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You can’t save free markets by socialism, I don’t know where this idea ever came from. You save free markets by promoting free markets and sound money and balanced budgets. The whole reason why nobody wants to address the real problem is, we’re spending a trillion dollars a year overseas running an empire, and it’s coming to an end. This country is bankrupt, and we won’t admit it.
~Ron Paul

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it’s integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.
~Kerry Stokes

Humanity as a whole has come to this juncture, wherein if we don’t dare to accept and act on our vulnerabilities, our shortcomings in totality and to embrace failures in same breath as success as an integral part of life, then I fear we are creating a world of zombies!
~Ramana Pemmaraju

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Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to whole new place.
~Jensen Huang

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.
~Calvin Coolidge

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Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook ‒ they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing ‒ so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.
~Mark Zuckerberg

Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I’m not saying that’s the only calling card, but it’s a whole crayon box.
~Barbara Corcoran

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Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
~David Ogilvy

When we show you all these various pieces of content on the site, how frequently do you take the one that we present? And of the one you took, how frequently do you completely watch the whole series? And do you rate it, one to five stars? So if we presented it to you, and you watched it, and you rated it, that’s a big win.
~Ted Sarandos (of Netflix)

Move from selling to serving and you, your business and your whole world will shift.
~Jen Ramsey

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The whole idea behind virtual integration is that it lets you meet customers’ needs faster and more efficiently than any other model. With vertical integration, you can be an efficient producer ‒ as long as the world isn’t changing very much.
~Michael Dell

Bitcoin and the block chain enables a whole new way to incentivize and transact, so change the world with this new tool. Create and build! Surprise us with an idea we have never seen before.
~Adam Draper

I like bubbles and the whole thing. That’s the fun of taking a bath.
(on his new Magic’s Elixir Bubble Bath)
~Earvin Johnson (um… of NBA? 6’9″?)

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I probably spend more on food than a lot of people, and I feel good about the whole food chain I’m supporting when I’m doing it. But even I have to remind myself. I’m always complaining about the prices at the farmer’s market.
~Michael Pollan

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
~Franklin D Roosevelt

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Since the 1970s, I’ve been a big fan of attending conferences as a great way to learn, network, socialize and enjoy a new environment. It’s always refreshing to get out and see a whole new world.
~Mark Skousen (economist)

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.
~Miyamoto Musashi

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As business moves forward, you realize that God has his hand on the whole business and that he brought people to you who are like-minded. It starts with faith.
~Richard DeVos

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
~Camille Pissarro

The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.
~George Akerlof

Refuse to be discouraged or dispirited by the criticisms. Just let the criticisms of your critics become nothing else but an eye opener for you to better or improve your whole self and what you are doing.
~Emeasoba George

Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success. For what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect?
~Bertie C Forbes (Scottish, founder of Forbes mag, father of Malcolm)

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You know a whole lot more about money than you think you do. You’ve only been misled to believe that you don’t know by people who don’t want you to understand how simple money really is.
~John Rocco Savalli

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
~Anon

A rewording of David Starr Jordan [1851-1931] quote: The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

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When life gives you lemons, you don’t make lemonade. You use the seeds to plant a whole orchard and build a new lemonade brand… an entire franchise. Or you could just stay on the bus and drink lemonade someone else has made, from a can.
~Anthon St Maarten

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.
~Robert Townsend

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
~Charles M Schwab

The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can’t quite imagine if you’ve spent your whole career in a corporation.
~Harvey Mackay

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Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
~Albert Einstein

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed ‒ there’s so little competition.
~Elbert Hubbard

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Anybody who accepts mediocrity ‒ in school, on the job, in life ‒ is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.
~Charles Knight

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
~Stephen Covey

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Silos [independents within an org] and bureaucracy are well-oiled machines in corporate America, but they are ultimately perpetuated by individual behavior. If we start behaving differently, we can create change. In other words, shifting your focus onto the team ‒ or the ship as a whole, not just yourself ‒ will have meaningful impact.
~Chris Fussell

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As an assistant you have lots of ideas and suggestions that might be perfect for that moment and time, but you don’t think through all of the ramifications down the road. As a head coach it’s about being conscious of the whole group and what’s best for us long term. And that’s on and off the court.
~Mike Budenholzer (NBA, Phoenix Suns)

It’s not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.
~Chuck Noll (Steeler’s coach, 1987 player’s strike)

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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
~Ted Hughes

The first time you catch a fish, it’s amazing. You make contact with this whole other world that exists, hidden, under the water.
~Jeremy Wade

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Dedicating your life to something, dedicating time to something, ending up achieving it and maybe doing better than that. Me personally, that would be a Stanley Cup. That’s something I’ve dreamed of my whole life. I think that’s why every hockey player at this level plays.
~Jack Hughes (not yet, but scored winning goal for Gold, 2026 Winter Games)

For pretty much my whole life, I’ve been obsessed with the game of hockey, and with getting better at it [16 years]. I’ve worked my tail off every summer to come back better than before. I’ve always believed that hard work can get you anywhere in this sport.
~Johnny Gaudreau

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Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.
~Aly Raisman (Captain 2012/2016 gymnastic teams, Gold)

I would say to always follow your dream. And dream big because my whole career, including any of the things that I’ve accomplished, I never thought in a million years that I would be here. So it just proves that once you believe in yourself, and you put your mind to something, you can do it.
~Simone Biles (gymnastics, Gold w/ Aly Raisman)

Think with your whole body.
~Taisen Deshimaru (Buddhist teacher)

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The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California… that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It’s every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.
~Bill Simmons

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing’s ever been as fun as baseball.
~Mickey Mantle (Yankee)

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I train to quite an intense level because Formula 1 is so physical ‒ the G-forces, the demands on your body. Your heart rate is 150, 160 through the whole race. On qualifying lap, your heart rate can be up to 180, 190, under tough conditions.
~Lewis Hamilton

Basically, in the fight-or-flight response, the objective is to get away from the source of threat. All of our muscles prepare for this escape by increasing their tension level, our heart rate and respiration increase, and our whole basic metabolic system is flooded with adrenaline.
~Peter A Levine

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.
~Ayrton Senna (on Formula 1 racing’s ‘flow state’)

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.
~Damon Hill

I never let my gender define me but in my whole driving career I only ever did one interview not being asked about being a female.
~Susie Wolff

There is such a history and such a mystique around the name of Ferrari and the success that it has had. The whole imagery and legend of the red cars and what they mean to the world of automobiles and racing itself. It is hard to imagine F1 without them.
~Albert II, Prince of Monaco

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
~Roland Barthes

I am living my childhood dream of racing in Formula 1 and I’ve put my whole life into achieving that dream so it is only natural for me to be giving absolutely everything I’ve got, to achieve success in racing and the day I no longer do that I will retire from racing immediately.
~Kevin Magnussen

Racing is the only time I feel whole.
~James Dean (…and died thus, 09/30/55)

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I’ve done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my game, working on the time off that I’ve had from the game, just getting myself prepared mentally and physically for the season.
~Grant Hill

We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.
~Shaquille O’Neal

I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.
~Kevin Johnson

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Throughout my whole football career, I have always known I wasn’t the fastest guy.
~Patrick Mahomes (QB, 3 Super Bowl wins)

I just wrap my arms around the whole backfield and peel ’em one by one until I get to the ball carrier. Him I keep.
~Big Daddy Lipscomb

I would compare kicking to being a closer in baseball. This whole game gets played, or the cake is made in front of you, so to speak, and you have to turn around and put the icing on the cake.
~Adam Vinatieri

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I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that’s why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.
~Johnny Weir (skate)

I remember my mom let me stay up late and watch Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan compete in the 1998 Olympic Games. I made paper medals and wore them the whole night. I didn’t start skating until 2000, but I was so inspired by their skating that it was why I wanted to start.
~Adam Rippon (skate/media)

I’m going into my first Olympics, whereas people I’m racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there’s more pressure on them to perform. I’ve still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.
~Adam Peaty (Gold, breaststroke, 2016 Rio)

I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I’d like to be that guy now.
~Mark Spitz (7 Golds, setting records in each event, 1972 Games)

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I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in steel-toed boots! But, of course, he’s proud of me and proud of the boxer that I became.
~Laila Ali

At 19, I decided to turn professional and accepted my first fight for $250 at the Atlantis Hotel, Atlantic City, on October 3 1985. It set up my whole career and life.
~Chris Eubank Sr

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When I first got into wrestling as a kid, I would read all of the wrestling magazines I could get my hands on. There was a satisfaction discovering that there was a whole wrestling world that existed that you didn’t see on TV on Saturday morning. There was this idea that there was this stuff going on there that they didn’t want us to see.
~Box Brown

I can’t remember the last time I went in the ring feeling whole. The pain is something you learn to live with. Some guys don’t and they don’t last.
~Rocky Johnson (WWE)

