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• It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look at the history of extinctions, we've killed off an awful lot of animals - and I don't think we're doing a very good job of looking after the planet.

  Bill Bryson

  Jobs, Animal, Thinking

  "Bill Bryson answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• I've never thought of myself as being particularly brave - I used to be frightened of the dark when I was small. And I'm not very good with dead rats and things like that. But I face what has to be faced and I hope as best as I'm able.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Dark, Brave, Rats

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Every good startup is a cult. And it's really hard to create a cult if you are sharing space with people. Because a cult means you think you are better than every other startup, you have a special way of doing things that's better than anyone else in the world.

  Keith Rabois

  Mean, Thinking, Space

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• I like filming in New York a lot myself, but London is accommodating to me; the weather's very good there and the conditions for shooting and the financial conditions, the artistic conditions are good, so it's a pleasant place to shoot.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Weather, Shooting

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• The writers are very good about misdirection and changeups, and that's what's great about it. We always think we know what's going to happen and then they throw a curveball that you don't see coming.

  Mike Colter

  Thinking, Misdirection, Curveballs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.

  Jack Nicholson

  Actresses

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• Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Lying, Men, Discovery

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• The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work with all our strength.

  Peter Damian

  Sorrow, Everyday, Penance

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• We all saw it coming. Arsenal's youth policy has always been very good.

  Roy Hodgson

  Saws, Youth, Policy

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• A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.

  David Oderberg

  War, Thinking, Reason

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• I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.

  Bill Ackman

  Thinking, Cost, World

  "CNBC Exclusive: CNBC's Scott Wapner Interviews Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman from CNBC Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha Conference in NYC". "Closing Bell", www.cnbc.com. July 16, 2014.

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• I don't have a very good relationship with baking. I do bake sometimes, but my natural instinct is to just do what feels right a lot, and that's what you're not supposed to do in baking. I'm not a good baker.

  Thu Tran

  Good Relationship, Bakers, Natural Instinct

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Just like on Guitar Hero, there are things that are similar and things that are not similar at all. When I first played DJ Hero, I wasn't very good. The control surface is similar in some ways to a turntable, but in other ways not at all the same.

  DJ Shadow

  Hero, Guitar, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You can be a great DJ and still be not very good at DJ Hero. And vice-versa: You can have never spun in your life on real turntables and be fine on DJ Hero.

  DJ Shadow

  Real, Hero, Vices

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The level of trust is extraordinarily low and the level of suspicion extraordinarily high, and with good reason and on both sides. The press has hunkered down for very good reason, because it's being treated like a mushroom.

  Ted Gup

  Mushrooms, Levels, Sides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• America's been very, very good to me. I've been very lucky and worked a lot there, and appreciate and love the work that I've done.

  Clive Owen

  America, Appreciate, And Love

  Interview with RZA, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2015.

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• We, as women, often believe that we have to endear ourselves by acting modestly. But that leads personnel directors to think: Anyone who gives themselves away so cheaply cannot be very good. On that point, women need to get much, much more self-confident and tough.

  Kristina Schroder

  Believe, Thinking, Self

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• I enjoy any type of physical transformation. I enjoy working with the hair and makeup department and I enjoy watching people be very good at their jobs.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Jobs, Makeup, Hair

  Source: collider.com

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• I think actors, they maybe want more approval than I'm used to giving. Everybody does. Everybody needs a hug you know, all the time. I'm not very good at that. I could get better at that.

  Timothy Miller

  Thinking, Giving, Hug

  "Exclusive: Tim Miller Talks Deadpool Development & X-Men Universe". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. November 5, 2015.

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• Humans are very good at making algorithms work eventually.

  Usama Fayyad

  Algorithms, Humans

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball player, and I've since grown out of that place into a different perspective and learned how to live differently, thankfully, where baseball is certainly something that's very important to me. It's not who I am, though. It's just what I do.

  R.A. Dickey

  Baseball, Athlete, Player

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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• I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.

  Beth Orton

  Swimming, Love Is, Sea

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• Impatience can be very good by helping us not put up with tyranny, but it can distort our view of what is possible and how to bring about change. We have to cultivate patience so that our perception isn't distorted.

  Paul Ekman

  Views, Perception, Helping

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• There is a very good thing about hating evil. If you hate evil, that's all you will hate

  Dennis Prager

  Hate, Evil, Good Things

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• We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Mistake, Judging, Lawyer

  Twitter post from Sep 02, 2015

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