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• I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Self, People, Imagination

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• I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.

  Joe Fafard

  Together, Clay, Woods

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• If you're living life from a place of fear, you're not free to take risks or pursue your dreams. If your energy is expended in avoiding failure or rejection, then that energy is used to stay safe, instead of being available to create the life you envision.

  Lauren Mackler

  Dream, Fear, Live Life

  "Manage Fear So It Doesn’t Manage You" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2009.

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• Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.

  Phil Cousineau

  Grandfather, Path, Steps

  Phil Cousineau (2008). “Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination”, p.23, Conari Press

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• The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Technology, Understanding, Calling

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• To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Gay, Shapes, Just Being

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• Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.

  Randy Schekman

  School, Algae, Hours

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• I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

  Clare Balding

  Thinking, Ambitious, Adjectives

  "'I'm going to glam up': Clare Balding nervous ahead of prime time TV role" by Simon Boyle, www.mirror.co.uk. December 28, 2012.

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• Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you

  Ed Roland

  Want, Used To Be

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• I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!

  Humphrey Lyttelton

  Play, Ceilings, Looks

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• When I first met Adèle I was like, ‘Wow, this girl has a strong character!’ She has something very free about her. I’m not used to it. Some actresses are too self-aware, they strike a pose. Adèle is a force of nature.

  Lea Seydoux

  Girl, Strong, Character

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• I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored

  Zinedine Zidane

  Hard Work, Two, Play

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• I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Two, Connections

  "Talks with Edison". Harper's Magazine, Volume 80, February 1890.

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• We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.

  Desmond Tutu

  Gun, Winning, Government

  "Dalai Lama honours Tintin and Tutu", BBC News, June 2, 2006.

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• Sport can be used for messaging, for example, making the connections between shin guards or a helmet that protects you, and protection in terms of HIV and AIDS. There has also been a very active program in Africa called 'Kick Polio out of Africa,' where soccer players have spoken out in terms of polio. There is also going to be a swim for malaria.

  Carol Bellamy

  Soccer, Sports, Player

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• There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no information, and his work cannot be used. It is the end product which counts.

  Georg Baselitz

  Communication, Artist, Information

  Georg Baselitz, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum (1983). “Baselitz, paintings 1960-83”

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• When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the reaction was because I was coming back unemployed. Actors are constantly being put to the test.

  Scott Bakula

  New York, Actors, Tests

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

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• Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

  Yehuda Berg

  Ego Problem, Self, People

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• I don`t sing anywhere as good as I used to, and I feel sincerely that it`s getting worse.

  Bing Crosby

  Feels, Sincerely

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• We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.

  Bob Costas

  Sports, Stories, World

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• My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

  Donald Fagen

  Song, New York, Writing

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• I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.

  Donald Fagen

  Kids, Years, Play

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• It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Survival, World, Buzz

  "Quotes of the day: Cameron Sinclair". www.cnn.com. July 11, 2008.

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• I used to love 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,' and I can still remember listening to them before I would fall asleep. I can remember the first ten minutes of the book perfectly, but whether I knew the rest of it was slightly more dicey.

  William Moseley

  Book, Fall, Listening

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• A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.

  Josef von Sternberg

  Light, Color, White

  Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”

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