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• One of the main reasons I wrote The Sleep Revolution was to examine this ancient, essential, and mysterious phenomenon from all angles and to explore the ways we can use sleep to help regain control over our out-of-kilter lives.

  Arianna Huffington

  Sleep, Revolution, Helping

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Anonymity was nothing more than me wanting to make it about the music and not necessarily the image. Of course, you realize later that by going anonymous, there is an image, and it's mysterious. So that kind of backfired. But it also worked to my advantage, since it certainly got people's attention.

  Mister Lies

  Attention, Kind, Realizing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Whether they're ghosts of great writers or people I loved - some died because of AIDS, others under mysterious circumstances - I don't want to forget these people, ever. That's very much a part of my still being alive - to remember those who aren't here anymore.

  Lynne Tillman

  People, Ghost, Remember

  Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

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• From Marilyn Monroe and beyond, that's a huge part of Hollywood, creating a persona that's mysterious and fairly simple, though it's interesting how that's changing: Now, you have fans who are like, "Um, yeah, I just emailed with Barack Obama and tweeted with Lady Gaga, so I'm kinda right there with you; give it to me."

  Rosario Dawson

  Simple, Giving, Interesting

  "Rosario Dawson Acts Up". Interview With Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2011.

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• Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Animal, Bird

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• There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Dream, Communication, Men

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.50, Verso

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• Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Differences, Principles

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.340, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Moving, Humor

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.565, Library of America

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• What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

  Nellie Bly

  Mysterious Things, Silence, Forever

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.82, Golgotha Press

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• The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Strong, Moving, Prejudice

  "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli: Faith Is the Only Way Forward". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. November 28, 2011.

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• No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Eye, Vision, Mystery

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• People fall in love for mysterious reasons.

  Jeff Bridges

  Falling In Love, People, Reason

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• Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Elements, Mystery, Virtue

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• The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

  Nick Cave

  Hero, Needs, Information

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• Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

  Leonard Cohen

  Grace, Way, Discouraged

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• Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

  Sheryl Crow

  Hero, Dirty, Naughty

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• There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.

  Paul Dirac

  Atoms, World, Opinion

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• I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.

  David Duchovny

  Mean, Acting, Chemistry

  "David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Interview - THE X-FILES: I Want to Believe". Press conference, collider.com. July 22, 2008.

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• There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Religious, Men, Hands

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.

  Brian Eno

  People, Records, Bother

  "The 77 Million Faces of Brian Eno". Interview with Andrew Marantz, www.motherjones.com. November 12, 2012.

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• He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Courage, Strong

  "The Christian Herald", Vol. 92, p. 72, 1969.

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• Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Fashion, Blue, Jeans

  "Diane von Furstenberg On Wrap Dresses And The Joys Of Aging Gracefully". Interview with Amanda Christine Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

  Alison Gopnik

  Baby, Children, Childhood

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• I think with vampires, you can't really go wrong. For generations, vampires have been a hit because they're unobtainable, mysterious, sensual, dangerous, kind of sexy.

  Ashley Greene

  Sexy, Thinking, Sensual

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• I think girls like vampires because they are mysterious and they really don't know what they are about. I think a lot of girls are attracted to that.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Girl, Thinking, Vampire

  "Josh Hutcherson Dishes on the Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 21, 2009.

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