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• Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Confusing, Intuition, Input

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• In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don’t think I was a very good actor when I did that.

  Charlie Day

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  Interview with Guillermo Del Toro, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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• I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Needs, Littles

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• We just became very good friends [with Dwight Eisenhower], we played golf, we played heart exhibitions. Then his doctor said he should not play golf anymore.

  Arnold Palmer

  Heart, Good Friend, Golf

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• That's another thing about my father. He made me very conscious of the fact I wasn't very good and I had to prove to him that I was good. And that hung with me, and I always wanted to play golf with him and show him. He said Never, Never tell anyone how good you are. Show them!

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Golf, Play

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Finding Yourself, Desert, Losing Yourself

  Source: www.columbusalive.com

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• The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Operations, Duty

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• I'll watch a Keanu Reeves movie and I'll go, 'Wow, he's really not a very good actor!'

  Ashton Kutcher

  Funny, Humor, Watches

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• With acting, it [auditioning] is very frustrating. I'm not very good at auditions. Sometimes I audition for a role and I'm like, I'd be really funny in that role, but I'm not good at auditions so I guess I'm not getting that role. It's a very frustrating job.

  Jim Jefferies

  Jobs, Acting, Roles

  Source: www.portlandmercury.com

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• I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media is so bad at because it's so boring - nothing's happening. In a book, you can be inside the narrator's head for 50 pages, and nothing needs to happen. Then you learn to be inside your own head without something needing to happen. It's a very good antidote to a crazy, restless, "what's next?" culture - that you can just be in your own head and nothing is happening except that this is a rich place. I love that.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Crazy, Book, Reflection

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful.

  George Lucas

  Writing, Successful, Thinking

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I don't think the press has done a very good job dealing with government spending.The Defense Department with the $9,500 toilet seat, that's not the problem anymore. Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security are the problem. That's us. That's our generation. There the press never says a word.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.

  Kevin Spacey

  Wall, People, Shifting

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.

  Dave Chappelle

  Good Life, Quality, Quality Of Life

  "Dave Chappelle Is Back (This Time We're 100% Sure It's Maybe Totally for Real)". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. November 12, 2014.

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• White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

  Paul Mooney

  Awards, White, People

  Source: www.complex.com

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• We must not forget that the wheel is reinvented so often because it is a very good idea; I've learned to worry more about the soundness of ideas that were invented only once.

  David Parnas

  Ideas, Worry, Wheels

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• I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it and had never written. I don't think I ever passed an English course in my life. My first eight to 10 scripts were pretty horrendous, but I stayed at it, stayed at it, and stayed at it, until I eventually found a voice and a subject like Rocky that people were interested in.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Thinking, Eight, Voice

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of stuff that is written in this field, though, that is not very good. You just have to look for the good stuff.

  Stephen King

  Horror Stories, People, Looks

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

  Sydney Pollack

  Art, Know How, Areas

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Modesty, Virtue

  "Maya Angelou on Integrity", www.achievement.org.

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• Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.

  Alice Cooper

  Band, World, Stones

  "Johnny Depp's Rock Supergroup: Alice Cooper and Joe Perry on Hollywood Vampires". Interview with Jeff Slate, www.thedailybeast.com. September 13, 2015.

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• I like the idea of becoming [fairly] good at lots of things rather than very good at just one thing. So it would be nice to be okay at the guitar or at the piano, a reasonable cook, perhaps able to fix your car or do some basic carpentry, and be able to write the odd article. Rather than being super good at one tiny thing, to be kind of average at lots of things. It might mean that you have a more kind of enjoyable, complete life.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Nice, Mean, Writing

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• I had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not such lovely hearts. They are tough to each other, they beat each other, they are rude and they are violent and they drink. They're not sweethearts, you know, but some were so interesting.

  Agnes Varda

  Heart, People, Interesting

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle.

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Circles

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• I don't believe ever in shared office spaces. Peter talks a little bit about this, every good startup is a cult. It's very hard to create a cult if you're sharing space with people.

  Keith Rabois

  Office Space, Believe, People

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