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I’ve been the underdog my whole life.
~Dustin Poirier ((MMA)

I’ve been doubted my whole life, especially coming out of college with the injuries I had.
~Frank Gore (NFL, 16 yrs)

My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I’m too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn’t know my story. Because if they did, they’d know that anything is possible.
~Jimmy Butler (six-time NBA All-Star)

I’ve always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, ‘I’m not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I’m going to go at him.’ That’s how it’s been my whole life.
~Jeremy Lin (NBA)

In the tennis world, there weren’t a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball.
~Michael Chang

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You cannot train alone and expect to run a fast time. There is a formula: 100% of me is nothing compared to 1% of the whole team. And that’s teamwork. That’s what I value.
~Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya, distance runner, former marathon record holder)

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
~Babe Ruth

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.
~Jocko Willink (trained SEAL teams)

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The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we’re in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
~Vin Diesel

We should explain this as like a whole other challenge of gameplay, is when you’re on like a time limit. I have to watch my kids in three minutes right now, and I’m on the very last part of Mega Man X. That is tense shit.
~James Rolfe

Small things sometimes mean a whole lot!
~DanTDM (game master)

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When you’ve done something for more than a third of your life, your whole adult life, and then all of a sudden you’re going to have to switch off and say, ‘No more,’ you want to grasp as much of it and enjoy the last few years of it as much as you can. Because you can’t get those years back.
~Brian O’Driscoll (Irish, rugby)

The closer I get to retirement, the more I feel it will be a huge change, a shock, because athletics has been the core of my whole life. I know I’ll miss the feeling of running fast, the adrenaline rush, and hearing the crowd cheering me on.
~Jessica Ennis-Hill (heptathlon star, Gold)

All the pain I had, it was not worth it. My ankle created so many problems, it affected my day-to-day living. But at that time football was my whole life. Now I am older, I have had a life without football. You can still have a good life ‒ there is more than football.
~Marco van Basten

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You can easily get depressed. Usually, if you play sports, you think that one match or one game is very important, and when you lose it, you think your whole world is over.
~Naomi Osaka

Once I serve well, my whole game goes up.
~Serena Williams

God, when I was about nine or ten years old, my whole summers were spent playing tennis. I was there from when it opened till when it closed. They had to kick me off the courts, I loved it so much.
~Douglas Henshall

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I remember, when I was growing up in Baltimore, we’d get on a streetcar and go down to see the Orioles, and for a couple of bucks, you could get a pretty good seat. Kids can’t do that anymore. So I think that changes the whole nature of sports.
~Frank Deford

In sport, when you have tournaments and finals, these are set up in a way to provide excitement and opportunity in a one-off game. It never really tells the whole picture.
~Kane Williamson

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.
~Charles Williams

If I go into years only thinking about medals I’m missing the whole meaning of what I’ve always been trying to do, which is trying to push myself and push the barriers of what is possible.
~Armand Duplantis (pole vault)

You can’t just be one of those guys where the whole league knows what you are and categorizes you as that and you accept that. I want to be one of those guys who expands his zone. Kind of like what Kawhi did.
~Bam Adebayo (NBA)

It’s just so much fun when you’re working with folks who are not just at the top of their game but reinventing the game. It’s like a whole new machine.
~Rege-Jean Page (actor)

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Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.
~Rick Reilly

You have competition throughout your whole life, and it only makes you better. That competitive edge gives you extra motivation.
~Danny Welbeck (soccer)

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When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you’re asked to different roles ‒ do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven’t had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.
~Kyle MacLachlan

My whole M.O. in my 20s was being in as many different types of films as you can. Working with as many different types of directors as you can. I think, in part, that’s what I wanted to do as an actor.
~Anne Hathaway

Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes ‒ that’s what it is, as an actor.
~Viola Davis

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Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
~Glenda Jackson

Suddenly in the ’50s, a whole new group of actors came out: Marlon Brando, James Dean and Paul Newman, who were very moody and realistic. So actors like myself and Basil Rathbone and so on didn’t really fit into those realistic dramas and we began to do costume pictures. This was really the only place we could go on working if we wanted to survive as actors. Most of the things of my later career have been costume pictures. They require a certain knowledge of the language, they require enunciation and a poetic approach to the language. Really, the one thing we have over the apes is our language, isn’t it? That’s about all.
~Vincent Price

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I have played some wonderful leading roles on stage and had the whole ‘China Beach‘ years where I really played a leading man on that. That was a fun change for a character actor. But I’m perfectly happy going back to building my gallery of memorable character roles.
~Robert Picardo

Based on the role’s requirement whether it needs genuine portrayal or going over the top, I understand the whole process and deliver the performance.
~Supriya Pathak

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I feel like I’m attracted to characters who have one foot firmly planted on the ground. And their heads up in the clouds somewhere. Practical dreamers. They try to impress you that they’ve got this whole thing figured out, but there’s more going on inside their heads than you might imagine.
~Mary Steenburgen

When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the whole thing terrifying. I cried myself to sleep once because I thought my teacher was going to give me the lead role. I never imagined acting was a viable career.
~Emily Berrington

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
~Michelangelo Antonioni

Sometimes, you don’t know what’s going to happen to your character until the night before you shoot the scene. So, sometimes, you get a great big surprise at the very last minute, which is scary sometimes. You don’t have a whole lot of time to prepare.
~Norbert Leo Butz

I absolutely don’t relate to being beaten down my whole life ‒ I had amazing opportunities at a young age ‒ but there is still in many, many people’s minds the notion that I’ll never be able to escape Harry Potter.
~Daniel Radcliffe

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I always had dreams, my whole life, of being somebody special. Someone out in the world that everybody knew of and everybody liked. Somebody unique. Even when I was down on my luck, in my head I still had those dreams.
~Michael Sorrentino (TV personality)

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role ‒ unless you’re just vain about celebrity. You’re always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.
~Jonny Lee Miller

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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
~Rachel Griffiths (AACTA Award, Muriel’s Wedding)

I don’t want to be Batman. Let Val Kilmer do it. I just want to be Uncle Batman. I have this whole ‘warm relationship’ plot in my mind. In the final scenes, the new Batmobile breaks down, the new Batman’s stranded on the side of the road. We grab our old Batmobile, pick him up and drive away.
~Adam West

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I feed on other people’s creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I’ve wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.
~James Cameron

For me, the movie’s always evolving as I’m doing it. I throw things in as we shoot, and I take things out as we go. I want to create a whole life and then select the pieces that best sort of describe it later, you know? So there’s a lot of wastage when I make a film.
~Andrew Dominik

I never rehearse scenes with the whole ensemble, because I need to preserve some surprise. Instead, I work with the cast individually on their characters.
~Arnaud Desplechin (French Director)

The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.
~Steven Spielberg

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For ‘Star Wars’ I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.
~George Lucas

In ‘Tintin,’ it’s like a live-action role. You’re living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it’s a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You’re responsible for a small part.
~Andy Serkis

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I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn’t end, I’ll go to a French movie. That’s a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can’t just build off the first one or play variations.
~Joss Whedon

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he’s coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.
~Michael Fassbender

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During shooting, you have the idea, like, of this certain dress on this actress, but it’s not to fit, so you have to make all of these alterations and modifications. So in a way, I build the characters with the cast, and it’s sort of custom-made, the whole process, and then you have to make all of these adjustments.
~Wong Kar-wai (Hong Kong filmmaker)

Mo-cap work* is less technical than you’d expect. Once you have it all set up you’re free to do the whole scene in one take rather than doing a lot of different shots and different takes like you do in a movie. You’ve got that one go at it and you’ve got a lot of freedom. You can really express yourself – more like doing theatre than doing a movie.
~Ralph Ineson

*recording the physical movements of real actors, translating that data into digital 3D models for movies, video games, virtual reality

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I come out of repertory theatre so I’ve been working under pressure my whole career.
~Wesley Snipes

With ‘Stones in His Pockets‘ you have effectively a bare stage with two actors and yet a whole world in rural Ireland is created. There’s the countryside, the bar interior, the dressing room and the star’s bedroom.
~Ian McElhinney

I think it’s lovely that women are afforded attention on the stage in terms of their inner journeys, their emotional lives. That’s the great harvest, the great writing available to women. Whether that makes it to the screen, that’s a whole other conversation.
~Diane Lane

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I want to get into some television. There might be a perception about me being only a movie actor, you know, and there’s this whole new sort of frontier opening up in that medium.
~Mark Ruffalo

I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.
~Bill Lawrence

I’ve had inquiries for things like TV show ‘Splash,’ where people go out in front of the whole nation in a bikini. But I think bikinis are just for the beach.
~Rachel Riley

TV is the place for writers to live. This is where you have creative control and you’re constantly writing. ‘Twilight’ had almost a TV schedule to it. I was constantly working on these projects. There was not a whole lot of lull
~Melissa Rosenberg

