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• Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

  Jet Li

  Art, Wife, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by any stretch of the imagination and aren't any rules, but there are principles. The first one is that art is a process, not a product. In fact, that holds true for damn near everything we do in life. The product is just something that happens. If you're faithful to the process, the product takes care of itself.

  Andy Wilkinson

  Art, Writing, Imagination

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• The master and the student on the journey to mastery, knows that the illusions are the illusions, decides why they are there, and then consciously creates what will be experienced next within the self through the illusions. When facing any life experience, there is a formula, a process, through which you may choose to move through mastery. Simply make the following statements: One, nothing in my world is real. Two, The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it. Three, I am who I say I am, and my experience is what I say it is. This is how to work with the illusions of life.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Real, Moving

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• It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

  Mario Andretti

  Motivational, Thinking, Nascar Racing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The first presidential veto, by George Washington, was a veto of Alexander Hamilton's formula for apportioning the House, and the one that Washington preferred was one that Thomas Jefferson produced, and that was one partisan issue. The apportionment formula that Jefferson produced gave an extra seat to Virginia. Everybody knew what that game was. Look, partisan interest in the census is simply nothing new.

  Kenneth Prewitt

  Virginia, Games, Issues

  "Census, Uncensored". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. June 26, 2009.

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• The one thing I will say is management is management. Culture is culture. You have to have a formula for those things. You have to believe in what you do and how you do it, but then you go to different environments and you have to be willing to adapt. You have to be willing to tweak things based on where you are.

  Pete Lembo

  Believe, Different, Culture

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Inspiration, Growing

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.574, George Eliot

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• It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn't in the mood to smile.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Lying, Boys, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That's what drives the academics crazy. They can compute standard deviations and betas, but they can't understand moats.

  Warren Buffett

  Crazy, Feet, Moats

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• Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Happiness, Freedom, Meditation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2001). “Freedom, Love, and Action”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Law, Tables, Stones

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1831). “Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: Illustrated by Select Passages from Our Elder Divines, Especially from Archbishop Leighton”, p.16

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• Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And, yes, the formula isn't perfect yet. We don't all have that. But we're trying.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Perfect, Trying

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.

  Brian Regan

  Uncomfortable Situations, Laughing, Tragedy

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• The history of colonialism is long and bloody. And it continues today, in the shape of Western arrogance vis-à-vis everyone else. "Us against the rest of the world" is the formula that drives the West.

  Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

  Long, Arrogance, Colonialism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I always wore cowboy boots and drove a truck, and talked like this. So everywhere I would go in comedy people would say, "Foxworthy, you ain't nothing but a redneck from Georgia!" It kind of became a formula joke.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Cowboy, People

  "We Interviewed Jeff Foxworthy | Show at Redfest". Do512 Interview, 2017.do512.com.

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• My formula for success is just a lot of hard work. It's believing in yourself. It's a pride that I gotta get better at something every time I wake up.

  Kevin Ollie

  Believe, Hard Work, Pride

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Eating out doesn't have to be a formula. Eating out is about having fun. I get really frustrated when it's badly done.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Fun, Frustrated, Done

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I came here with the perfect chemist's perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nba, Perfect

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• I've read that same formula, but as an athlete I'm classified as phenomenal. You could look it up.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Athlete, Looks

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• A talk show is difficult because the formula is always the same: there's a host and there's guests. Really what you can change is only so much. So, I don't have any pre-interviews, which forces real conversation.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Real, Guests, Interviews

  "Jenny McCarthy Breaks Down Her New Talk Show". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• I like to try anything... You have to do the experiments to find out what the formulas are.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Trying, Experiments

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• To be fair to Pete, I had just come off a very difficult owner relationship with my then head coach and I was looking for a different style. So I didn't give Pete all the power he should have had. I don't think there's any exact formula for how it's done. It's really what fits each individual system.

  Robert Kraft

  Thinking, Should Have, Nfl

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• Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work.

  Shawn Achor

  Mean, Successful, Goal

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• There's no real formula for doing it, it's either just living life and writing down a joke you think of in the middle of the day and then pieces those together later.

  Jeff Dunham

  Real, Live Life, Writing

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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