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• Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

  Fidel Castro

  Revolutionary, Virtue

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

  Paul Muldoon

  Believe, Rhyming, Language

  Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.

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• Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Trying, Shots

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• All poetry comes from repetition.

  Kenneth Koch

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• The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Character, Thinking, Drawing

  Source: www.midnighteye.com

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• Repetition is beautiful.

  Prince

  Beautiful

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• The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Years, Analysis, Fifty

  "Mr. Justice Holmes, 44 Harv. L. Rec. 682, 289". 1931.

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• You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

  Ornette Coleman

  Two, Numbers, Worry

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• There is no substitute for attentive repetition.

  Daniel Coyle

  Substitutes

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• The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Men, Information, Crime

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• I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.

  Peter Cushing

  Hate, Asking, Paint

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• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

  W. H. Auden

  Eye, Hands, Bored

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• Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Truth, Integrity

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.557, Best Books on

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• We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Taught, Different, Needs

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• Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.

  Sandy Skoglund

  Elements, Obsession, Process

  Sandy Skoglund, Smith College. Museum of Art (1998). “Sandy Skoglund: reality under siege : a retrospective”, Harry N. Abrams

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• From this simple phenomenon, this idea of saying something twice, more often, as often as possible, in order to make oneself understood - the most artful things developed... the principle of repetition!

  Anton Webern

  Simple, Order, Ideas

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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• I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent.

  Tom Daley

  Real, Thinking, Long

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• If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

  William Safire

  Reading, Editing, Deals

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• Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Animal, Humans, Repetitive

  Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.182, Macmillan

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• I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

  Graham Nelson

  Different, Elements, Way

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• Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Tasks, Cleaning, Endless

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• Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

  Terry Riley

  Gdp, Musical, Western Music

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• What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

  Homer

  Tales, Tedious

  Homer (1873). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.207

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• Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.

  Jane Jacobs

  Women, Effort, Ifs

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.129, Vintage

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• By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

  Mark Twain

  Law, History, Periods

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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