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• Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back.

  Dave Grohl

  Girl, Thinking, Guitar

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• Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making decisions, being tall, taking out the garbage, tipping, fishing, being funny (on purpose), reading a map, listening to good bands, writing, running the country, inventing anything important, or being fun to hang out with.

  Daniel Tosh

  Country, Running, Fun

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• I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.

  Aisha Tyler

  Lying, Winning, Phones

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• Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional crutch, wishful thinking? The ax cuts both ways. Perhaps atheists are rejecting God because they've had a bad relationship with their father. Instead of inventing God, have atheists invented non-God? Have they invented atheism to escape some of the frightening implications of God's existence? Think about it.

  Greg Koukl

  Atheist, Father, Cutting

  "Is Atheism a Crutch?". str.typepad.com. March 24, 2010.

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• You know, when I was in love, I was always inventing things. A whole array of tricks, illusions and optical effects to amuse my lady friend. I think she'd had enough of my inventions by the end... I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real journey on earth.

  Mathias Malzieu

  Real, Moon, Journey

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• In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

  Mark Twain

  German Language, Awful, Toothache

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.148, Courier Corporation

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• I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.

  Miranda July

  Depressing, Way, Complicated

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

  Patricia Briggs

  Numbers, People, Nightmare

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.109, Penguin

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• The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem of inventing for oneself a liberalism according to one's own tastes and passing it off as an evolution from past ideas.

  Ralph Raico

  Philosophy, Past, Ideas

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• She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Beautiful, Book, Facts

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.

  Isaac

  Punishment, Hell, Should

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• You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

  Humphrey Carpenter

  Stars, Moving, Ideas

  Humphrey Carpenter (1977). “Tolkien: A Biography”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Country, Men, America

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• Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

  Ray Dolby

  Skills, People, Invention

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• It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains, which he himself could never hope to hear.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Talking, Piano

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• I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature and function. As I have tried to suggest, utopia is not mainly about providing detailed blueprints for social reconstruction. Its concern with ends is about making us think about possible worlds. It is about inventing and imagining worlds for our contemplation and delight. It opens up our minds to the possibilities of the human condition.

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger

  Thinking, Names, Mind

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• I had always dared to dream large, but even this black kid~ez_rsquo~s imagination could not have come close to inventing the storybook success that I have enjoyed in the nearly thirty years I`ve worked in this medium I adore.

  Kevin Clash

  Dream, Kids, Years

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• Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Hands, Childhood

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• At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Cutting, Dedication

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• It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.

  Rupert Hart-Davis

  Writing, Pleasure, Splendid

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• One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.

  Judith Martin

  Emotional, Ties, People

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.

  Elmer Bernstein

  Ideas, Working Now, Composer

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• One shouldn’t believe in all those so-called innovations. There is only one nature and only one way to see it. Nowadays, they want to succeed too fast, this is how they go about inventing new aesthetics, pointillism, pipisme! All this is just to make noise.

  William-Adolphe Bouguereau

  Believe, Innovation, Want

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• There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood ...in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.

  Raj Patel

  Real, Book, Years

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• You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

  Harry Mathews

  Giving Up, Giving

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