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• I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It's like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from people, 'I think you try too hard in your comedy.' And that's what I worry about.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, People, Worry

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• I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Confused, Boundaries, Genre

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• We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.

  Li Ka-shing

  Ideas, Age, World

  Bloomberg Markets Interview, www.lksf.org. December 22, 2002.

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• I have seen everything possible covered in studs and grommets. Also, what I call angry shoes: those platforms with the multiple buckles and studs. I think the polished girl is back.

  Nina Garcia

  Girl, Thinking, Shoes

  "Nina Garcia So Over ‘Angry Shoes,’ Says ‘Polished Girl Is Back’", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2010.

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• The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be able to have multiple “first” things.

  Greg McKeown

  Reality, Talking, Years

  "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 15, 2014.

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• Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, School, Thinking

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son" by Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2009.

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• If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

  Steve Jobs

  College, Stanford University, Years

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Two reasons I come down here every year: the food and there are multiple guys here every year.

  Mike Tomlin

  Lsu, Years, Two

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• I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.

  Matthew Lillard

  Drama, Character, Layers

  "Matthew Lillard Talks the Bridge Season 2, His Favorite Aspect of the Character, the Scream Tv Show, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 20, 2014.

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• The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms of large-scale integration that counterbalance the distributed anatomical and functional organization of brain activity to enable the emergence of coherent behaviour and cognition. Although the mechanisms involved in large-scale integration are still largely unknown, we argue that the most plausible candidate is the formation of dynamic links mediated by synchrony over multiple frequency bands.

  Francisco Varela

  Organization, Brain, Behaviour

  "The brainweb: phase synchronization and large-scale integration", Nature Rviews Vol 2, p. 229, 2001.

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• Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.

  George Dantzig

  Real, Mean, Men

  "Reminiscences about the origins of linear programming" by George Dantzig, Mathematical programming: the state of the art, p. 78-86, 1983.

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• The hamadryas baboon is a harem holder where one male mates with multiple females.

  Frans de Waal

  Males, Female, Baboons

  "Frans de Waal on Politics, Fairness, and Human Nature". Interview with Eric Michael Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2011.

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• What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that.

  Wyclef Jean

  Crazy, Feet, People

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• I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.

  Bing Gordon

  Views, Point Of View, Believer

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• Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspond to some need and satisfy some deep desire in mankind; still, for the Inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Divine Guidance, Government, Organization

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.719, Library of America

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• When we are forced to do multiple things at once, not only do we perform worse on all of them but our memory decreases and our general well-being suffers a palpable hit.

  Maria Konnikova

  Memories, Stress, Suffering

  Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books

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• And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.

  Darl McBride

  Language, Royalty, Programming

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• Some will tell you that there are multiple worldviews. The Bible says we have only 2: the Truth and the Lie.

  Mark Driscoll

  Lying, Worldview

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• The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter of being coy, or withholding information. It's allowing for multiple possibilities, recognizing the complexity of human behavior, and making the world of a piece of fiction as marvelously confounding as the world we live in.

  Peter Turchi

  Writing, Keys, Fiction

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• A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song.

  Martin Scorsese

  Song, Reading, America

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• I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city

  Sufjan Stevens

  Beach, New York, Powerful

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song is measured. I like to diversify, that there are multiple versions of every song. And the songs incorporate a lot of improvisation, and an element of chance, and I think that's exciting. There's no one true formulation of a song, they have various manifestations depending on the space we're in. I like that.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Song, Thinking, Space

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I shall argue that the problem of grace is fundamentally a problem of integration and what is to be integrated is the diverse parts of the mind - especially those multiple levels of which one extreme is called 'consciousness' and the other the 'unconscious'

  Gregory Bateson

  Grace, Mind, Levels

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.129, University of Chicago Press

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• I actually cried during 'Titanic.' It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.

  Jason Earles

  Theater, Cried

  Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 17, 2019.

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• I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant.

  Joe Jonas

  Writing, Roles, Want

  "Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas: Can They Still be Friends?". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. June 27, 2010.

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