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• Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Art, World, Predator

  Gilbert Sorrentino (1971). “Imaginative qualities of actual things”, Small PressDistribution

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• A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.

  Millard Drexler

  Two, Smell, Six

  "The Merchant". Interview with Nick Paumgarten, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Focus, Achievement, Effort

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.67, Random House

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• The normal cut in a theatrical film is anywhere from 3 to 6 seconds. That means thousands of images in a film over a couple of hours. In Visitors the cuts come every 70-plus seconds. The point of view is that the stiller one can be the more open to their senses they become. The whole world is quick right now. If things can be slowed down they stay in memory longer.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Couple, Memories, Mean

  "Interview: Godfrey Reggio Returns With the Breathtaking 4K Film 'Visitors'". Interview with Zachary Wigon, tribecafilm.com. January 24, 2014.

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• Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.

  Alex Shakar

  Beautiful, Running, Cities

  "Cities Are Beautiful Creatures; 10 Questions For Alex Shakar". Interview with Lindsey Drager, www.hobartpulp.com. October 1, 2011.

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• The evocative power of the drum can be compared to the Trinity. The drum's frame comes from the trunk of a tree, and that tree has a spirit. It is not dead wood. There is also spirit in the animal skin. If there wasn't, it would not produce sound. Those, plus the spirit of the person playing become an irresistible force.

  Babatunde Olatunji

  Animal, Tree, Skins

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• Eh. Hipster's not really a thing anymore. Plus, hipster or out of touch old dude? Same uniform really.

  Patrick Stump

  Hipster, Uniforms

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• We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points. This is not media consolidation in the traditional sense, where a few huge conglomerates used economies of scale to dominate journalism by dominating the local and national agendas. This consolidation, to a very few companies plus increasing government intervention, is even more dangerous - and information providers of all kinds are finally starting to grasp what’s happening.

  Dan Gillmor

  Moving, Government, Media

  "Dan Gillmor: 2012 will be the year of the content-controller oligopoly". www.niemanlab.org. December 20, 2011.

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• Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Weed, Stress, Marijuana

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• Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.

  Steve Israel

  Children, Support, Dollars

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• I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

  Janet Echelman

  Two, Landscape, Pay

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• English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

  Robert McCrum

  Communication, Mean, Microsoft

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• As consumers we get more demanding all the time. We want better quality. We want it faster. And cheaper. Plus, we want more choices. Whoever comes along that can satisfy all these 'wants' gets our business.

  Price Pritchett

  Business, Choices, Quality

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• Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it's harder to swing. Plus my feet hurt.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Hurt, Swings, Feet

  Wynton Marsalis, Carl Vigeland (2002). “Jazz In The Bittersweet Blues Of Life”, p.72, Da Capo Press

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• With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

  Alain Robert

  Rocks, Feelings, Elements

  Interview with Ard Arvin, www.buildering.net. June 4, 2006.

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• Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.

  Bill Bruford

  Bills, Fabulous, Drummer

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• Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Two, Giving, Mind Blowing

  Twitter post from Dec 7, 2011

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• Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Names, Substance, Form

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3705, Manonmani Publishers

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• We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taoism, Yang, Yes And No

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• I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.

  Larry Page

  Google, Followers, Millions

  "Larry Page's one-year anniversary as Google CEO". www.zdnet.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

  Alice Walker

  Kids, Facts, Trouble

  Alice Walker (1994). “The Complete Stories”

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• You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music I feel, concenctrate on the music, focus on what you're playing and let the playing come out. Once you start thinking about doing this or doing that, it's not good. What you are doing is like a language. You have a whole collection of musical ideas and thoughts that you've accumulated through your musical history plus all the musical history of the whole world and it's all in your subconscious and you draw upon it when you play

  Joe Pass

  Thinking, Player, Ideas

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• If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Crazy, Mean

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• The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in people and in travel; these things plus his precise feeling for geometrical relationships determine the type of pictures he takes best. What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently. A good picture must be a completely individual expression which intrigues the viewer and forces him to think.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Photography, Thinking, Expression

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• Cause I'm Black and I'm proud
  I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped
  Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

  Chuck D

  Hero, Hip Hop, Black

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

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