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		[I think there are a lot of Americans who are very scared ] that Donald Trump and his campaign, or his future administration, is just in denial. They just want to say, no, no, no, [Vladimir] Putin couldn't possibly have done this.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				E. J. Dionne
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think the natural is, for many people, the gateway to something supernatural or otherworldly.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Quentin S. Crisp
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gwen Stefani
			
			
				No Doubt
			
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		And so you [young Americans]need to be the Idea Generation. The generation who's always thinking on the cutting edge, who's wondering how to create and keep the next wave of American jobs and American innovations, who's figuring out how to out-compete the Idea Generations of Indias and Chinas of the world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Christine Gregoire
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Albert J. Nock
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It's really more about the moment than it is the award. You know how trophies are, you don't really think about them after a while. It's more about the moment of being encouraged to keep doing what you're doing that keeps you going.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mark Hall
			
			
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		Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Keith Stanfield
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize themselves into enormous groups that function in unison.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bonnie Bassler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Attenborough
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was freaking out when Brooks & Dunn were breaking up. I thought 'We play a ton of rodeos, and I thought this was such a cowboy deal, and I don't wear a hat. They might not think I'm a cowboy. That might sound ridiculous to a lot of people, but apparently, it meant something to me. I wound up with a cowboy tattoo from my elbow to my wrist.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ronnie Dunn
			
			
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		Actors can be very precious about their work and their scenes, but I think good actors have a strong understanding of narrative and are very often not as precious about that stuff. They just can't be because they understand what makes for a better film, and that it's the job of the actor to work toward that, and then if you want you can go to acting class or workshops. But making movies is not workshops.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kristen Stewart
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		I've always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Viola Davis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Banking, as far as I can tell, seems to be almost as precise a science as using a slot machine. You either blindly hope for the best, delude yourself into thinking you've worked out a system, or open it up when no one's looking and rig the settings so it'll pay out illegally.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charlie Brooker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eckhart Tolle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don’t usually think about things that are filthy, or unpleasant. I think about the good things, because I know they exist. And I want to believe in those good things.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kamijo Yuuji