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• I just don't really listen to music. I'm probably missing out, but I don't want to know what everybody else is doing. Nobody is strong enough to not be influenced. And I don't mean influenced by copying - I'd be influenced because I wouldn't want to do what someone else is doing. I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything.

  Fiona Apple

  Strong, Mean, Worry

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We're missing a lot of the real-life stories of what people's work looks like. Those are the people that I want sitting on the zoning board meetings, on the zoning commissions. Those are the people I want participating in business improvement in their own industry. The gentrification processes that often happen in cities so often manifest in street sweeps of sex workers. How do you get sex workers on neighborhood associations, regarded as members of the neighborhood?

  Melissa Gira Grant

  People, Improvement, Life Story

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Being by myself, that is to say, without a man - it's been a long time - is allowing me to know what it feels like - to live in my own skin, to remember what I miss and don't miss about a relationship.

  Jane Fonda

  Men, Long, Skins

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I'll tell you that the dog whistle politics is badly missing the mark. Because, you know, as I've been speaking about it, sure, I've got some racists who come and complain about it. That happens. Right? But I have been absolutely overwhelmed - absolutely overwhelmed - by the number of everyday people who have contacted me with one simple question: what can I do to help?

  Naheed Nenshi

  Dog, Simple, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In an era where digital or virtual is the default, the actual coming together into a physical space has to be an experience that you don't want to miss.

  Charlotte Cotton

  Together

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Photography was increasingly being seen as something outside the art world. As a sort of illustration. They just fired the director of photography at the Sunday Times Magazine - that's where everyone went with their photo essays in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. It was the place to get published. It is an issue. And I feel it. There's no budget. The budget-holders are very often people who've been to the professional colleges where art is not taught. So art as a part of education is something that's missing - since Thatcher's day, anyway.

  Stuart Franklin

  Photography, Art, Sunday

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The hardest stories we tell are always about ourselves. How do you explain that you have been missing your mother for 20 years? I don't know how to explain that to you. I wasn't even sure I wanted to film that, because I don't know how I felt about it. I didn't want to put her through it, and I frankly wasn't ready. Because since I was 16, I just had created my own life for myself, you know? I left when I was 12. I'm 32. And I have gotten to know my mother more through editing her and looking and watching and editing her footage, you know.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Mother, Film

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.

  Saffron Burrows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Israel legendary foreign minister, Abba Eban, used to say that the Palestinians had never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

  Ehud Barak

  Opportunity, Legendary, Palestinian

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I can't work without a Good L.A. weed. That's the thing you miss the most.

  Flying Lotus

  Weed

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Often people who live through the trauma are nostalgic when it's over. When I went back to Bosnia 20 years after the brutal civil war, even people who had been badly wounded told me they missed those times. They were missing their more courageous selves.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, People, Courageous

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• If I was a person that felt success is money, and for some people it is, I won't yuck someone's yum - if that's your thing, that's your thing. Go for it. Make as much money as you can. I don't care. Not my thing. My thing is something else. So I don't miss that. At all. Who needs it? How much money do you really need?

  Joss Stone

  People, Care

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• The best advice I've got was - "All you have is the process. All you have is the journey of making something. Once you're done you have absolutely no control on how it's received, or if people like it or hate it, or what is done with it. As long as you enjoy the process, then you'll always be happy." I really feel like that's important advice. Sometimes we get so focused on the results that we miss doing it - we miss the adventure of being in the midst of something because we're looking too far ahead.

  A Fine Frenzy

  Hate, Adventure, Journey

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• From Richard Holbrooke - and I miss him every day - I learned two things. One, prioritization: Never take your eye off the longer-term reforms. The other thing is, he was a hell of a schmoozer! So I should take advantage of my Irish love of beer and gift of the gab, and build relationships. That's a cherished part of the job, asking someone, "How did you get to be the Rwandan ambassador?" I try to take advantage of the fact that I hope to be here at least until the president's term ends getting to know my colleagues.

  Samantha Power

  Eye, Beer, Trying

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• People watch more documentaries too now. These movies that would normally be shown in these little art houses, and unless you walked by the theater, or happened to read that tiny zine that contained the info for it, or went to a film festival, you might miss it.

  Rosario Dawson

  Art, People, House

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• I see things in hardcopy that I miss if I only see words on screen. I do get sick of the words, but I like to see everything spread out because I get a sense of scale that is missing from screen. Going over each sentence many, many, many times gives me incredible intimacy with sentences, especially their rhythm. The rhythm and music of words matter a lot to me and it only takes one misplaced word to spoil the music.

  Myriam Gurba

  Giving, Sick, Incredibles

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• I keep telling my American friends, "If you think of Donald Trump as only something that is happening inside the United States, you're missing it." Because there are Trump-like events happening across the Western world, in Warsaw Pact countries, in France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands. As we speak, the second-largest party in the Dutch legislature - who's more level-headed than the Dutch? - is Geert Wilders's party, which is a very Trump-like party, and they've got 33 out of 150 seats.

  David Frum

  Country, Party, Thinking

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• Before I published my first book, I worked for a while as a documentary and wedding/bar mitzvah videographer, and a part of me still mourns the lost filmmaker I'll never be. Working on a documentary is nearly the opposite artistic process to writing: as a writer you are always trying to fill out a world to fit your story, but as a documentarian your work is to carve a story out of the world. Sometimes, when I'm feeling particularly blocked at my computer, I miss the days when I could just point my camera at something interesting and wait to see what happens.

  Stefan Merrill Block

  Book, Writing, Interesting

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• No matter where I went, there was someone rejecting my ideology. What was interesting was these reactions made me want to do it even more because we had smoothed over that void, smoothed over what was missing. After all, our motto was, "A happy face, a thumping bass, for a loving race."

  Jazzie B

  Interesting, Motto, Ideology

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• I have the best friends in the world. I miss my friends, I miss my family but they always come out and visit me. I went to boarding school in the country so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 - it was insane.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Country, Real, School

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• A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Teamwork, Player, Games

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• You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Crazy, School, Years

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• He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Perseverance, Self Improvement, Waste

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• A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

  Tori Amos

  Missing You, Husband, Keys

  "Tori Amos: My family values". Interview with Jamie Tabberer, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away.

  Tori Amos

  Husband, Mean, Keys

  "Tori Amos: 'Anything is easier to talk about in music than in conversation'". Interview with Tim Teeman, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2013.

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