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• I want to be more like Pixie Lott. She works really hard but always manages to keep smiling. She never complains.

  Ellie Goulding

  Keep Smiling, Complaining, Want

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

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• If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.

  Woody Harrelson

  Cutting, Oil, Forests

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• It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Art, Children, Practice

  "Easy does it" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 01, 2005.

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• I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Trying, Directors, Way

  "Anthony Hopkins: 'I've never been really close to anyone'". Interview With John Crace, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.

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• I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Aspect, Tedious, Hard

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• God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

  King Hussein I

  Believe, Ideas, Soul

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• The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

  Steve Jobs

  Two, Long, Going Away

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.

  Jay-Z

  Artist, Opportunity, Careers

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• If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Humble, People, Would Be

  John Maynard Keynes (1952). “Essays in Persuasion”

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• Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

  Anne Lamott

  Grace, This Life, Owners

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• All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Struggle, Rely Upon, Survival

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• The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Political, Challenges, World

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• The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Government, Skills

  "Joe Lhota: The Daily News Sitdown". Interview with Celeste Katz, www.nydailynews.com. January 18, 2013.

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• I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Careers, Hell, Stains

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• We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Past, Numbers, Cnn

  "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.

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• Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Change, Success, Philosophical

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• When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

  Dave Matthews

  Simple, Way, My Favorite

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• It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

  Guy de Maupassant

  People, Unhappy, Unhappy Marriage

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• Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

  Brian McDermott

  Trying, Looks, Answers

  "Brian McDermott has retained his beliefs despite dark times at Leeds" by Andy Wilson, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

  Ian Mcewan

  Religious, Regret, Errors

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• I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Home, Two

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• I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought.

  Robert Pattinson

  Pockets, Hot, Lows

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• It is up to us, to this present generation of Americans, to take a stand for freedom, to send a message to Washington that we're taking our future back from the grips of central planners who would control our healthcare, who would spend our treasure, who downgrade our future and micro-manage our lives.

  Rick Perry

  Generations, Treasure, Messages

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

  Anna Quindlen

  Girl, Wisdom, Boys

  "The Good Guys". The New York Times Opinion Page, www.nytimes.com. April 11, 1993.

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• We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Responsibility, Guy, Challenges

  "Ryan Reynolds: ‘I Have Daddy Issues’". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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