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• What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never see and maps so old that they are a record of nothing but the faintest glow of the past. Perhaps they turn us into gods, letting us look down at the insignificant drones that occupy the earth. Or maybe they simply feed off our hunger to go off into the unknown. Venturing off to places where people don't chain themselves to tedious jobs and financial debts but places of imagination, mystery and freedom Perhaps they're just trying to tell us something.

  Dan Kieran

  Jobs, Past, People

  Tom Hodgkinson, Dan Kieran (2010). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.48, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Better world. Better life for everybody, every worker. Poor kids oughta be able to go anyplace their brains will take them. Not where Daddy or Mommy's pocketbooks can send them. Everybody oughta have health care, everybody oughta have some retirement security, every American. Every one. Everybody oughta have a decent good job. That's what I believe in, and that's what I fight every day to try to achieve.

  Richard Trumka

  Retirement, Jobs, Believe

  "Richard Trumka, American". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.

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• I'm always trying to get to a danger point in color, where color either becomes too sweet or it becomes too harsh, it becomes too noisy or too quiet, and at that point I still want the picture to be strong, forceful, and the carrier of everything that a painting has to have: contrast, drama, austerity.

  Wolf Kahn

  Sweet, Strong, Drama

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• You know, comments about style always seem strange to me - 'why do you work in this style, or in that style' - as if you had a choice in the matter... What you're doing is trying to stay alive and continue and not die.

  Philip Guston

  Choices, Style, Alive

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• A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

  Marvin Minsky

  Typewriters, Sound, Purpose

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• I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me.

  Rory McIlroy

  Thinking, People, Appreciate

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• My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.

  Anton Corbijn

  Ideas, People, Sensitive

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• Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!

  Norman Rockwell

  Hands, Interesting, Fossils

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• Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong

  Patrick Stump

  Mom, Being Yourself, Love You

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• Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them...just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you've done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them.

  Patrick Stump

  Song, Writing, Exercise

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• I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.

  Patrick Stump

  Jobs, Thinking, Knowing

  AbsolutePunk.net Intreview, October 6, 2008.

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• Just because I can't change everything, doesn't mean I shouldn't try to change anything at all.

  Tim McIlrath

  Mean, Because I Can, Can't Change

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

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• Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time, all you know is you'd die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.

  Caroline Knapp

  Single Mom, Simple, Air

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.8, Dial Press

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• Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.

  Guy Finley

  Dream, Real, Effort

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Jun 13, 2014

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• It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Children, Interesting, Would Be

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• If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Evil, Relax

  "Thus Spake Stallman". Slashdot Interview, news.slashdot.org. May 1, 2000.

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• I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?

  Richard Stallman

  Sex, Giving, Want

  "Extreme Pornography Law in the UK". Personal Website, stallman.org. February 19, 2010.

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• I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control whether people are allowed to use it, or to try to stop other people from sharing it, is sabotage.

  Richard Stallman

  Thinking, People, Use

  "Richard Stallman discusses his public-domain Unix-compatible software system with BYTE editors". Interview with David Betz and Jon Edwards, www.gnu.org. July 1986.

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• I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

  James Rosenquist

  Always Trying

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• If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Clever, Years, Get Away

  "Bits and pieces". www.thenews.com.pk. February 18, 2011.

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• I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.

  Lance Armstrong

  Culture, Doping

  "Lance Armstrong makes Oprah confession". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.abc.net.au. January 18, 2013.

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• I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.

  Lance Armstrong

  People, Apologizing

  "He's still lying...Lance is a little runt". www.dailymail.co.uk. January 18, 2013.

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• I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't consider the technical or commercial parameters so much as the desire for a dream that humans have attempted to project onto an object.

  Philippe Starck

  Dream, Desire, Trouble

  Graphis: International Journal for Graphic and Applied Art, 1996.

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• You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Growing Up, Humor

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

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• I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

  Teena Marie

  Song, Real, Sacrifice

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