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~Kelvin Craig: Whole (8:13) a phone call, reconnecting, and…

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~NITVShorts: The Phone Call (21:30) Oscar quality tears, surprise ending

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There’s nothing better than having a bright, blinding light in your face and being guided by big, rolling laughter. There’s nothing more encouraging than hearing that huge sound. I’ve waited my whole life to hear that. You come away with the biggest high of your life.
~Michael McIntyre (comedian)

When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex. It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
~Janis Joplin

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry ‒ just making them feel ‒ is paramount to me.
~Stephen Sondheim

Humor ‒ the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
~Theo Angelopoulos (Greek filmmaker)

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When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh’s production of ‘Oliver!’ when it came to Toronto. Just getting the role shocked my whole family, and I don’t think I realized until then just how much I loved getting up in front of people and performing.
~Jake Epstein

The whole motivation for any performer is ‘Look at me, Ma.’
~Lenny Bruce

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We’re not talking about historical accuracy, we’re talking about art. I’ve set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised.
~David Assael (producer, Star Trek: Next Gen, Miami Vice, etc)

There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
~Mao Zedong

Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society ‒ not the whole outlook, and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there.
~Aung San Suu Kyi

There’s this big pie in show business, and you physically can’t eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.
~Jay Leno

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The whole mythological side of ‘Twin Peaks‘ was really down to me, and I’ve always known about the Theosophical writers and that whole group around the Order of the Golden Dawn in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century – W. B. Yeats, Madame Blavatsky, and a woman called Alice Bailey, a very interesting writer.
~Mark Frost

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.
~John Hartford

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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite ‒ that particular peach is but a detail.
~Pablo Picasso

Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won’t know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
~Alberto Giacometti (Swiss painter/sculptor)

I have seen this whole process of films releasing, becoming hits or flops, for too long now to expect things to do well. If I expect a film to do well, then it is for somebody else’s sake, not for my own. I do my work, and if you feel that my work is improving from film to film, then I have done my part of the job.
~Pooja Bhatt (Indian actor/director)

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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
~Billy Joel

I’m used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there’s a whole real world that exists that is different from your day-to-day reality.
~Ronald D Moore (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Outlander)

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There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn’t.
~Paul Simonon

I hate just showing up, hitting a mark, doing your work, and going home. It’s very boring. But being part of the creation of the whole thing is very exciting.
~Ben Gazzara

It’s the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process ‒ which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
~Pankaj Patel

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But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
~Roger McGuinn (of the Byrds)

I write a lot of songs people don’t hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish ’em all. I don’t think there’s a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.
~Bob Seger

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
~Thomas Wolfe

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.
~Stella Adler (actress/acting coach)

After I spent my whole life chasing wings, I learned that I don’t need them to fly.
~Wesley D’Amico (Brazilian artist)

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To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
~Maria Montessori

You’re here to sweat. This program is live. There’s about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember ‒ one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.
~Paul Hogan (of Crocodile Dundee)

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
~Daniel H Wilson

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
~Albert Camus

That’s what has been so much fun about the whole creative process. You can make your characters have adventures that you haven’t had and might wish to have.
~Tess Daly (TV presenter)

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We have to stop thinking about diversity and start thinking about inclusion. That’s what you can take from August Wilson. That there are whole cultures out there living experiences exactly like yours, and their stories can be just as dynamic, sold in the foreign market, put as many butts in the seats as any Caucasian movie out there.
~Viola Davis

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
~Margaret Mead

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I’ve largely focused on Japan my whole career, so I was interested to see how my music would be received by people of different backgrounds, religions and cultures.
~Joe Hisaishi

The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world.
~Hu Jintao

The whole point of creativity is that it has no boundaries of language, region, and age.
~Aditi Rao Hydari

What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you’re not really learning much.
~Damon Albarn

One wants one’s work to be the world, but of course it’s never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.
~Jasper Johns (painter/sculptor)

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This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.
~Christopher Alexander (architect/design theorist)

When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed ‒ it becomes part of a greater whole.
~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it’s a small version of the whole building; that’s why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.
~Charles Jencks

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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
~Hans Hofmann

The artist’s signature shows the whole story on a white canvas.”
~Wesley D’Amico

Since Courbet, it’s been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. That was everyone’s error. The retinal shudder! Before, painting had other functions: it could be religious, philosophical, moral… our whole century is completely retinal, except for the Surrealists, who tried to go outside it somewhat.
~Marcel Duchamp (retinal art appeals to visual beauty/pleasure, not intellect)

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Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country’s heritage, but the dance speaks to everyone… Otherwise, it wouldn’t work.
~Alvin Ailey

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
~Martha Graham

The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you’re asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.
~Penelope Cruz

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I go to different places all the time. And I try to be as discreet as I can. My whole thing is to be invisible. You get more natural pictures that way, too.
~Bill Cunningham

There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who’ve only had museum shows but couldn’t survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I’ve done absolutely everything.
~Duane Michals

You look through the viewfinder and know that it is your responsibility and your art and your passion to look at everything in that frame as part of a whole that you need to shape. There’s nothing in that frame which should go unnoticed. Then that’s what it means to be thinking and seeing as a photographer.
~Jack Leigh

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Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
~Marilyn Monroe

My head been on a swivel before I was rapping. So, do my head not supposed to be on the swivel? If you’ve been like this your whole life, do it stop because you got money now? Do it stop because everybody and their momma looking at you now?
~King Von

The whole celebrity culture thing ‒ I’m fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
~Anderson Cooper

We’ve been really lucky. We’ve gotten a lot of airplay over the years. I guess people keep requesting our songs on the radio, because Lord knows I don’t do a whole lot to promote myself.
~Bob Seger

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For me, fragrances are very ‒ one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It’s what you want to smell like, it’s memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you’re a lover of scent, it’s a very kind of particular and evocative thing.
~Chris Pine

I never dress the same way for a week ‒ I’ll dress like a whole other person the next week.
~Lil Peep

The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
~Christian Dior

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I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse.
~Steve Albini (musician/engineer/journalist)

We design for a whole range of ages and body types, and we always have done. What’s great about us is that the common thing that they all like is an accessible eccentricity of an accessible flamboyance, and I think the super thing about that, it isn’t age-specific: you’re not only dressing 25-year-olds; we’re dressing women from 25 to 65+.
~Giles Deacon

Many of us in the PR business, however, feel the change in a very tangible way, because this industry now requires a whole other type of quality, a different way of focusing on things, a different language and way of expression, and an array of other tools, advance preparation being first and foremost. You just have to be hyperprepared for all kinds of situations.
~Maxim Behar

I’m not very materialistic ‒ I don’t have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.
~Taylor Kinney

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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
~Quincy Jones

Extracting the meat from a whole crab is a time-consuming job ‒ picking all the meat out of the legs, claws and body, double-checking for bits of shells, etc. But the flavour makes it worth it…
~Monica Galetti

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Don’t underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn’t have enough workspace ‒ and they almost never do ‒ set up a table right next to your grill.
~Bobby Flay

Groceries became a revelation: the people coming out with bundles of food. It’s all like a great ceremony, and the whole drudgery of shopping has become my inspiration.
~Corita Kent

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Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie.
~Michael Greger

Whole grain and wheat can’t be beat, the whiter the bread the sooner you’re dead.
~Johnny Wowk (aka: Johnny The Walker)

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
~Jamie Oliver

Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.
~Justine Larbalestier

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§ MUSIC:

Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That’s when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out to the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum.
~Jeffrey Vlaming

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, ‘Is there a meaning to music’ My answer would be, ‘Yes.’ And ‘Can you state in so many words what the meaning is’ My answer to that would be, ‘No.’
~Aaron Copland

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.
~Virgil Thomson

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Like anything important, anything you need people to hear ‒ you’ve got to have music for it. You’ve got to make it at least a little piece of a song or sometimes a whole song.
~Trey Parker

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
~Plato

When I wrote ‘Pink Houses,’ nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can’t see the TV without hearing commercials with ‘Listen to the heartbeat of America,’ or ‘Born the American way.’ That whole America thing now ‒ I hate it.
~John Mellencamp

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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
~Daniel Barenboim

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Prince turned experimental music into pop music. ‘When Doves Cry,‘ the whole ‘Purple Rain’ soundtrack ‒ he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt ‘House of Balloons‘ was.
~The Weeknd

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That’s the whole vibe. That’s the point ‒ is that it’s great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it’s a presentation. There’s a showmanship about it. And that’s why I wanted to be a pop star.
~Adam Lambert (musician/actor)

I don’t know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it’s made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.
~Ennio Morricone

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In a long meter hymn, a singer ‒ they call it ‘lays out a line.’ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.
~Maya Angelou

They say a midget standing on a giant’s shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.
~Jay-Z

A whole bunch of ‘ayes’ and a whole bunch of ‘yeahs.’ That’s it. That’s all I do. I say yeah. I tell myself that I’m not gon’ go over 80. I say, like, 79 yeahs, and it works. We what you call mumble rappers. So you say ‘yeah’ after everything and make it rhyme no matter what it is.
~Lil Uzi Vert

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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
~Adam Levine

The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don’t get me wrong ‒ I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.
~Damon Albarn (of Blur)

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Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show ‒ that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.
~Drake

I was born into hip hop and reggae, and then I started listening to more hardcore and punk bands like Bad Brains and the Suicidal Tendencies; they opened up a whole new world for me. They had something to say, and I could relate to them.
~Sonny Sandoval (of P.O.D.)

