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• Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands in your pockets and your head on a pillow and would work no more. In science rest is stagnation, rest is death.

  Max Planck

  Hands, Pockets, Problem

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• In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.

  W. H. Auden

  Two, Greek, Hebrew

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• Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

  W. H. Auden

  Cooking, Meteorology, Three

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• If people knew how badly animals were treated in today's factory farms, if people knew how completely confined and immobilized these creatures are for their entire lives, if people knew how severe and unrelenting is the cruelty these animals are forced to endure, there would be change. If people knew. But too many of us choose to look the other way, to keep the veil in place, to remain unconscious and caught in the cultural trance. That way we are more comfortable. That way is convenient. That way we don' t have to risk too much. This is how we keep ourselves asleep.

  John Robbins

  Animal, People, Risk

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• The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."

  Spencer Pratt

  Song, Rapper, Lines

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey.

  Harland Williams

  Thinking, Saws, Monkeys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked back at the 20th and 21st centuries a thousand years from now, what their perception of the car would be. Or of television. I wonder if over time, they'll be seen as this thing that drove the culture, but ultimately had more downside than upside.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Technology, Thinking, Years

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• It would be quite unusual for me to get deep into a project and then shitcan it. One of the advantages of having done this for a while is that I have a better sense than I used to of when something is or isn't working. Until I developed that sense, this was a pretty dicey career for me, both in terms of paying the rent, and emotional wear and tear.

  Neal Stephenson

  Emotional, Careers, Tears

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was honored to have been invited, but to create lectures for a class would probably require that I shut down everything else and concentrate on lectures for a couple of years. Then there would be many, many other skills that I'd have to learn, such as how to sit through a faculty meeting, how to deal with students, etc. It is really not in the cards for me. It's not who I am or what I do. I'm a novelist.

  Neal Stephenson

  Couple, Who I Am, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The hardest thing about moving to California from Connecticut was just missing my family. If I went back, it would be just because I was homesick.

  Kevin Nealon

  Moving, California, Missing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Saturday Night Live was a show that I never thought I would be on, because I didn't do sketch comedy and I didn't do impressions. I was a stand-up.

  Kevin Nealon

  Night, Comedy, Impression

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.

  David Hockney

  Black And White, Color, Ideas

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything. If I could, I'd completely rewrite Fargo Rock City, and every sentence would be just slightly different. In all likelihood, most of them wouldn't be any better. Some of them would just be changed back to whatever form they used to be, before I second-guessed myself the first time.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Crazy, Book, Reading

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• If I were to imagine myself as an idler wheel inside some big mix of gears, then I would be connected to everything. It's not like there's just me and then nothing.

  Fiona Apple

  Idlers, Gears, Wheels

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

  Matisyahu

  Meaningful, Song, Children

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can't write your life story and leave out one of the most important things that happened to you in your life. I think that that would be dishonest, and it would be something people would be very angry about.

  Kris Jenner

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

  Yann Martel

  Thinking, Movie Love, Know How

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm a lone wolf. I run by myself on most things. I've got lots of really great friends, but the thought of being in a long-lasting relationship? Psh, I couldn't last more than six months with somebody, let alone have a father figure around for a kid. I mean, if I could give a kid a father figure, that would be amazing.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Running, Father, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

  Jonas Mekas

  Home, Culture, Return

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I could give advice to anyone, it would be that sometimes the best way you can fight a problem - and this is going to be a little bit controversial - is to not address it.

  Lilly Singh

  Fighting, Giving, Advice

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I do want for people instead of downloading music for free, to start purchasing, that's how everyone makes their living, that's how I make my living too. So, it would be nice for people to start actually paying for it.

  Shanice

  Nice, People, Want

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• I would never want to be a trend-spotter, in any field. I just think I would be bad at it. I have very limited range, in terms of the tone of the show, that I'm capable of making.

  Loren Bouchard

  Thinking, Fields, Tone

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has done far more to repulse me than the Democratic Party has done to appeal to me. But the result in the voting booth would be about the same either way.

  Kevin Drum

  Party, Voting, Done

  "In Politics, Hate > Love" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 27, 2015.

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• From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest and self-destructive behavior. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact.

  Alante Kavaite

  Strong, Writing, Emotional

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails than two. I did it for convenience and I now looking back think that it might have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Two, Mail

  "Transcript: Everything Hillary Clinton Said on the Email Controversy". Press conference, time.com. March 10, 2015.

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