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• Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so much greater than they are; it offers an environment where they can easily contemplate infinity and eternity.

  Richard Louv

  Beautiful, Nature, Games

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.

  Margaret Mead

  Business, Men, Artist

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• Tobacco, in its various forms, is one of the most mischievous of all drugs. There is perhaps no other drug which injures the body in so many ways and so universally as does tobacco. Some drugs offer a small degree of compensation for the evil effects which they produce; but tobacco has not a single redeeming feature and gives nothing in return.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Evil, Giving

  John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”

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• What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Light, Order

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight. I do not believe that I am alone in this - a fascination with words is shared by people in all countries and all walks of life.

  George Armitage Miller

  Country, Believe, Science

  "The Science of Words". Book by George Armitage Miller (Preface, p. 7), 1991.

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• And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.

  Rene Descartes

  Life, World, Might

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• I've had to learn how to say 'no' to offers.

  Jessica Chastain

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• The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

  Colin Farrell

  Country, Sea, Survivor

  "Interview: Colin Farrell and Neil Jordan on Ondine". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2010.

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• I would be delighted to show my film in the Viennale. I do not offer press kits. I do not offer stills. I do not offer screeners. I do not offer DVD's. I do not offer posters. I require a first-class flight to bring the print however I do not offer any photo ops or press exchange in any way. My fee for showing my film is $35,000 dollars US.

  Vincent Gallo

  Dvds, Class, Dollars

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• I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Writing, Scott Fitzgerald, Way

  "Garrett Hedlund: 'Life is fun when you're in motion'". Interview With Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant?

  Tom Hardy

  Thinking, Style, Alive

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• I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40.

  Amy Irving

  New Beginnings, Careers, Feelings

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• Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

  Michael Imperioli

  Unique, Cities, Numbers

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• I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Mean, Matter, Knows

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

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• When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.

  Denise Juneau

  Road To Success, Educated

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• I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

  Sebastian Junger

  Real, Thinking, Bridges

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• I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Mistake, People, Cameras

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• It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

  Toby Jones

  Cities, Culture, London

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

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• India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

  Anil Kapoor

  Purity And Innocence, India, Want

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Obvious Things, Directors, Different

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. Ocotber 11, 2007.

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• My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

  Mary MacLane

  Desire, Goes On, Lectures

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• As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.

  Navid Negahban

  Waiting, Actors, Agents

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• Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

  Sam Neill

  Actors, Want, Busy

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• I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in a Clinton candidacy or whether she really is something unique and has something to offer apart from her husband.

  Barbara Olson

  Husband, Unique, Thinking

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• If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

  Kevin Pollak

  Real, Actors, Ability

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