I was into punk rock my whole life. I never listened to the Eagles. I never listened to things that were getting Grammys. So getting a Grammy nomination wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t meaningful.
~James Murphy (electronica)

The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go’s ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn’t start a band if you didn’t know how to play an instrument. But when punk happened it was like, ‘Oh, it doesn’t matter if you can play or not. Go ahead, make a band.’ And that’s exactly what the Go-Go’s did.
~Jane Wiedlin

I’ve listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.
~Ry Cooder

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The emphasis in each piece is on building a whole, totally integrated structure. In doing this, we try to carry on ‒ in ensemble as well as solo sections ‒ the mood of a jazz soloist. I mean that principle of kinetic improvisation that keeps a jazz solo building.
~Cecil Taylor (piano/poet)

I start from one point and go as far as possible. But, unfortunately, I never lose my way. I ‘localize,’ which is to say that I think always in a given space. I rarely think of the whole of a solo, and only very briefly. I always return to the small part of the solo that I was in the process of playing.
~John Coltrane (sax)

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 (piano)

It’s not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
~Herbie Hancock (piano)

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I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.
~Louis Armstrong

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.
~Sarah Vowell

I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.
~Louis Armstrong

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The whole world has changed much since the ’80’s. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn’t the case in the early ’80’s.
~Sheena Easton

I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confused, so I grew up listening to music from all around the world.
~Sophie Hawley-Weld (of Sofi Tukker)

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It’s terrible for the culture of music.
~Tom Waits

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Music is your way to change the frequencies of everything around you and move your own body, move your whole environment.
~Kali Uchis

Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It’s become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock.
~David Bowie

When movement isn’t enough, you dance, or when speaking isn’t enough, you sing. When it’s organic, and it’s earned like that in a musical, that’s when it works, and then there’s nothing like it because it’s this thing that takes you to a whole ‘nother level, you know?
~Rob Marshall

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I’m left-handed, and it’s not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They’re cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small… I’ve only owned two of them.
~Kurt Cobain

I wish they’d had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would’ve been straightened out.
~Jimi Hendrix

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I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn’t pursue it. I feel like I’m cheating sometimes.
~Ben E King

I never thought in my whole life of becoming a heavy metal singer, but it just happened because I took the challenge.
~Tarja Turunen (classically trained)

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I’m trying my best. So I’ve had a ‘blood, guts and glory’ approach through my whole life.
~Ali Larter

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What I’m doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It’s like anything else. The only time it doesn’t really feel like work to me is when I’m on stage and doing what I’ve prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.
~Gretchen Wilson (country songstress)

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.
~Ariana Grande

My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
~Camaron Marvel Ochs

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Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning.
~Bruce Springsteen

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Every riff had to be perfect and heavy, collectively what we wanted it to be. If there was one person in the room who went, ‘Heh, I don’t think it is there yet, guys,’ we’d scrap the whole song. I think that took a little bit of songwriting maturity for us.
~Johnny Christ (bassist, of Avenged Sevenfold)

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The whole background of ‘Avian’ is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.
~Mac Miller

I hope we can keep doing it this way ‒ making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.
~Damon Albarn (Britpop conceptualist of Blur)

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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, ‘Hey, that guy can do anything. He’s the Evel Knievel of music. He’s jumping over 15 buses!’
~R Kelly

The whole point of an album is to understand the artist and enjoy the music ‒ it’s supposed to make you want to go to a concert to see them in the flesh and get the album on vinyl and be a part of everything. That’s what I’m about.
~Little Simz (aka: Simbiatu “Simbi” Abisola Abiola Ajikawo)

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Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
~Johnny Cash

Being from a town of 200 people, there’s not a whole lot to do except sit around the kitchen table and tell stories ‒ the kind of stories that get better every single time that you hear ’em. That’s exactly how country music is for me.
~Lainey Wilson

It sounds like a cliche, but it… you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.
~Kenny Chesney

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.
~Harlan Howard (4,000+ songs, 100+ on country musics top 10)

First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of ‘daddied’ me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it’s the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.
~Randy Houser

When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.
~Dierks Bentley

I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening ‒ the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.
~John Coltrane

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My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
~Jimi Hendrix

My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.
~Kid Cudi

You can literally create a whole song in your bedroom, and it can affect millions of people.
~Olivia Rodrigo

Once a song’s out there, it’s no longer mine. And that’s the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
~Sade Adu

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I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, ‘I love you.’ I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I’ve done my job in a world that’s getting colder and colder by the day.
~Lionel Richie

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I can’t read, I don’t know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight.
~Albert King (singing the blues)

The chicken that is raised by the eagle, strives to fly higher and higher, but the eagle that is raised by the chicken, spends its whole life not knowing what it is to fly.
~Wesley D’Amico

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
~Blaise Pascal

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My parents were in law enforcement, and I didn’t really have any movie influences until I got out of Florida and went to college in Boston. Then I was suddenly exposed to Hitchcock and noir, and I took a Fassbender class at art school ‒ by accident ‒ and one in Indian cinema ‒ which completely overwhelmed me. It was this whole new world to me.
~Kelly Reichardt (director/screenwriter)

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
~Aristotle

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You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.
~Vivienne Westwood

A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
~W E B Du Bois

I think it goes back to whether or not race and class ‒ that is, race and poverty ‒ is not becoming even more of a constraint. Because with the failing public schools, I worry that the way that my grandparents got out of poverty, the way that my parents became educated, is just not going to be there for a whole bunch of kids.
~Condoleezza Rice (former Secretary of State)

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.
~H L Mencken

My whole goal in all of high school was to never go to college.
~MrBeast

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I went to a high school that taught me to be more worldly. The whole curriculum was very globally based. We learned a lot about other cultures and reflected on them.
~Lauren Jauregui

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‘studies’ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‘studies’ are about propaganda rather than serious education.
~Thomas Sowell

Stanford opened up a whole different perspective for me. I learned how to take my own passions and apply them to so many different topics, to open up the way I saw things and own the things that made me unique.
~Jessica Mendoza

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don’t cost much to be housed.
~Terry Eagleton

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The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn’t possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn’t have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities. [ie: exorbitant student loans made cutting taxes possible]
~Gail Collins

It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it’s like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you’re silent and listening to an idiot. That’s an epitomizing idea, getting called ‘Nothing’ for your whole high school experience.
~Ezra Miller (actor)

You are educated when you learn to coexist with others and as a result you enhance the whole existence.
~Debasish Mridha, MD

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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
~Theodore Roosevelt

If a man is stealing nuts and bolts from a railway track, and, in order to change him, you send him to college, at the end of his education, he will steal the whole railway track.
~D L Moody

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I’ve always believed in education and in good teaching that is guided by truth. But after a lifetime of educational pursuit, I now ask, what is true education and who decides on what is good teaching? This search has taken me through the spiritual, the delusional, social, physical, the psychological, the philosophical ‒ and back again. And I have made the most important educational discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my whole life: It is only through kindness that any true lesson can be taught and that I’m only here to help my students find that kindness. They are all my education, they are all my good teaching, they are my truth, they are my kindness.
~Paul F Meekin

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.
~Anatole France

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One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
~Evan Esar

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large‒and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.
~Clark Kerr

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From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.
~R D Laing

The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.
~Albert Einstein

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All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.
~Sir Richard Francis Burton

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
~Sydney J Harris

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Dolly Tributes
Enya: Goodbye Dolly (8:26)

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~Rod Stewart & Bruce Springsteen: Sad Tribute To Dolly Parton (8:07)

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~Miley Cyrus: Goodbye Godmother (4:33)

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~Dolly Parton: Light of a Clear Blue Morning • ft Lainey Wilson, Miley Cyrus, Queen Latifah & Reba (3:48)

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We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you’re still around after you’re gone.
~David Lowery

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~DisneyMusicVEVO: Zayn, Zhavia Ward • A Whole New World ‒ from Aladdin (3:09) fantasy on the big screen

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~Haru Cat: Whole World (1:05) familiar song to a parade of weird images

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~Led Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Love (4:48) the whole package

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~woodrailking: April Wine • the whole worlds going crazy (2:29) Canadian rock

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~AC/DC: Whole Lotta Rosie (5:42) energetic performance/audience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMvE0yFnR0I

