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• The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.

  Ian Brown

  Musical Genius, Brilliance, Masterpiece

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• I can't get over that at this age I don't feel this age. I'm not trying to be any younger. I'm not lying about my age. If I were lying about my age, I would say I was 89. I'm just at one of those good times in one's life. I'm at one of the high spots. I'm healthy enough to enjoy it. I'm surrounded by friends I adore. Isn't that kind of the best way to sign off?

  Betty White

  Lying, Healthy, Trying

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

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• I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

  Richard Dawkins

  Art, Poetry And Music, Blank

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• We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

  Bill Hybels

  Average, Blind Spots, Weakness

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• If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I'm sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Green, Ass, Paint

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• I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be in that particular spot...You have many things to pick from when you're playing, so you try to train yourself to pick out the best things that you know.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Essence, Play, Trying

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• A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and small enough so that, in addition to the confusion naturally attending the novel elements, there shall be luminous familiar spots from which helpful suggestions may spring.

  John Dewey

  Art, Lying, Spring

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Sky, Rainbow, Shining

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.644

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• People who expect to feel guilty tend to be more sympathetic, to put themselves into other people's shoes, to think about the consequences of their behaviour before acting, and to treasure their morals. As a result they are less prone to lie, cheat or behave immorally when they conduct a business deal or spot an opportunity to make money, studies suggest. They are also likely to make better employees because people who think less about the future results of their actions are more likely to be late, to steal or to be rude to clients.

  David D. Burns

  Lying, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: time.com

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• My leg was made for kicking things. Doesn't matter the circumstance, style or formation. It's all about putting your foot on the right spot of the ball and letting your leg velocity do the rest.

  Pat McAfee

  Feet, Style, Balls

  The Bleacher Report Interview, bleacherreport.com. May 30, 2009.

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• If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,--how much anxiety and danger would vanish.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Shoes, Optimism, Anxiety

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.148, Courier Corporation

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• I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, 'Which are my big scenes?' and then get every drop of juice out of them. The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a play. I say to myself, if a big name were playing this part, and if he found that after a strong first act he had practically nothing to do in the second act, he would walk out. Now, then, can I twist the story so as to give him plenty to do all the way through?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Strong, Character, Writing

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• To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.

  Paul Simon

  Littles, Stuff, Bits

  "Playboy Interview Paul Simon". Book by Tony Schwartz, 1984.

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• Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.

  Rex Stout

  Home, Want, Function

  Rex Stout (2011). “The Red Box”, p.103, Crimeline

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• I just go out there and do what I do and try and hit my spots.

  Johan Santana

  Trying

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• It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.

  Barry Zito

  Intuition, Would Be, Able

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• The Coca-Cola Mean Joe Greene ad is one of the most famous commercials of all time, so I was blown away when they asked me to be in this new spot.

  Troy Polamalu

  Mean, Coca Cola, All Time

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• My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.

  Eli Manning

  Keys, Want, Able

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• In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred.

  Rob Brezsny

  Judging, Addiction, Hatred

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.62, Frog Books

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• If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.

  Robert Trivers

  Strong, Communication, Animal

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• The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.

  James C. Collins

  Sweet, Retirement, Passion

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• There is only one number one. It is a lonely spot but it has got the best view of all.

  Jimmy Connors

  Lonely, Views, Numbers

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• You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Mother, Running, Listening

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• Fright is something one can never get over. When a warrior is caught in such a tight spot he would simply turn his back to the ally without thinking twice. A warrior cannot indulge thus he cannot die of fright. A warrior allows the ally to come only when he is good and ready. When he is strong enough to grapple with the ally he opens up his gap and lurches out, grabs the ally, keeps him pinned down and maintains his stare on him for exactly the time he has to, then he moves his eyes away and releases the ally and lets him go. A warrior, my little friend, is the master at all times

  Carlos Castaneda

  Strong, Moving, Eye

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• At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

  H. L. Mencken

  Eight, Light, Nine

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