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• I have a real soft spot for flying saucer songs and Frenkenstein songs. When I was a kid the first record I ever really liked was called "The Mummy", and the flip-side was called "The Beat Generation" which Richard Hell later re-wrote as "The Blank Generation". I thought it was the greatest thing I had ever heard. I didn't like Elvis much then, but I was very young. When I was a kid I used to play that monster all the time!

  Tom Verlaine

  Song, Real, Kids

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• It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

  Edmond Francois Valentin About

  Country, Men, Information

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• You can't just repurpose old material created for one platform, throw it up on another one, and then be surprised when everyone yawns in your face. No one would ever think it was a good idea to use a print ad for a television commercial, or confuse a banner ad for a radio spot. Like their traditional media platform cousins, every social media platform has its own language.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Cousin, Thinking, Media

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration.

  Rob Reiner

  Inspiration, Winter, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are a lot of comedic actors who are just out to be the funny one and get all the laughs and they'll sacrifice your joke, the scene, the story just to be the star. All they want is attention and to be number one. You can spot those guys from a mile away and they're the worst.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Stars, Sacrifice, Numbers

  "Jake Johnson: It's Legal to Smoke Bad Weed". Interview With Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. August 13, 2014.

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• Commercials are also any opportunity to meet new crew and work with new kind of rigs. You can explore working with different people without having to make the full commitment of having to do an entire feature film with them and see whether you like them. Also it's great for testing out new equipment, like on the last spot we just did, I used a lot of drone technology, really cutting edge drone stuff, more than I've ever done before, and it worked out really really well.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Commitment, Cutting, Technology

  Source: collider.com

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• The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, and get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.

  Abel Ferrara

  World, Mark, Constantly Learning

  "Abel Ferrara’s Teacher". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2014.

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• Some girls have crazy eyes. You can spot that!

  Miles Teller

  Girl, Crazy, Eye

  Source: collider.com

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• The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.

  Carrie Fisher

  Thinking, Phony, Easier

  "What I've Learned: Carrie Fisher" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.

  William H. Calvin

  Arrows, Pioneers

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• Kids can spot a phony a mile away.

  Fred Rogers

  Kids, Phony, Miles

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• The uncreative mind can spot the wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot the wrong questions" The question has never been: Do we have the money? The question has always been: Do we have the resources?

  Jacque Fresco

  Creative, Mind, Wrong Answers

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• Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, House, Mind

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• Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Passion, Mind, May

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• Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who never can get enough love. They grow jealous of our work and come to regard it as a rival. These people can destroy you, so kick them out of your life or don't admit them in the first place.

  Florence King

  Jealous, Insecure, Self

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• The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

  Frederick Douglass

  Government, People, Columbia

  Frederick Douglass (2008). “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, p.391, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life

  W. H. Auden

  Running, Dog, Goes On

  "Musee des Beaux Arts" l. 10 (1940)

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• You can always spot the employee playing golf with his boss. He's the fellow who makes a hole in one and says, "oops!"

  Bob Monkhouse

  Golf, Boss, Holes

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• The very best garden is a new one, on virgin ground. Plants leap out of that spot.

  Janet Macunovich

  Garden, Plant, Leap

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• Satan never wastes a fiery dart by aiming at a spot covered by armor. The bull's eye is located dead center in our inconsistency. That's where the enemy plans to bring us down.

  Beth Moore

  Eye, Enemy, Armor

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• At a banquet Caligula was suddenly seized with a fit of helpless laughter. The consuls reclining next to him asked if they might share in the imperial merriment. Caligula, wiping the tears from his eyes, managed to gasp, "You'll never guess! It suddenly occurred to me that I had only to give a single nod, and both your throats would be cut on the spot."

  Suetonius

  Laughter, Eye, Cutting

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• Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

  Charlie Munger

  Shells, Dutch, Royal

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• But I tell people all the time that if you can do the job, then there's a spot for you. I refuse to believe that there isn't any room in this business. People leave jobs and jobs open up every year. If you can do the job, you'll find your way into the broadcast booth.

  Joe Buck

  Jobs, Believe, Years

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• The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Blind Spots, Understanding, Principles

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• Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dream, Sound, Half

  Jerome K. Jerome (1998). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.9, Oxford Paperbacks

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