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~Ifasul: The Dillards • The Whole World ‘Round (2:50) accomplished folk

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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
~Alphonse de Lamartine

The Night has a thousand eyes, / And the Day but one; / Yet the light of the bright world dies / With the dying sun. / The mind has a thousand eyes, / And the heart but one; / Yet the light of a whole life dies / When love is done.
~Francis William Bourdillon

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Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.
~Richard Dawkins

Love is the cause of all the wars and fighting in the world, perhaps, the whole universe.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
~Alexander Herzen (Russian writer, 1812-1870)

With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.
~Ilsa Lund (in Casablanca)

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Two halves don’t make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn’t doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.
~Jason Mraz

The half is greater than the whole.
~Hesiod

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I will make up a crush, you hear me?! I will look at a guy and say, for two months at least, ‘I think you’re cute.’ And then I can be psycho. I will go in my head and make a whole life with him, he don’t even understand why I’m mad at him. I’m like… ’cause you came in late last night!’ And he’s like, ‘I don’t even know you.’
~Ester Dean

It’s hard for me to trust people, and especially girls it’s ‒ I don’t really like doing the whole opening-up thing with girls.
~The Kid Laroi

Merrill: Morgan, this crop stuff is just about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend their whole lives. They’re like thirty now. They make up secret codes and analyze Greek mythology and make secret societies where other guys who never had girlfriends can join in. They do stupid crap like this to feel special. It’s a scam. Nerds were doin’ it twenty five years ago and new nerds are doing it again.
~in Signs

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Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
~Erich Fromm

You were made perfectly to be loved ‒ and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I’d spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a male partner, someone I woke up with and went to sleep with every night.
~Rebecca Traister (journalist, women’s issues)

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I’m lying in my bed, blanket is warm, / this body will never keep me safe from harm. / I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. / Touch my skin to keep me whole. / If only you’d come back to me. To feel you at my side, / wouldn’t need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.
~Jeff Buckley (from Mojo Pin)

You’re never really alive until you skip a heart-beat, and you don’t really skip a heart-beat until you see someone whose smile lights up the whole room.
~Sana Dabbas

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything
~Jose Marti

When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.
~Roger Zelazny

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We don’t have all this gay-bashing crime. You don’t see that. It’s not there. That is not really happening in Jamaica. But because a few artists basically sing it and put records out and the media runs with it, then the stigma becomes big, and now we’re trapped with that whole thing. It’s really sad.
~Shaggy

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations ‒ but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.
~Junot Diaz

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
~Doug Stanhope

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Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They don’t ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like ‘maybe we should just be friends’ or ‘how very perceptive’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
~Neil Gaiman (in The Sandman)

To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage in a life that doesn’t come with guarantees –these are risks that involve vulnerability and often pain. But, I’m learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude and grace.
~Brené Brown

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Feelings come in a daisy chain. All entwined together and beautiful as a whole, but there are always the weak flowers somewhere in the links.
~Emily Kate Milne

Hey, you know what your grandpa told me? Said, Always have a love song for your woman. This way, when they get to fussin’… You just sing that song to yourself. When you’re through, she’ll be done and you can get back to what you want, the lovin’. ‘Cause that’s all that fussing is anyway. Whole lotta lovin’.
~Montrose Freeman

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Being able to laugh at ourselves and at the comical aspects of sex will take the pressure off the whole experience.
~Oscar Auliq-Ice

I believe that organic sex, body against body, skin area against skin area, is becoming no longer possible, simply because if anything is to have any meaning for us it must take place in terms of the values and experiences of the media landscape. What we’re getting is a whole new order of sexual fantasies, involving a different order of experiences, like car crashes, like travelling in jet aircraft, the whole overlay of new technologies, architecture, interior design, communications, transport, merchandising. These things are beginning to reach into our lives and change the interior design of our sexual fantasies. We’ve got to recognize that what one sees through the window of the TV screen is as important as what one sees through a window on the street.
~J G Ballard

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.
~Julie Burchill

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A friend is someone who gathers all your pieces that make you whole and nurtures them the same. The good and bad.
~Lisa Haisha

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
~Mark Twain

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry people that I wasn’t really in love with, and who weren’t right for me, because I hoped they would be.
~Lana Wood

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If you show love to others throughout your life, and not just to your loved ones, your life will be filled with a whole new, higher meaning.
~Oscar Auliq-Ice

Your love renders me into my original self and makes me feel whole again.
~Heather Lydia Thornhill

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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
~Hamilton Wright Mabie (essayist)

It’s no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.
~Saadi Shirazi (Persian poet)

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The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one’s whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.
~Ellen Key

Being a parent is the most difficult profession in the whole universe. Thank God that you’re still single.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one’s children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
~Bruno Bettelheim

Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other ‒ the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.
~Amity Gaige (novelist)

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Our most fundamental social need, it turns out, to my amazement, is love. Now, I’m not a hippie-dippie whatever. If you look at the literature, our most fundamental need for children is an environment of maximum love, and that they can be hugged, kissed, and loved. That’s what humanises us and allows us to realise our whole dimension.
~David Suzuki

My mom and my dad was the best example of unconditional love I could see as a kid. I’ve known it my whole life. Interactions, kissing, hugging ‒ it definitely wasn’t the fake love.
~BJ the Chicago Kid

My family is big, complicated, and beautiful ‒ and keeps me smiling and whole. It’s so important to have family, whether it’s biological family, good friends, foster families, or a group of aunties who are raising you. The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me ‒ to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.
~Jacqueline Woodson

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My family and I built my whole career from scratch.
~Maria Sharapova (Russian, tennis)

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.
~DJ Khaled

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
~Pope John Paul II

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Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.
~Taylor Hanson (of Hanson)

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
~James Baldwin

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.
~Adam Sandler

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
~Buffalo Bill

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Sometimes a mother finds in her midst a handicapped child, one child who is abnormal mentally or physically. Then, a whole new set of baffling difficulties presents themselves, and then fervently she prays and how diligently she searches every avenue to find an answer to that child’s problems.
~Rose Kennedy

I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
~Anne Lamott

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Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young… This whole idea of ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ is exactly how we’re supposed to live.
~Helen Fisher

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
~Toni Morrison

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Ever since I felt the baby kick, it’s such an amazing feeling, and it’s really allowed me to embrace it. Once you feel this movement inside, it’s just a whole different experience, so I love it now. It was tough at the beginning, but I’m past all that, and I love it now.
~Kim Kardashian

With all the hundreds of dresses and shoes I have, it would be an absolute crime if I don’t have a little girl. I have a whole room at home filled with my stage wear.
~Katherine Jenkins

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My whole damn family was nice. I don’t think I’ve imagined it. It’s true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.
~Henry Fonda

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
~Jerry Seinfeld

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The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks.
~Jean Piaget

Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
~Dag Hammarskjld

We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.
~Milan Kundera

Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some doors and close others.
~Maya Hawke

It’s interesting how things you hear as a kid take on a whole new meaning when you are an adult.
~Lena Waithe

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I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone… just like everybody else.
~Michael Cera

When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
~Mitski

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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole business of marshaling one’s energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
~Hume Cronyn

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I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to… It’s a whole different lens you look through the older you get.
~Andre Agassi

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find ‒ at the age of fifty, say ‒ that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about…It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
~Agatha Christie

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity… I didn’t feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not‒more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around living becomes the act of giving.
~Beverly Sills

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world‒art, or philosophy, or learning‒regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
~Freya Stark

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Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand Who saith, “A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!”
~Robert Browning

It’s astonishing that God’s sunsets are often better than his sunrises. Maybe therein lies the truth of life. Age spells humility. Humility wins over ego always..and maybe that will make our sunsets so much better than our sunrises. Nature is so beautifully balanced..and we are part of nature. Just a small part of the whole..
~Rooma Mehra

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Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole ‒ I can’t imagine a life without them.
~Jacqueline Woodson

Sometimes you meet people, and you somehow feel like you’ve known them your whole life.
~Katherine Waterston

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A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them ‒ they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they’re going to tell you I’ve been DJ Khaled my whole life.
~DJ Khaled

You don’t have to have anything in common with people you’ve known since you were five. With old friends, you’ve got your whole life in common.
~Lyle Lovett

I don’t like the whole off-and-on thing. I don’t like ‘taking a break.’ Either you’re with me, or you’re not. And that’s how I kind of deal.
~Selena Gomez

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
~Zora Neale Hurston

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
~Goethe

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Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman’s whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
~Lord Byron

A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections.
~Washington Irving

If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
~Todd Akin (famously, medically untrue)

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
~Brigid Brophy (Brit literary critic/polemicist)

The people I’m furious with are the Women’s Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
~Anita Loos

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A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
~Anna Held

Being a part of this whole female rap movement, wave, whatever you want to call it, is so cool. You’ve got so many of us. There’s like, different skin tones, different aesthetics, different accents, just like, a whole different style.
~Latto

