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• When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.

  Arabella Weir

  Class, Goal, Priorities

  "Once Upon A Life: Arabella Weir" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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• I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

  Kristen Wiig

  Blood, Terrible, Surgeons

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

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• I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

  Kate Winslet

  Kids, Race, Achieve

  "Kate Winslet: Your #1 Most Glam". Interview with Skip Hollandsworth, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2011.

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• I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Simple

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• There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Islamic, Ira, Movement

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• I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, Names, People

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Rights, People, Trying

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• Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Ideas, People, Goal

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• Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists, dependent upon what they call the, quote, 'hits.' What's commercially viable gets recycled, endlessly repeated, and as a result of that, the progressive music can't break in.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Play, Labels, Records

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• You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems.

  Helen Fisher

  Falling In Love, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Sharing The Good Life". Prezi Inc., prezi.com. November 15, 2013.

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• I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Numbers, Fans, Three

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• For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Strong, Issues, Wikipedia

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• The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Updates, Hours, Profile

  "Does Facebook really care about you?" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Grace, Way, Upside Down

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• Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books spine, grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered spieces list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Easter, Book, Angel

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

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• She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Dark, Thinking

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• My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.

  Philip K. Dick

  Self, Schedules, Today

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, School, Optimistic

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• Make a list of all the lovers you've ever had. Warren Lasher Ed "Rubberhead" Catapano Charles Deats or Keats Alfonse Tuck it in your pocket. Leave it lying around, conspicuously. Somehow you lose it. Make "mislaid" jokes to yourself. Make another list.

  Lorrie Moore

  Lying, Pockets, Lovers

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.539, Faber & Faber

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• I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I? Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I've forgot, Please stick them in you eye!

  Shel Silverstein

  Goodbye, Kindness, Eye

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• Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I’d done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.

  Clive Barker

  Regret, Too Late, Done

  Clive Barker (2010). “Galilee”, p.55, HarperCollins UK

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• We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Cities, People, Pockets

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in the externals, shows you that strength and hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things, but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even if it's painful and you're afraid.

  Caroline Knapp

  Simple, Thinking, Long

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.108, Dial Press

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• I'm just running through this list of potential nannies and wondered if we should go for a superhero this time. Do you think Wolverine would be interested? He seems to be on every other team right now.

  Mark Millar

  Running, Team, Thinking

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• Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.

  Douglas Coupland

  Taken, Thieves, Rust

  "Hey Nostradamus!". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2003.

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