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• All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Attitude, Gone, Stuff

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Air, Sound, Done

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• Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

  Samuel Johnson

  Deception, Tomorrow, Cheat

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (199?). “Wisdom of ages: quotations”

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• Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

  Phil Ochs

  Men, Jail, Gone

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• A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.

  Wernher von Braun

  Dirty, Hands, Engineers

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• If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.

  Muhammad Asad

  Moving, Men, Water

  Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.57, The Book Foundation

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• And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses; howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges.

  Ezra Pound

  Dust, Sweat, Orange

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.152, New Directions Publishing

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• Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

  Johnny Thunders

  Song, Stay Strong, Clubs

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• 'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the "opportunity of exchanging error for truth"; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in its "collision with error." If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that: it becomes stale, soon learned by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.'

  Carl Sagan

  Truth, Book, Opportunity

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.550, Ballantine Books

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• Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read a revolutionary speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else. Everything is correctly, monotonously, dishearteningly revolutionary. What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Stupid, Mind

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• Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

  Phil Bredesen

  Real, Focus, Energy

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• Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Men, Skills, Water

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.131, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale.

  Sue Grafton

  Moving, Guy, Littles

  Sue Grafton (2012). “Kinsey Millhone: First Three Novels”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Thinking, Trying, Comfort

  "Queen Rania: World Cannot Afford To Be Cynical". Interview with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. April 22, 2009.

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• Life goes on and the truth changes; this just happens to be the way life is. What was once true is often no longer true just a little while later. Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

  Brad Blanton

  Yesterday, Jail, Bullshit

  Brad Blanton (1996). “Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth”, Dell

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• In Holland, things were pretty stale for me. Even though there were a lot of good influences and a certain openness to music and art and literature, I just wanted to go somewhere less familiar - somewhere bigger.

  Ari Marcopoulos

  Art, Literature, Influence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.

  William Allen White

  Moving, Order, Decay

  "Student Riots", editorial in "The Emporia (Kansas) Gazette" (April 8, 1932); reported in "Forty Years on Main Street" compiled by Russell H. Fitzgibbon, (p. 331), 1937.

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• It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  "Girl, Interrupted". Book by Susanna Kaysen, 1994.

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• Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

  John Zorn

  Mean, Preparation, Sound

  "Interview hits dissonant chord with John Zorn" by Lee Hildebrand, www.sfgate.com. August 26, 2010.

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• What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

  Jack Welch

  Educational, Offering, Organization

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• Wrestling became very stale and boring for me, and I wasn't really making any money with it. So I decided to get into fighting.

  Josh Koscheck

  Wrestling, Fighting, Boring

  Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com.

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• Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.

  George Carlin

  Bread, Packages

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• To be honest, I didn't have any expectations. I really didn't know what to expect. What I was most nervous about was the repetition of doing it over and over and over again. Does that get stale? How do you keep it fresh? Then I realized it's always new because you get to keep playing the next moment.

  Taissa Farmiga

  Expectations, Doe, Next

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I Am Number Four' definitely borrows from a whole bunch of genres and has a whole bunch of different themes throughout. And I think if it was just one stale two-dimensional thing then it would be kind of boring. And I think they did a fantastic job.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Jobs, Thinking, Two

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• We've gotten better at shooting down routine material or stuff we feel like we've done better in the past. Getting different people in the band for periods also keeps it from going stale.

  Bent Saether

  Past, People, Stuff

  Source: thequietus.com

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