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What’s so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for ‘Real Women Have Curves‘.
~America Ferrera

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.
~Deborah Sampson (disguised Revolutionary War soldier hero, 21 y/o)

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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
~Plato

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people ‒ women as well as men.
~Susan B Anthony

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
~Isabel Allende (Chile)

If you educate a man you educate an individual but if you educate a woman you educate a whole nation
~Dr James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the “division” of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
~Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex, 1950)

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The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.
~Coretta Scott King

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. ~Virginia Woolf

If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.
~Wilhelm von Humboldt

Some days I am more wolf than woman, and I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.
~Nikita Gill

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I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.
~Steven Wright

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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
~Ellen DeGeneres

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.
~Elayne Boosler

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that’s not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.
~Robert Orben

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.
~Dean Martin

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted a whole day.
~Mickey Rooney (married 8 times)

The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can’t buy a car that hasn’t been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.
~P J O’Rourke

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing in the bread line ‒ right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
~Lenny Bruce

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I’ll tell you one thing… no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I’d do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.
~Adam McKay

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.
~Jerry Seinfeld

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
~Malcolm de Chazal

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The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity ‒ and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

This whole journey of life is to make those 7 minutes before death the best 7 minutes of your life
~Origin

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In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
~Joseph de Maistre

You wait for death your whole life.
~Dan Vasiliu

You can’t live your whole life being scared of the inevitable.
~Ryan Trahan

Death by hanging…well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It’s all right.
~Arthur Seyss-Inquart (Reich governor of Austria)

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The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.
~Herman Melville

When I have supped too heavily of an evening, I drink in the morning a large number of cups of coffee, and that as hot as I can drink it, so that the sweat breaks out on me, and if by so doing I can’t restore my body, a whole apothecary’s shop couldn’t do much, and that is the only thing I have done for years when I have felt a fever.
~Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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I had trouble my whole career maintaining an unnatural weight. When I was middleweight champ of the world, I would go the last week before a fight on just water and lettuce.
~James Toney (WBA)

I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I think, if I remember correctly, it’s 230 calories for a whole bowl. Maybe 270? In the 5th month, I added fruit.
~John Malkovich (actor)

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The little things I used to take for granted before I don’t take for granted anymore. This whole situation has evolved me into a better person. Mentally, I’m much stronger, I’m more loving. I’m a man now. Cancer has played a huge role into making me into this person.
~Daniel Jacobs

In the difficult moments, believe in yourself. Believe that you are whole, perfect, powerful, and blessed.
~Debasish Mridha, MD

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The whole drama of pandemic created is to sell medicine, vaccines, ppe, ventilators etc and profit healthcare people.
~Ground Zero

We’ve said the whole way through –this (Covid-19) is like a public health bushfire. And just like a bushfire, there’s steps we can all take to keep ourselves and our homes safe.
~Daniel Andrews

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I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.
~Bill Gates

A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.
~Craig Venter

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Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.
~James Rippe

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.
~Charles H Mayo (co-founder, the Clinic)

She does not get upset by anything. She takes things very calmly and she has been that way her whole life.
~Irma Capovilla (of María Esther de Capovilla, her mother, Ecuadoran, was world’s oldest at 116 years)

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.
~Denis Diderot

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
~Agatha Christie

If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.
~Linda McCartney

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.
~Albert Schweitzer

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Whenever we look at “successful people,” we imagine we are seeing the whole picture, but it is only the tip of the iceberg that interests us and that we observe.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

Across the globe there are unique individuals that when combined comprise the human race. Even with our acceptance of our uniqueness, we at time envy others. Hopefully that passes and we return to being at peace with how we are. Living in individual “worlds” we continue to progress along our paths while combining to bring about the whole. Know that this is Okay being your chosen self.
~Carl DeHaven

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Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
~bell hooks

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
~E B White

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What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? Every great man is a unique. Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
~Ayn Rand

We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. We copy emotional reactions from our parents, learning from them that excrement is supposed to have a disgusting smell and that vomiting is supposed to be an unpleasant sensation. The dread of death is also learned from their anxieties about sickness and from their attitudes to funerals and corpses. Our social environment has this power just because we do not exist apart from a society. Society is our extended mind and body. Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game with self-contradictory rules.
~Alan Watts

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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
~Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)

Everyone’s like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone’s like, ‘Hey, yeah!’ and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.
~Earl Sweatshirt

When I was wee, in the middle of the summer, the big field behind the shops would be filled with dry grass and I’d get a box of matches. You chuck one match on that and the whole thing goes up in flames. Twitter’s a bit like that. You can just say one thing and it explodes from there.
~Limmy

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.
~Stephen King

There’s a whole vampire community online ‒ those are some crazy people.
~Amy Heckerling

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Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
~Sandra Day O’Connor (USSC, AJ)

I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of cooking. Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility.
~Michael Pollan

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As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I’m sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I’m creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I’m not the only one down here in the muck ‒ our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy.
~Martha Beck (life coach)

I was caught on the freeway for hours when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The entire city had to be evacuated. I observed lives threatened by catastrophes and a whole range of behaviour. What could people do during a crisis?
~Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

People helped me throughout my whole life, so why not help others?
~Francisco Lindor

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Not a whole lot of us are wrestling somebody for a canned food item in the supermarket or having an ax fight in the jungle clearing. Instead, we sit and think about taxes and the ozone layer.
~Robert Sapolsky

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces ‒ in nature, in society, in man himself.
~Leon Trotsky

We’re living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don’t work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.
~Ann Richards (ex-Gov, TX)

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I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
~William Hazlitt

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

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It is through travelling that I got the audacity to write from experience and the confidence to express my thoughts to the world, perhaps to the whole universe.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.
~Martin Jacques

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The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left‒the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.
~King Farouk, of Egypt (reigned 1936-52)

Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.
~Charles Babbage (1791-1871, Eng polymath, ‘father of the computer’)

Only people who live outside cities realize the size of them. London turns out to be huge; there are great swaths, vast panoramas, a whole diaspora I’d never imagined. The place I live in tends to be manageably small, a few familiar journeys and destinations.
~A A Gill

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
~Walt Whitman

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@Writers Platform:

Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole ‒ so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader’s consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
~Willa Cather

‘Think simple’ as my old master used to say ‒ meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A quote is like a whole sermon in and of itself.
~Vince Baker

The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.
~William Gilmore Simms

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There is nothing worse than a long, rambling text from a collaborator who uses a whole page to say what can be written in a few lines.
~Adam Scaife

The best thought is also to better write just a single sensible quote than a whole lot of books or articles devoid of a good impeccable wisdom plot.
~Anuj Somany

The writing I love has something memorable in it ‒ an image, a smell. It’s the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people ‒ that’s writing.
~Atul Gawande

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I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.
~Mark Haddon

In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story ‒ by the people as a whole ‒ and not by the little things.
~Christopher Darden

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I’ve spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.
~Guy Gavriel Kay

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
~John Masefield

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And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you’re going to repeat it; and if you’re burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don’t get it, you’re missing the whole point.
~Michael Berryman

If you read ‘Lord of the Rings’ and dismiss it as a lie because it has orcs and elves, you’re missing the whole point of the story. If children don’t have to be concerned about strangers because there’s no such thing as a Big Bad Wolf dressed like Granny, you’re missing the point.
~Doug TenNapel

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
~D H Lawrence

I had an American journalist say to me, “Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?” I was tempted to say, “On teabags, I used to save them.”
~J K Rowling

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Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the poem is to enable us to remember some information.
~James Fenton

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.
~Ken MacLeod

It’s no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
~Don DeLillo

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes ‒ the whole bag of tricks.
~P J O’Rourke

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Since words are like the color of a painting, how you organize and use them will have an effect on the discussion as a whole, choosing your words carefully is a talent that may dramatically improve your capacity to frame any discussion
~Josh King Madrid

Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.
~Rosa Luxemburg (social revolutionary)

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?
~Dejan Stojanovic

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Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
~Julie Burchill

I’ve read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of ‘You Can’t Go Home Again‘ and ‘Look Homeward, Angel.’
~Maya Angelou

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Journalists who swallow the subject’s account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.
~Janet Malcolm

There are people who concoct a whole sensitive story to show the emotional connect with a social cause, but the fact would be to either gain publicity or promote a brand/product through it only.
~Anuj Somany

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I don’t believe newspaper reporters can substitute for a district attorney, but a newspaper has a very valid investigative role. Newspaper reports on corruption in government, racketeering and organized crime conditions can be very helpful to your communities and the whole country.
~Robert Kennedy

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.
~Tina Brown (editor: Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Daily Beast)

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.
~Neil Postman

The first view of the Earth is magical. It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me. I could not get over the notion that in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred.
~Kalpana Chawla

