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• Cornering is like bringing a woman to a climax. Both you and the car must work together. You start to enter the area of excitement at the corner, you set up a pace which is right for the car and after you've told it it is coming along with you, you guide it along at a rhythm which has by now become natural. Only after you've cleared the corner you can both take pleasure in knowing it's gone well.

  Jackie Stewart

  Knowing, Car, Working Together

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• You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever.

  Jay-Z

  Girl, Forever, Turns

  Song: Here Without You, Album: HOV 3D

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• I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

  R. C. Sproul

  Football, College, Church

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• I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Long, Evil, Mind

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The book of snobs; and Sketches and travels in London”, p.2

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• When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

  Mark Twain

  Numbers, People, Different

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 13, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can find that alchemy that turns lead into gold, find that magic where you can see the loss as an entry point for learning and grow from it and become wiser and stronger.

  Jillian Michaels

  Loss, Ideas, Two

  Source: movieweb.com

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• It's a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn't have gone on with it.

  Mick Jagger

  Real, People, Fool

  "Jagger Remembers: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.mickjagger.com. December 14, 1995.

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• I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking of true, stubborn, lifetime black-and-white photographers, as opposed to black-and-white as a photographic commodity.

  Hedi Slimane

  Teenage, Black And White, Thinking

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

  Paul Theroux

  Rhinos, Culture, Pessimistic

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.

  Paul Theroux

  Rhinos, People, Chinese

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Deep down within anyone there's a flame that maybe had gone dormant that can be fanned or ignited in case it had blown out. This is the flame of curiosity, the flame of wonder, of awe, of all the things that make you want to learn something more tomorrow than you knew today.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Flames, Curiosity, Today

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Past, Thinking

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• I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Believe, Gone Away, Sound

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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• I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.It evolves, your taste. It sometimes deepens, in terms of what's out; sometimes it's not as deep in terms of what's out. So it's definitely an evolution. I don't ever claim to be a hip-hop head.

  Solange Knowles

  Differences, Hip Hop, Taste

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

  Toni Morrison

  Racism, People, Moments

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.

  Bell Hooks

  Powerful, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October, 2006.

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• It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot have gone on to become musicians and artists in their own right who inspire me now.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Crazy, Kids, Artist

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• Most of what I want to try to do is continue to go places with fiction that I've never gone before, and tell stories I've never told before, and one of the problems you rapidly discover about fans is what fans want is the last thing they liked. They want more of that.

  Neil Gaiman

  Trying, Fans, Fiction

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• American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.

  Bill Gates

  Oil, Crisis, Various

  "Bill Gates On The Future Of American Energy". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 13, 2010.

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• There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Library, Overcoming, Owners

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Komarr”, p.63, Baen Books

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• O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!

  William Shakespeare

  Generosity, Giving, World

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “Hamlet. Timon of Athens”, p.355

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• Thursday come, and the week's gone.

  George Herbert

  Thursday, Week

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.344

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• If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Painful Experiences, Painful, Ifs

  "8 Celebrities On Dealing With Their ‘Awkward Phase’" By Amanda Scherker, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2015.

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• My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.

  Larry Towell

  Tired, Years, Wife

  "10 Photographers Share ‘An Image That Changed Everything’ And The Stories Behind Them" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.

  Ronda Rousey

  Struggle, Frustration, Talking

  Ronda Rousey (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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