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• Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Heart, Desire

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Chapter II), 1877.

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• The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

  Colin Greenwood

  Thinking, Innovation, Old And New

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

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• It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin.

  Triple H

  Couple, Games, Mind

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• In holding your antagonist, therefore, you should hold him lightly as if your arms were nothing but chains which connect you with him, so that you may stretch or contract them at will when necessary, and pull or push him in any direction you choose. If you pull your opponent or apply your tricks on him by putting from the beginning too much strength in your arms, then you are going to contest with him by means of your power and against the principles of Judo. In doing so, you can never expect to succeed in your contest.

  Yokoyama Sakujiro

  Mean, Principles, May

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• If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Thinking, Foxes, Deals

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• I'll tell you one of the great activities is skateboarding. To learn to do a skateboard trick, how many times do you gotta get something wrong til you get it right? ...And you hurt yourself, and you learn to do that trick, now you got a life lesson. Every time I see those skateboard kids, I think 'those kids'll be alright.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Hurt, Life Lesson, Kids

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• The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Answers, Interrogation, Offers

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “The Impossible Knife of Memory”, p.26, Penguin

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• I have a lot of friends who have hula-hoops, it's like a mixture of dance and athletics and exercise, meditation. It's a healthy hobby I think. I can do a few tricks, I can hoop from my neck and shoulders, and I can do a few moves, a few tricks! I can walk through the hoop whilst it's spinning. I feel like there's definitely an interest in promoting the hula-hoop as an important pastime!

  Sufjan Stevens

  Moving, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You're able to use a search engine, like Google or Bing or whatever. But those engines don't understand anything about pages that they give you; they essentially index the pages based on the words that you're searching, and then they intersect that with the words in your query, and they use some tricks to figure out which pages are more important than others. But they don't understand anything.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Giving, Google, Important

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, www.businessinsider.com. August 9, 2015.

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• We've had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants. The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don't think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.

  Adam Gopnik

  Thinking, Mass Shootings, Isis

  "Charlie Hebdo, The Licensed Anarchist Clowns Of French Society". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 2, 2016.

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• I think the great trick of doing my sort of thing is to learn to use your downtime, and of course in the media and especially in television, there's a heck of a lot of time of waiting around. And I think the trick is to use that.

  Clive James

  Thinking, Media, Waiting Around

  "Clive James: life through the prism of illness". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2015.

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• The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Knowing, Black

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• Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

  Bill Gates

  Pieces, Rewriting, Form

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• Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.

  Sam Riley

  Three, Cards, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• Being able to play tragedy for humor rather than pity is a new trick I've learned. For a long time that's what I did with my poetry, ask people to feel sorry for me. I got sober and I realized I have to get out of the pity thing; it's not going anywhere for me. I don't want to have any self-pity.

  Bucky Sinister

  Sorry, Play, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of ’sex slave’ and ’prostitute’ so much. I was a mistress!

  Kola Boof

  Sex, Mistress, Definitions

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.

  Mac Barnett

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.

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• Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit actual nourishing content into enjoyable entertainment.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Trying, Entertainment, Fit

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that.

  Dawn Angelique

  Labels, Limits, Majors

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.

  Gregory Rabassa

  Two, Would Be, Pages

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear - and only one. This one visualization will clarify every word choice you make.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Choices, Stories

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• It's perfectly legal in this country to change your mind. But when you're a governor, you have to admit it. You can't hide behind parliamentary tricks. That's the difference, and that's the kind of leader we need in the White House. Stop the Washington bull and let's get things done.

  Chris Christie

  Country, White, Differences

  Chris Christie at the 7th GOP debate in Des Moines, Iowa, www.washingtonpost.com. January 28, 2016.

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• In a way, I'm not at all jaded, and still enjoy so much what I do. It's a good trick.

  Jill Sobule

  Way, Enjoy, Stills

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.

  Catherine Brady

  Writing, Past, Arbitrary

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The fundamentals of what I'll do to prepare for a role don't really change. They evolve as you work with more actors and you pick up more tricks.

  Kristen Hager

  Roles, Fundamentals, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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