But look at how soon we’re all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of all those applauding hands. The people who praise us ‒ how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region in which it all takes place. The whole earth a point in space ‒ and most of it uninhabited.
~Marcus Aurelius (Emperor/Stoic)

There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history.
~Wilma Mankiller

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On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.
~Mercy Otis Warren

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
~Robert Frost

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Whole generations have forgotten history.
~Pierre Salinger

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it’s a joke, a blot on American history.
~Frank Waters

We may pretend that we’re basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
~Terry Hands

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
~Walter Bagehot

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History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time ‒ and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
~Hunter S Thompson (of the ’60s hippies counter-culture)

I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it is an exploration into the unknown ‒ ‘a journey without maps,’ to borrow Graham Greene’s phrase.
~Michael Korda

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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
~Golda Meir

Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
~Malala Yousafzai

He had a, ‘presence,’ that was second to none, so full of quiet and assured self-possession and dignity. But it never inspired fear. The deepest sentiment that it invoked was awe, not fear. I think the reason for this was his eyes. Yes, I am sure that it was his eyes, so wonderful were they. Of the most delicate, shade of blue, they looked you straight in the face with the kindest, tenderest, most loving expression…His eyes were so clear that it seemed as if he opened the whole of his soul to your gaze, a soul that was so simple and pure that it did not fear your scrutiny…That was his great charm and this was politically his great weakness.
~Charles Sydney Gibbes (of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia)

My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
~Fetty Wap (rapper)

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I was told my whole life, you’re fat, you’re ugly, you’re never going to amount to be anything.
~Tonya Harding (ice skating Silver x 2)

It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn’t fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it’s been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.
~Ellen Barkin

It destroys the soul to hear that you’re all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived… When the whole point of Queen was to be original.
~Freddie Mercury

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.
~Maya Angelou

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Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
~Steve Earle

It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
~Adam McKay

I was with much nicer people in the Navy. On Tiga, you had a lesbian, a hippie, a homosexual and this neurologist who shaved his whole body every third day.
~Rudy Boesch (of Survivor: Borneo)

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When I was around 18, I got kicked out of my parents’ house, and I wasn’t allowed to take anything with me. I slept on YMCA towels for a whole semester in university before my father found out and bought me a mattress. I felt really free because I was finally living on my own, but I was also really depressed because I had nothing.
~Antoni Porowski (of Queer Eye)

The Army was good for me. I can’t honestly say that it taught me any morals or sense of responsibility. I had been raised with those qualities. What it taught me was that there was a whole world of sex I had yet to discover.
~John Holmes (porn star)

The greatest personalities have always been those who can identify opportunities and apply their great abilities for the common good of the whole nation.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

I never developed hard cartilage in my ears because I played with them since I was a baby. I can fold my ear entirely inside out, and I can put the whole thing inside itself.
~Evangeline Lilly

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My whole story is just about me having a second chance.
~Two Chainz

Even if I’m able to pull myself out of this handicap prison, this handicap Hell that I’ve been trapped in my whole life, I will be left with both scars for what I have lost and growth for what I have learned. If I’m unsuccessful in my attempts to leave my handicap prison, my handicap Hell than I guess the only thing I can do is be strong and learn to accept my circumstance.
~Ryan Pack

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
~Willie Nelson

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You can’t let nobody step on your ego, dismantle your whole image for no reason.
~Jadakiss (rapper)

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.
~David Goggins (athlete, motivational speaker)

The study of the self. This is the foundational practice of Buddhism. Basically it’s the whole point. So what is the point… What is this really about? To study the self addresses everything we encounter in life. We can’t encounter anything but the self actually. … And ultimately How do I live a life of meaning and energy?
~Shoryu Bradley

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At the end of the day, what are genres? I’ve spent my whole life trying to fit into some sort of box. Am I a classical musician, a jazz musician? Am I Icelandic? Am I Chinese? Am I American? I’ve never been able to fit into a box. So I’m trying to distance myself from that. I think that’s quite old-fashioned.
~Laufey

A ‘naughty pickle’ is how I’d best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.
~Celia Imrie (impish actress)

My whole life has been one big improvisation.
~Clint Eastwood

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
~Marilyn Monroe

I don’t have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.
~Whoopi Goldberg

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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
~Wayne Dyer

We are the source of infinite love, infinite joy, and infinite happiness, but we spend our whole life looking for love, joy and happiness. How foolish is this?
~Debasish Mridha, MD

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My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.
~Marilyn Monroe

I feel like I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be, which is both settling and terrifying. The roller coaster is going, and there is no jumping off at this point unless I just go nuclear. It’s a really interesting part of the whole journey.
~Jay Ellis (actor)

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My whole life, I’ve wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.
~David Duchovny

I’m a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that’s not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.
~Alicia Keys

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I’d like to keep a bit of my life my own, so I’m not publicizing my whole life on social media and stuff.
~Bella Ramsey

I’ve spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don’t see why I should start now.
~Sally Ride

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At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn’t as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting.
~Marilyn Monroe

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This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.
~Sean Combs

When it seems like the whole world thinks you’re bad, it’s hard to hang on to your goodness.
~Anthony Ray Hinton

I’ve never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking.
~Sean Combs

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I advocate for other people before I advocate for myself. Even just making dinner reservations, I count the whole party and I forget myself.
~Lily Gladstone

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
~Taylor Swift

Personally, I would say the ‘master’ of this whole thing is fate… Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it’s up to them to avoid being used.
~Cliff Burton (bassist, of Metallica)

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If the whole world is suffering inside you, you are a flood of times.
~Haimer abdou

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.
~Henry Miller (a definition not incompatible with prison ~Ed Note)

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I attempted to read and memorise the whole dictionary, because I know that my destiny is to guide a large number of people.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life; don’t make it wait any longer.
~Steve Maraboli

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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
~Dwight D Eisenhower

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
~James Madison

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We manifest what we believe, even if those beliefs trip us up and create roadblocks to personal growth. As the old adage by Henry Ford goes: Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. The goal is not to be “right” but to be whole and self-actualized.
~Lisa Haisha

You (personally) may find it difficult to change the world as a whole. But, you can effortlessly change the world of one person.
~Emeasoba George

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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An Occasional Corner: The pResident sPeaks

You don’t want some honest president being conned by a dishonest world, do you? And that’s the whole world out there, and I can con the best, mud-rassle the worst of them. …beat ’em, make ’em piss their pants! ꘘሇ⸿⛕ ’em anyway! I decide what’s history. I decide!
~D T Rump

They gotta get mad, really mad… so they take to the streets, protest. Enough of ’em mad enough, and somebody somewhere is gonna do something useful… is gonna “riot”, if you know what I mean. Terrorists! Then we got ’em. Martial law. We got people in place, and the votes. constitution or not, it’s their skin too. It’s so… it’s so beautiful. We can’t lose!
~D T Rump

The title is Dapper Don, Icon! Who back there said diaper? Who, all of a sudden, just lost her citizenship?
~T Rumpledthinskin

Like I said, I’m a very good man, with the best of my intentions, but nobody’s better at getting uglier, nobody worse. You don’t want to see me at my worst.
~D T Rump

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I ask everyone in Russia to pray for me, beginning with the bishops, whose whole life is a single prayer. I ask prayers also of those who humbly do not believe in the efficacy of their prayers, as well as of those who do not believe in prayer at all and even consider it useless.
~Nikolai Gogol (in declining health, fear of divine judgment ~AI)

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
~Christopher Columbus

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For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.
~Martin Buber

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
~George A Smith

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God listens to your heartbeats your whole life, from the very first to the very last. Which moves him the most? Who could say.
~Heather Lydia Thornhill

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Your whole life and philosophical thinking are evolved on the characteristics of one individual, the religious founder.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
~Deepak Chopra

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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.
~David Brainerd

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
~Saint Francis de Sales

Every prayer must be accompanied with action, otherwise, you will be basing your whole life upon expectations.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

Just as, when we touch a live wire, the electric force infuses itself into our body, when we deeply meditate on God the power of the whole universe seeks entry into our personality.
~Swami Krishnananda

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First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
~Martin Luther

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
~Aiden Wilson Tozer

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
~Charles Darwin

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We look through the sights, squeeze the trigger and the toy soldiers go flying, dying hard but smiling in the process. The toy maker should be laughing the whole way to the bank but Nietzsche said he [God] was dead too.
~Scott C Holstad

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
~Voltaire (French wars of religion)

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My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.
~Christopher Hitchens

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
~Thomas Paine

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
~Isaac Asimov

I find the whole idea of religion overwhelming and frightening and not for me.
~Cody Fern (Aussie Dir/Actor)

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
~Douglas Adams

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
~Richard Dawkins (atheist)

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
~Henry Norris Russell

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We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian ‒ I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.
~Ray Bradbury (The Martian Chronicles)

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.
~Marguerite de Valois

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Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
~Sally Ride (astronaut)

Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man’s world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth.
~Richard Milhous Nixon

I think in the sciences there is still the general belief that America is still tops. For America to lose that, I think, would be very bad, not just speaking as a scientist myself. I think it would be very bad for the morale of the whole country.
~Chen-Ning Yang

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The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.
~Richard P Feynman

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
~Arthur Compton (physicist)

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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
~Carl Friedrich Gauss

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.
~Paul Dirac (co-founder quantum mechanics, pre-AI)

Most of the time I’ve worked in labs if I didn’t encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I’d consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.
~Lewis Thomas

Chance leads to discoveries, and mutagenesis is a way to enhance one’s chances of finding a surprise. Often it is the exceptional observations that lead to advances; once you understand exceptions, you understand the whole picture.
~Bruce Beutler

A body of work such as Pasteur’s is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
~Jean Rostand

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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.
~Nancy Banks-Smith

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
~Albert Einstein

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When I was dead I found myself covered in ashes Then I lifted myself up and something golden shone through The light shattered the scars and something like life returned Then there was I Once again part of the all The blinding glory of the one had been given to me insurmountable And I was whole and good
~Dr Stephen E Schiboni (studied neural implants)

Technology could benefit or hurt people, so the usage of tech is the responsibility of humanity as a whole, not just the discoverer. I am a person before I’m an AI technologist.
~Fei-Fei Li

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples’ ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn’t do.
~Linus Torvalds

In the end, the whole Internet thing kills me, because you can use it as a positive thing or you can read into all the negativity. And I think you’ve gotta put out positive energy, put out cool viral stuff, and then just stay out of people’s opinions.
~Nikki Sixx

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Our strategy is very horizontal. We’re trying to build a social layer for everything. Basically, we’re trying to make it so that every app everywhere can be social, whether it’s on the web or mobile or other devices. So inherently, our whole approach has to be a breadth-first approach rather than a depth-first one.
~Mark Zuckerberg

‘Free’ is the museum show of our times, presaging the whole Wikileaks dustup*, and it shows shifting power dynamics and a glimpse of the human in a world of flowing data.
~Caterina Fake

*Hundreds of thousands of classified Afghan/Iraq wars logs released

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This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
~Bill Gates

I was in love with HTML and certain that the whole world was about to learn it, ushering in a new era of DIY media, free expression, peace and democracy and human rights worldwide. That part didn’t work out so well, although the kids prefer YouTube to TV, so that’s something.
~Jeffrey Zeldman

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C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
~Bjarne Stroustrup

Too many engineers are wrapped up in what they call technology and the gadgets, the hardware, and they forget that the whole purpose of technology is to make peoples’ lives better. People forget that, and I have to keep reminding them. We are trying to improve the human experience. That’s what technology is all about.
~Martin Cooper

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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
~Saint Francis de Sales

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
~William Shakespeare

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I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that’s habitat destruction.
~Steve Irwin

Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
~Sylvia Earle

Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.
~Brian Skerry

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for ‒ the whole thing ‒ rather than just one or two stars.
~David Attenborough

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Nature, whose sweet rains fall on just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
~Oscar Wilde

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.
~Christopher Alexander (architect)

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The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
~Henryk Sienkiewicz

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
~Joseph Wood Krutch

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.
~Andrew Wyeth

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
~Joseph Wood Krutch

The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.
~Diane Ackerman

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
~Iris Murdoch

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things, but there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
~James Carroll

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Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
~Joseph Auslander

The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth.
~Jay Parini

At a time when oral traditions were memorized, adhered to, open to debate, considered reliable, the gospels were likely written:
Matthew: 40-55 AD
Mark: 55-60 AD
Luke: 58-62 AD
John: 85-90 AD
~gotquestions.org

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays‒let them overtake me unexpectedly‒waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day
~David Grayson

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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
~Thomas Carlyle

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That’s what makes me feel whole.
~Hugh Hefner

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
~Eckhart Tolle

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Intellectuals understand life through analysis (breaking it down to small parts), whereas intelligent ones understand through synthesis (putting the parts together). Meaning always arises out of a whole, whereas through parts, one’s understanding gets fragmented, confused.
~Mickey Mehta

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
~C S Lewis

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
~Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
~Paracelsus (Swiss phys/alchemist, 1493-1541)

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
~Lao Tzu

The less one knows, the more there is to learn, the happy coincidence of a whole big world and its invitation to those curious for it.
~Harry Tick

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?
~Quentin Crisp

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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The soul of the world is in the whole world, and is everywhere so adapted to matter that, at each place, it produces the proper subject and causes the proper actions.
~Giordano Bruno (heretic, burned alive, Rome, Feb 17, 1600)

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.
~Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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Some day we feel the overall picture has slipped away. Only the details of life may help to find the whole ensemble. Our worldview does not comprehend the daily events anymore. Our conception of life is no longer a key for understanding, but is, on the contrary, blocking off our insight.
~Erik Pevernagie (Man without Qualities)

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
~Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that syren… For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
~Patrick Henry

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Collective Consciousness. We have collectively created this reality. Old beliefs produce old results. We can collectively solve any problem, rewrite any program, create any reality. We do this by doing our individual parts and then collectively we complete the whole of humanity. This reality is collective consciousness. When we are collectively of one mind and conscious of what we are creating, then an unlimited new world opens up to us.
~Author/s Unknown (collectively)

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
~Ayn Rand

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The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.
~Immanuel Kant (sought to discover rational basis for all legal codes)

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely‒ the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears‒ when you give your whole attention to it… So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
~Walter Lippmann

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
~William James

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§ The Exercise:

confessions of a word-monger

i’m no poet of a certainty
do not rise to the low estate
self-indulgence of a poetaster
perhaps a doggerelist
above his back-end pile of words
or the donut whole of nothing
the step below that

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poverty

one can grin and bear it
or smile and bare it all
pride hidin’ in the bottom bin
tall stride become a crawl
emptiness self-installed

refuse excuse tho practically shown
the whole ain’t but the half of it
if all of it were known
regrets delivered with hilarity
truth with severity, antics of a clown

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5s ‘n 7s

for the sake of forsaking
forgetting harsh memories
refusing to be denied
fraught decision they deride
architectures of a ghost
abrupt as a sudden wall
fought as battles on the whole

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the whole truth, or most of it
their whole bit but part of it
lo, behold, the rest of it
known: our way’s the best of it
others in their quest for it
followings attest to it
afterlife the test of it

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feel the full weight, all of it
pull the piled cart filled with it
draw out your sword, fight for it
unleash your pen, write of it
target love, the whole of it

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love: the void that others fill
begs for more plus urge to kill
whole-love medicine, one pill
what hurts a lot, starts a thrill
worth a lot makes hard to build

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hungry, as a hole is whole
full empty unto itself
new love wants a need-filling,
expectations due, expire
as holiday rules require

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STOP! be advised: don’t do it!
that’s the whole lot worst of it
whatever you were thinking
dire warning, gist of it… um
…don’t recall the rest of it

YES! absolutely!
loom of life, your creation
spun to the edge, whole

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amply clumsy with the truth
not lies, manifestations
alternate realities
whole cloth reimaginings
hist’ry’s different ending
high tech in lieu of conscience
sacred newest laws enforced

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people and their newest toys
cellphone claptrap background noise
mystery lost ‘tween girls <‒> boys
whole in One, each embracing
silence works, no erasing

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not a great deal, a real deal
not a whole meal, but oatmeal
one bowl, lettuce on the side
hungry then, no point in pride
silent prayer spreads warm inside

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now, on knowing where and when
i will be there, see you then
how trite the rhyme, prompt of time
love whole and true, sweet, sublime
stolen moments not a crime

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love, as pairs in disrepair
tall socks, large hole in one heel
faithless dryer, mate taken
one bright short sock, all alone
two plus one patch makeshift whole

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carnival, those yonder clouds
local yokels on the whole
sky guys dance to guide the world
play at chaos under shroud
blue sky foe, the game allowed

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pretensions without purpose
filtered meanings lost to fear
call it a certain kindness
admitting to death at last
close the fated circle whole

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livid lies told vividly
under oath, criminally
whole realms of law compromised
rightly whitely less than wise
light on sin tax, syntax cries

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good show to be in
best as a stand-in
even a has-been
burned toast, no muffin
acting as bluffin’
played by exudin’
whole lotta nuthin’

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get from here to there
walk or wings the choice
talk, the work on air
makes the work your voice
wed and weld the whole

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ask, do the skies lie
as if it were possible
whole unto itself

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time, the frenemy
whole point of going forward
not having the choice

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The Olio’s Quote Harvest
https://brainyquote.com, https://dailypnut.com, https://goodreads.com,
https://quotesnet.net

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Fun Tarts: https://gocomics.com

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The Salmagundi’s Video Harvest
https://venmo.com, https://vevo.com, https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com

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Google AI, extensively

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