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• Definitely the biggest misconception is that it is overly burdensome to be a woman and pursue this line of work. But being a woman gives me a unique perspective and style, which is probably why I get the work that I do.

  Reed Morano

  Unique, Giving, Perspective

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.

  David Byrne

  Song, Writing, Character

  "Byrne, Baby, Byrne". Interview with Michael Archer, www.guernicamag.com. April 15, 2010.

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• I believe that you can experience very profound moments of change in life...I never would have become an actress if I hadn't dropped out of high school. As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17 so I could find my voice as an actress and eventually the profession embraced me.

  Halle Berry

  Dream, Life Changing, Teenager

  "Halle Berry Interview – Cloud Atlas – 'As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17…'". "Viva Press" Interview, www.viva-press.com.

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• I was an actor when I was a teenager and it could have been the direction that I headed in. But music and my relationship with music is quite deep, and it really is the nucleus of my creativity. So I gave up acting so I could pursue music fully, and I never thought about really going back. And then [director] Lee Daniels met me and wanted to work with me, and that's how it started.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Teenager, Creativity, Acting

  "Lenny Kravitz Shares His Acting 'Hunger'". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. November 20, 2013.

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• If you've got a good idea and you're willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it, keep your head up and eyes open because you don't know when opportunity will come knocking.

  Paula Deen

  Eye, Opportunity, Ideas

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• If every man and woman were to take the meaning of their life and pursue it passionately, they would alter the social landscape overnight. In fact, that's how lasting revolutions are made- not by the raised arm of the masses, not by the military seizure of power, not by the political coup d'etat, but by individuals asserting who they are one at a time.

  Richard Bode

  Military, Men, Political

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• Whoever has the desire to pursue philosophy correctly should look to Nature's Archetype in every matter, so that by taking up Ariadne's thread in her intricate labyrinth he may keep himself safe and secure from wrong turns and deviant paths.

  Athanasius Kircher

  Philosophy, Labyrinth, Desire

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• People are less than whole unless they gather themselves voluntarily into groups of souls in harmony. Gathering themselves to pursue individual, family, and community dreams consistent with their private humanity is what makes them whole; only slaves are gathered by others.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Dream, People, Community

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.59, New Society Publishers

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• After 100 years of trying, finally we passed health care for all Americans as a right for all - not just a privilege for a few. It honored the vows of our Founders: Of life, a healthier life; liberty; the freedom to pursue our own happinesses. ... We knew that ... this bill was ironclad constitutionally.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Years, Trying, Liberty

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• Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact, specific marketing advice can sometimes harm the novice poet by enticing him to pursue fashions. The poet's best hope is to sound like nobody else, The finest, most enduring poetry constructs a marketplace of its own.

  X. J. Kennedy

  Fashion, Mistake, Writing

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• That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it comes to acting, writing, comedy, nobody ever stops you.

  Adam Carolla

  Sports, Dream, Writing

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Let your *need* guide you behavior. *Supress* your instinct to lead... Pursue Rabbit!

  Cheshire Cat

  Rabbits, Needs, Behavior

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• The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it?

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Crush, Dream, Effort

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• The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

  Confucius

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission.

  Gerhard Richter

  Style, Intention, Program

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• Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.

  James D. Watson

  Mind, Gathering, Horizon

  James D. Watson (2007). “Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science”, p.324, OUP Oxford

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• I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Age, Acting, Actors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There are people I'm drawn to that you just can't do a tiny, no-budget movie with. I would like to pursue some of that stuff, to see if I could do a movie with some of those people. And I don't really write scripts myself, but if I read a script I thought was really great, I would totally be up for doing a more traditional movie. It's just that I don't exist in that world.
  right now.

  Joe Swanberg

  Writing, People, World

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Unfortunately, every time the United States has tried to pursue a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians by beating back Iran and trying to isolate Iran, it has failed. And it has failed under much better circumstances.

  Trita Parsi

  Iran, Trying, United States

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There are pedosexuals who, even if the court forces them to go into treatment, do not pursue it or cannot pursue it.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Treatment, Court, Force

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's wrong to focus only on economic cooperation and then to hope that a sufficiently stable system will become democratic more or less by itself. The EU needs to urge its neighbors to pursue both economic stability and political modernization in equal measures.

  Alvaro de Vasconcelos

  Focus, Political, Needs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't want anybody to accuse me of taking advantage of the situation to pursue a particular political agenda.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Political, Agendas, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The world is a big place, and there are many paths that lead to success. This applies to both political and economic concepts. For this reason, we see no need to stoically pursue the Chinese, American or French way. But we have socialism in common with China.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Political, Chinese, Needs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don’t want to achieve my dream. I just want to pursue my dream until I die.

  Taeyang

  Dream, Want, Achieve

  "Taeyang Revelations for ELLE Korea: 'I Wasn't Inspired Enough To Make Another Album 3 Years Ago'". www.kpopstarz.com. November 07, 2013.

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• The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.

  Allen C. Guelzo

  Revenge, Two, Should

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