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• If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Writing, Bores You, Ems

  Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, Harper Collins

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• We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We need entrepreneurs to sell those technologies. We need workers to operate assembly lines that hum with high-tech, zero-carbon components. We need builders to hammer into place the foundations for a clean energy age. We need diplomats and businessmen and women, and Peace Corps volunteers to help developing nations skip past the dirty phase of development and transition to sustainable sources of energy. In other words, we need you.

  Barack Obama

  Zero, Dirty, Past

  Barack Obama's remarks at University of California-Irvine Commencement Ceremony at the Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 14, 2014.

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• What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Twists, Doe

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1821.

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• When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's skip over the Japanese. Let's just get to Giotto, because that's where everything begins." It's like, no. Everything is relevant to me.

  Ali Banisadr

  Art, Important, Giotto

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find myself like others, having the heart of a Steiglitz with hands that sometimes seem impeded by boxing gloves. What is exasperating is that one can feel closer to managing the skills of photography than most other arts, and yet be a long hop, skip and delusional way from it.

  Norman Corwin

  Photography, Art, Distance

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• I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

  Jerry Doyle

  Beach, School, Flying

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.

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• Aside from a couple of signature flourishes, there's nothing to mark Paycheck as the product of acclaimed action director John Woo. In fact, there's little about this movie that makes it worth anyone's time and money. With a script that waffles between being hilariously absurd and insultingly stupid, and action scenes that won't cause anyone's pulse to skip a beat, Paycheck is less appealing than a lump of coal in a Christmas stocking.

  James Berardinelli

  Couple, Stupid, Signatures

  "Paycheck (2003)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net, 2003.

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• I read once about the concepts of a lateral idea and the vertical idea. If you dig a hole and it’s in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn’t going to help. The lateral idea is when you skip over and dig someplace else.

  Seymour Chwast

  Motivational, Ideas, Digging

  Seymour Chwast (1985). “The left-handed designer”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Book, Writing, Tire

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1828). “Ladies' Magazine”, p.205

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• If fitness came in a bottle,everyone would have a great body. Skip the quick fixes;hard work is what ensures lasting results!

  Denise Austin

  Hard Work, Bottles, Body

  FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Nov 21, 2013

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• Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles. When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Creative, Want

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• Crowds of bees are giddy with clover
  Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet,
  Crowds of larks at their matins hang over,
  Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

  Jean Ingelow

  Sweet, Feet, Bees

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.1

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• You know the Model of your Car. You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care, Nor tax it more than it will bear. But as to self — that's different. Your mechanism may be bent, Your carbureter gone to grass, Your engine just a rusty mass. Your wheels may wobble and your cogs Be handed over to the dogs, And on you skip, and skid, and slide, Without a thought of things inside. What fools indeed we mortals are To lavish care upon a Car, With ne'er a bit of time to see About our own machinery!

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Dog, Self, Car

  John Kendrick Bangs (1920). “The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day”

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• I don’t think it’s possible to skip with a frown on your face.... I’d like to see the world’s governing and terrorist leaders on a skipping tour through the Middle East and across the subcontinent and China to Korea.

  Bindi Irwin

  Thinking, Korea, Leader

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• I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

  Jenny Eclair

  Jobs, Cat, Vision

  "This much I know" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.

  Adam Gopnik

  New York, Coffee, Thinking

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• I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it’s 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and rhyme, heartbreaking and witty at the same time. It seems to promise a better world.

  Geoff Ryman

  Beautiful, Witty, Promise

  Geoff Ryman (2013). “Paradise Tales: and Other Stories”, p.167, Small Beer Press

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• A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Fitness, Dog, Exercise

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• Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands.

  Daphne Oz

  Coffee, Exercise, Important

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• In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasnt my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so its not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Party, Years, Skating

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• A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, "Simba!

  Annie Dillard

  Work, Doors, Discipline

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• The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two days, the critics notice, and after three days, so does the audience.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Practice, Two, Differences

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• All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

  Shane Claiborne

  Running, Children, People

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.176, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you're confused about it, [the area] where you're confused can be analyzed by software.

  Bill Gates

  Confused, Two, Special

  "Q&A: Bill Gates: Lessons Learned". Interview with Ina Fried, www.cbsnews.com. January 25, 2010.

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• Much of life is a game. If played skillfully, with an intelligent and fascinating opponent, it can become almost a dance. One challenges and moves, the other teases and skips away, only to dart forward later and strike a telling blow.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Moving, Blow, Intelligent

  Elizabeth Hoyt (2010). “The Ice Princess”, p.20, Hachette UK

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