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  I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

  Howard Schultz

  Success, Leadership, Believe

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a job. That was a very important point - because of the injury, he couldn't walk, and the company he was working for did not pay him. There was no compensation. So there was no money and no food.

  Howard Schultz

  Jobs, Father, Blue

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• If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

  Tom Seaver

  Winning, United States, Vietnam

  "Big Sexy Does the Impossible" by Matthew Hoh, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2016.

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• You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.

  Tom Selleck

  Tvs, Grew Up, Knows

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• I think it's just a lot more pressure to make the scenes work when you're doing a film, because when you're doing a series you feel like, I have so many scenes, so many episodes, so if I don't get it exactly right this time, I have another scene later. You feel less pressure.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Thinking, Pressure, Film

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

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• Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

  Jane Seymour

  Art, Character, Television

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• I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

  William Shatner

  Inspirational, Success, Hard Work

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• A series is filled with compromises.

  William Shatner

  Compromise, Filled

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• The 2000s were the time when bromance became a kind of love that dared to speak its name. As a high-water mark of bro culture, nothing can ever top the MTV series 'Bromance,' with Brody Jenner and his search for a new BFF.

  Rob Sheffield

  Bff, Mtv, Names

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• Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Men, Ideas, Males

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• A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

  Sivananda

  Ocean, Water, Mountain

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• I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.

  Mark Skousen

  Book, Fall, Winning

  "Positive or Negative about the Stock Market?". www.nasdaq.com. April 12, 2013.

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• A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, World, Trophies

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• We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Happiness, Joy

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.

  Jon Stewart

  Swings, Ideas, Balance

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

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• I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.

  Kristen Stewart

  Character, Long, Actors

  Interview with Dennis Hopper, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2009.

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• The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

  Dick Wolf

  Heart, Character, House

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• There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

  Naomi Wolf

  Thinking, Feminist, Tests

  Naomi Wolf answers your questions, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2001.

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• Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Halos, Lamps

  1919 'Modern Fiction'.

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• I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.

  Al Yankovic

  Nice, Successful, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so.

  Richard Bach

  Hiking, Long, Perspective

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• I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Prayer, Maps

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• Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Mean, Moments

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.

  Michael Chabon

  Lying, Heart, Firsts

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.213, Open Road Media

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• Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.

  Bill Bryson

  Sweden, Eating

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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