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• The gang may be a safer place than home, but it's not without its problems. In some instances, especially in the Latino community, the boys have very traditional views of femininity even though they are gang members. The girls can be [seen] as sexually available, but not the good girl that you want to take home to your family, even by young men in the gangs.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Girl, Home, Boys

  "Girls and Gangs". Interview with Lisa Wong Macabasco, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.

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• Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Technology, Automation, Ruts

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Peter Parker has superpowers, but he still has trouble making rent every month. I identify with that in a way that I don't with, like, Superman, for instance. He's just less interesting because he's too perfect.

  Timothy Miller

  Perfect, Interesting, Way

  Source: screenrant.com

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• There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own versions. A lot of the writing is my own, too. But if someone were to take each drawing and trace it back to its source, most of them could be traced back to a book or a text.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Book, Writing, Drawing

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

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• I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.

  Quentin Crisp

  Boys, Class, Faces

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• Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch

  Dean Cavanagh

  Ballet, Erotic, Mind

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• It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you're looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.

  Kareena Kapoor

  High Heels, Shoes, Add

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• Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

  David Hume

  Revenge, Praise, Cruelty

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• I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight... I know it’s not laziness, but respect for the work, and I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

  Stephen King

  Life Is Short, Haste Makes Waste, Years

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• I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

  Stephen King

  Haste Makes Waste, Years, Play

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• I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.

  Caitlin Rose

  Nashville, Towns, Energy

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• I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.

  Jonathan Glazer

  Risk, Musical, Ingredients

  "INTERVIEW: Shooting the “Beast”; Jonathan Glazer Tames the Gangster Genre". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2001.

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• After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia.

  Peter Mayhew

  Princess, Favourite, My Own

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• The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act.

  Frank Barron

  Creative, Common, Participation

  Frank Barron (1969). “Creative person and creative process”, Not Avail

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• The kids of those that came here illegally, those kids, I think, should have a pathway to become a permanent resident of the United States and military service, for instance, is one way they would have that kind of pathway to become a permanent resident.

  Mitt Romney

  Military, Kids, Thinking

  "This is What Obama and Romney Said About Immigration During the Hofstra Debate". abcnews.go.com. October 16, 2012.

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• When I opened up in "Gaslight," for instance, playing that narky maid, that all came about from my experience and my training up to that point, and so nothing was wasted.

  Angela Lansbury

  Training, Maids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Differences, Cities, Competition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The sanctions and travel restrictions would have to be far more comprehensive to be truly painful for [Vladimir] Putin and his inner circle. And the new middle class should also feel the effects of what he is doing. For instance, we should ask those who wish to enter the EU whether they have visited illegally occupied Crimea in the last few months and, if the answer is "yes," deny them a visa.

  Garry Kasparov

  Class, Circles, Wish

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hands, Giving, Independence

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• Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Sound, Daring

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• Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I'm pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine.

  Adam Sandler

  Guy, Tables, Nine

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• On the first page of the Bible there is an instance of how literalism is but an invitation to transcend the image to which literalism points. That first page is not geology, biology or paleontology; it is high religion. For there we are told who we are in terms of our constititutive text. And if we could understand that, we would worrying about whether the antelopes or the cantaloupes came in a certain order.

  Joseph Sittler

  Order, Worry, Firsts

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• As I get older, I recognize that my thinking about poetry may or
  may not have anything actively to do with my actual work as a
  poet. This strikes me as no thing cynically awry but rather
  seems again instance of that hapless or possibly happy fact,
  we do not as humans seem necessarily aware of what we are
  physically or psychically doing at all!

  Robert Creeley

  Thinking, Facts, May

  Robert Creeley (1979). “Was That a Real Poem & Other Essays”

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• As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our trouble. . . . No Catholic, for instance, takes seriously the text which says that a Bishop should be the husband of one wife.

  Bertrand Russell

  Husband, Rely Upon, Wife

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.90, Routledge

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• To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate - useful and actionable. It must somehow influence the way business gets done by improving a product, for instance, or by opening up a new way to approach a process.

  Teresa Amabile

  Ideas, Opening Up, Creative

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