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• As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

  David Hockney

  Fashion, World, Comedy

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• I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

  James Hillman

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.

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• This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

  Brad Henry

  Oklahomans, Firsts, Republican

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• The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

  Stephen Hawking

  Faith, Doe, Answers

  "A Brief History of Time". Book by Stephen Hawking, 1988.

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• When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Book, Secret, Wake Up

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. January 8, 2008.

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• And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

  Dave Brubeck

  Ideas, Technique, Jazz

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• Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.

  James Buchan

  Distance, Grief, Eye

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• Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Real, Believe, Character

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• I generally avoid over-population arguments. But there's no question we're in population overshoot. The catch is we're not going to do anything about it. There will be no policy. The usual suspects: starvation, war, disease, will drive the population down. There's little more to say about that really, and it's certainly an unappetizing discussion, but it's probably the truth. In any case, we're in overshoot and we face vast resource scarcities.

  James Howard Kunstler

  War, Faces, Population

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• We can't use the word normal anymore because it's sort of come to be politically incorrect, because normal implies a classification, and categorizations, and exclusions, and so forth. So neurotypical is the word that we now have to use for what I call normal behavior. Neurotypical behaviors are those kinds of behaviors within the range of usual human conduct that do not rise to the level of a disorder.

  Darold Treffert

  Use, Levels, Exclusion

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Campaigns, Corporations, Individual

  "Occupy Congress" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.

  Jay Leno

  War, Night, Evil

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• In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means 'becoming.' In this space of becoming, we are subtly leaning forward into the future, trying to have security based on feeling that we can hold on, we can try to keep things from changing.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Buddhist, Mean, Space

  "How Doing Nothing Can Help You Truly Live" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2010.

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• No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

  Bertrand Russell

  Beauty, Beautiful, Real

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• You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

  Walker Percy

  Life, Men, Ideas

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• The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.

  Christine Pelosi

  Husband, Pregnancy, Good Luck

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• It's about ladies, as usual. I'm telling the ladies I got the right temperature to keep them warm.

  Sean Paul

  Temperature, Warm

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

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• These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know are reading contemporary poets (they love Willie Perdomo) and scripts (No Child, by Nilaja Sun and Twilight by Anna Deavere Smith). I don't know their reading habits outside of our class, but I believe that they enjoy stories that they can relate to, learn from, be challenged by - you know, the usual good writing that every reader craves.

  Renee Watson

  Children, Believe, Reading

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Consequences of acting in Donald Trump's usual egocentric, "I make the rules," way can be quite dangerous for all of us.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Acting, Way, Trump

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Children, Unification Church, People

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• My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

  Joni Mitchell

  Next, Firsts, Looking For Love

  "It's a Joni Mitchell concert, sans Joni". Interview With Matt Diehl, articles.latimes.com. April 22, 2010.

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• I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to do with the validity of the philosopher's positions. I agree that assessing validity and contextualizing historically are two entirely distinct matters and not to be confused with one another. And yet that firm distinction doesn't lead me to endorse the usual way in which history of philosophy is presented.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Confused, Philosophy, Ideas

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.165, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

  Harold MacMillan

  Ideas, Sound, Mixtures

  Speech to London Conservatives, 7 Mar. 1961, in The Times 8 Mar. 1961

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• The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

  Bela Lugosi

  Character, Romantic Love, Ghouls

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• The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.

  James Lovelock

  Climate, World, Alarmists

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