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• Lists are a form of power.

  A. S. Byatt

  Form

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• We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

  Umberto Eco

  Clever, Laundry, Enough

  Umberto Eco (2001). “Foucault's Pendulum”, Random House

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• I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

  Billy Wilder

  Movie, Great Year, Hollywood Films

  Billy Wilder (1999). “Sunset Boulevard”, p.22, Univ of California Press

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• You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in the first 1,000.

  Chris Waddle

  Thinking, League, Firsts

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• Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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• If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Happiness, Baseball

  Yogi: It Ain't Over (1989)

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• To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.

  Eric Stoltz

  Scratches, My Favorite, Scene

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• I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them.

  Freema Agyeman

  Sticks

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• There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.

  Robert Breault

  Excuse, Reason, Sufficient

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• Americans around the country who came forward to make my 'bucket list' dream come true.

  Brittany Maynard

  Dream, Country, Buckets

  " Brittany Maynard's bucket list beckons her to Grand Canyon" by Bill Briggs, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Of course, there are questions that plague all of us. How did we get here? What happens when we die? Is there a heaven? Am I on the list? Who let the dogs out?

  Bill Maher

  Dog, Heaven, Plague

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• We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog, or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board. They are divine counsel, based on eternal truths.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Ideas, Long, Boards

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• Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.

  Anna Quindlen

  Running, Teacher, Rap

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.111, Ballantine Books

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• I really want to work with Tom Hardy. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are also on my list. Those are my top three actors. As far as actresses go, Kate Beckinsale, because she's so smokin' hot.

  Ryan Guzman

  Christian, Hot, Three

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

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• Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a handful of politicized ministers. Such organizations were better at issuing press releases than doing the hard work of political mobilization and advocacy. By contrast, the movement of the 1990s has generated a plethora of grass-roots organizations that allocate meaningful responsibilities to individual members. The goal is to create an army of grassroots activists who know how to stimulate political change.

  Kenneth D. Wald

  Christian, Meaningful, Hard Work

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• Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework. It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can benefit from reading this book, because it's really any and all of us.

  Michael N. Nagler

  Book, Communication, Reading

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• The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

  David Mamet

  Directors, Scripts, Shots

  David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

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• Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.

  Dick Cavett

  "Here's the Thing" with Alec Baldwin, www.wnyc.org. February 27, 2012.

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• I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read Little House on the Prairie when he was in third grade.

  Jon Scieszka

  Girl, Reading, School

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• I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

  Rick Moody

  Trying, Stuff, Made

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• I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Sleep, People, Car

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• I like the Kardashians, but I do keep them on the top of my prayer list.

  Tamar Braxton

  Prayer

  "Tamar Braxton Talks Spin-Off, Kim Kardashian" by Rob Shuter, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2012.

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• If you take a walk around Ouagadougou and make a list of the mansions you see, you will note that they belong to just a minority. How many of you who have been assigned to Ouagadougou from the farthest corners of the country have had to move every night because you've been thrown out of the house you have rented? To those who have acquired houses and land through corruption we say: start to tremble. If you have stolen, tremble, because we will come after you

  Thomas Sankara

  Country, Moving, Night

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• In all, dozens upon dozens of groups and organizations have prioritized stopping the killing in Darfur before there is no one left to be killed. It is high time that we, the U.S. Congress, join our name to that list.

  Kendrick Meek

  Names, Organization, Groups

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• All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

  Stephen Leacock

  Education, Yesterday, Needs

  Stephen Leacock (1939). “Too Much College; Or, Education Eating Up Life: With Kindred Essays in Education and Hummour”, New York : Dodd, Mead

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