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• But I get a thrill out of bringing a group together and helping them reach a place they didn’t know they could go. I see myself as a mentor now and I’m excited to lead some of these talented young guys.

  LeBron James

  Guy, Mentor, Together

  "Encore: LeBron James returns to Cavs to bring championship-starved city first title since '64", www.foxnews.com. July 12, 2014.

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• What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.

  Julie Burchill

  Crush, Real, Intelligent

  "What I know about men". www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2007.

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• Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

  Graydon Carter

  Writing, Paris, Giving

  "These things I know". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2004.

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• I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

  Kurt Cobain

  Kids, Alternatives, Alternative Music

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• Knowing my husband they way I do, this is what he lives for - real competition. And I don't think he was ever satisfied when he was with the WWE. He just loves the thrill of competition.

  Brock Lesnar

  Husband, Real, Wrestling

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• He recalled Galloran stating that being a hero meant doing what was right regardless of the consequences. The thought sent a thrill through him. Galloran had been in this same situation and had made the right choice. Jason felt less alone. Malodor had claimed that his opponents had no heroes among them. But Galloran was proof to the contrary. And Jason would be evidence as well. p. 420

  Brandon Mull

  Hero, Choices, Jason

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• Are you kidding?" She looked at me as if I'd just dropped from the moon. Her cheeks were bright red. "What's the problem now?" I demanded. "Me, go with you to the...the 'Thrill Ride of Love'? How embarrassing is that? What if somebody saw me?" "Who's going to see you?" But my face was burning now, too. Leave it to a girl to make everything complicated. "Fine," I told her. "I'll do it myself." But when I started down the side of the pool, she followed me, muttering about how boys always messed things up.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Boys, Moon

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• I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.

  Elton John

  Giving Up, Piano, Looks

  "Elton John: 'When I was on drugs there was a monstrous side to me'". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2013.

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• For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

  Alicia Keys

  Perfect, Singing, Excitement

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• I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Jealous, Persons, Built

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• My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about.

  Steven Wright

  Book, Hero, Remember

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• The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

  Bob Uecker

  Son, Errors, Games

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

  Elaine Stritch

  Thinking, World

  "A Wry Survivor, Elaine Stritch Returns to Film" by Leslie Bennetts, www.nytimes.com. December 21, 1987.

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• The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Struggle, Believe, Victory

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• The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Team, Daddy

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• I got halfway through 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.' I don't get it at all. What's the big thrill? It's boring.

  Elmore Leonard

  Tattoo, Girl, Dragons

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• The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspiring, Romantic

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.127, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• You may get an emotional thrill when you first buy something, but emotions are fickle. You buy that one thing you think will complete your happiness, but after awhile the feeling goes away and you have to go to the next thing. You just keep going from purchase to purchase looking for the one thing that will finally satisfy. But stuff can't satisfy.

  Joyce Meyer

  Emotional, Thinking, Feelings

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• Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Motivation, Games

  "I've sacrificed everything to be the best in the world" by Paul Smith, www.thesun.co.uk. March 18, 2012.

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• I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.

  Ewan McGregor

  Theatre, Seeing

  "Ewan McGregor: questions from the floor". Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2002.

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• In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's really kind of a real thrill to go there. I mean, don't forget, I'm a boy from the suburbs of Sydney, so getting to New York is a huge, huge thrill.

  Hugh Jackman

  New York, Real, Mean

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. April 29, 2003.

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• Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?

  Christopher Moore

  Reading, Negative, Population

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove: Book 2: Pine Cove Series”, p.244, Hachette UK

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• Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb out of. Or it can trigger an epic mania to overcome the odds and transform failure into success. Say you swing as high as the chains will take you because you seek the thrill of flight, and on the up- kick, you lose your seat. Injury is likely. But if you worry about falling down, and never chance "up," the sky will remain forever out of reach.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Couple, Disappointment, Fall

  Ellen Hopkins (2011). “Perfect”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Moving, Eye, Meat

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• ...the thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly at her. The feel of his skin against hers reverberates across her entire body, though his fingers remain entwined in hers.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Skins, Body, Entwined

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