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• Indians have no monopoly on environmentalism. That's one of the great myths. But we were subsistence livers. They're two different things. Environmentalism is a conscious choice and subsistence is the absence of choice. We had to use everything to survive. And now that we've been assimilated and colonized and we have luxuries and excesses, we're just as wasteful as other people.

  Sherman Alexie

  Luxury, People, Choices

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mean, Thinking, Desire

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Years, Alcohol

  David Lehman, Sherman Alexie (2015). “The Best American Poetry 2015”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Perfect sandwich? Two slices of white bread, mustard, mayo and a platinum American Express card.

  Chris Pratt

  White, Perfect, Cards

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 24, 2015.

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• When you look at your freelance career, it's really like a mall. And if you look at a mall, it's a self-contained system that has a flow and logic to it. You'll probably have one or two really bigger jobs, those are like your anchor stores.

  Chris Hardwick

  Jobs, Self, Anchors

  "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2008.

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• I am definitely not a light packer. My thought is you never know what the weather will be like or what you will feel like wearing that day, so I always have multiple bags with me - even for a two-day trip.

  Russell Westbrook

  Light, Weather, Bags

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.

  Ricky Gervais

  Religious, Growing Up, Pain

  Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2013.

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• I was homeless. I lived in a car for a couple of years. That was the worst. But nothing was worse than when I was 40 and my mom passed away. My mother was the best person I ever knew. Those were the two lowest points.

  Steve Harvey

  Mom, Mother, Couple

  "Steve Harvey tells moviegoers how to "Think Like a Man"". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.

  Patti Smith

  Wall, Thinking, Trying

  "A Minute With: Patti Smith on her photography show". Interview with Julie Mollins, www.reuters.com. January 16, 2013.

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• When you have so many projects to nurture, one or two get real excited and raise their hands. The reaction from it tells when it's time and where to go. I usually have about a half a dozen titles in development; researchers researching and people doing cover. I'm exploring musical vocabularies I want to explore, different genres, and constantly reading things.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Real, Reading, Hands

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• Choosing a director is like choosing a therapist - you want somebody who is going to be a step or two ahead of you, who can interpret and articulate your intentions better than you can, with the benefit of objectivity. I look for a collaborator who is going to help bring to life, on stage, in three dimensions, what is on the page. I wouldn't want a director who imposes conceits or distrusts the text or who has prejudged the characters.

  Donald Margulies

  Character, Objectivity, Benefits

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• One positive statement of good is more powerful than 1,000 negative thoughts; and two positive statements of good are more powerful than 10,000 negative thoughts.

  Catherine Ponder

  Powerful, Attitude, Optimism

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• Some authorities believe that one prosperous thought is more powerful than a thousand failure thoughts; and that two prosperous attitudes steadily held and expressed are more powerful than ten thousand failure attitudes!

  Catherine Ponder

  Powerful, Attitude, Believe

  Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• We hail the return of the day of thy birth,
  Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans
  Where men from the farthest dominions of earth
  Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions;
  Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right,
  Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight;
  Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be
  An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.

  Abraham Coles

  Freedom, Father, Ocean

  Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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• How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.

  Seth Godin

  Hero, Discovery, Interesting

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.28, Penguin

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• There are only two states of being in the world of codependency - recovery and denial.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Recovery, Denial, World

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• The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves, and most people are mad at their parents. You don't have to be in denial to doubt that truths like these will set us free.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Recovery, Simple, People

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• There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.

  Eve Babitz

  Brain, Tragedy, Firsts

  Eve Babitz (2015). “Eve's Hollywood”, p.96, New York Review of Books

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• my choices were partly conditioned by the two great laws - of biology and sociology - for I do not conceive of myself outside of them. ... Inside every biological and social situation I am free to make decisions.

  Nina Berberova

  Law, Choices, Decision

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• Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

  Patricia Moyes

  Cat, Mutual Benefit, People

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• The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Blow, Weather, Giving

  gertrude atherton (1916). “the conqueror”

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• Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because an ancestor or two happened to arrive here on the Mayflower. You don't even have to be a registered Republican.

  Lisa Birnbach

  School, Acting, Lucky

  Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing

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• The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we cut to pieces by recklessly applying the murderous knife of intellectual surgery?

  D.T. Suzuki

  Mistake, Cutting, Knives

  D.T. Suzuki (2011). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.19, Souvenir Press

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• We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Brother, Men, Gender

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.310, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you think you can do two full-time jobs, people will expect you to do three.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Jobs, Work, Thinking

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.141, Penguin

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