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“One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students - they work with all students.”

Community Special Students College Picks Community College

Author:Jill Biden

“One of the things that make motorcycling so great is because it never fails to give you a feeling of freedom and adventure.”

Giving Feelings Failing Adventure

Author:Steve McQueen

“One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.”

Fall Leafs Limbs Bud

Author:Jan Karon

Source: The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.

“One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.”

Facts Suffering Justice White Diversity Standing Social Justice Injustice Folks Rebuke

Author:H. L. Mencken

Source: Minority Report

“One of the things that makes a social-media cleanse so difficult is that every time we log on, every notification we get is an addictive substance. It's just like any drug.”

Social Difficult Media Drug Social Media Substance Notifications

Author:Kim Stolz

“One of the things that makes adhering to probabilities so difficult (and profitable) for an investor is that emotion has a pronounced impact on how we assess probability. Predictably, positive emotion leads us to overstate the likelihood of positive occurrences and negative emotion does just the opposite. This coloring of probability leads us to misapprehend risk… All too often we confuse the intensity of our longing with the probability of our winning.”

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Author:Daniel Crosby

Source: The Behavioral Investor: How psychology shapes wealth, risk, and investment decisions

“One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.”

Feels Play Film Certain Comedy Television Amount Drama Entertainment Spontaneity

Author:Glenn Howerton

“One of the things that makes characters real is details. Life offers a lot of details. You just have to choose and use them wisely. When you give them to fictional people and a fictional story, their purpose and their meaning changes, so it's best to see the version in the book as fiction entirely, wherever it started out.”

People Giving Book Real Character Stories Use Purpose Fiction Offers Details Versions Fictional Stories

Author:Nick Earls

“One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.”

People Different Available

Author:David Wolpe

“One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.”

Character Faces Personality Elements Unique

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“One of the things that makes it so challenging is that we're constructing the Station hundreds of miles above the surface of the Earth and we're doing it one piece at a time For the International Space Station we do not have the privilege of assuming the Space Station is on the ground before we take it up one piece at a time. So we have to be very clever about the testing that we do and the training that we do to make sure that each mission is successful, and that each piece and each mission goes just as it's planned.”

Earth Challenges Space Successful Pieces Training Assuming International Privilege Missions Surface Miles Clever Stations Testing One Piece Very Clever International Space Station

Author:Tamara E. Jernigan

“One of the things that makes me a conservative, or a libertarian, or whatever the heck it is that I am - a person who doesn't much like big government - is that I do not like the concentration of the power.”

Persons Bigs Government Conservative Libertarian Concentration Big Government

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“One of the things that makes me happiest and proudest is that the talk radio venue, the whole market has expanded. There are all kinds of people doing it now.”

People Kind Whole Radio All Kinds Venues Talk Radio

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“One of the things that makes me the most nervous is that the Middle East has historically had a sense of predictability. You may have a terrorist incident or you may have a revisionist regime like the Iranians, but on the whole, the region is twenty countries. On the whole, you go to bed and you wake up and you have a pretty good idea that most of those twenty are doing just fine, you don't have to pay attention to them. There's some stuff going on but you don't have to worry about a governmental overthrow that will suddenly force you to evacuate your embassies.”

Country Attention Worry Wake Up Terrorist Nervous Pay Attention Predictability

Author:Ilan Berman

“One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.”

People Heart My Heart Loyalty Who I Am Fidelity Perfect Chemistry Close To My Heart

Author:Simone Elkeles

Source: Perfect Chemistry

“One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.”

World Needs Should Helping Certain Military Soldier Abandoned Marine Sailor Comrade Need Help Marine Life Airmen Certain Knowledge

Author:Jon Kyl

“One of the things that makes the uncertainty of death so difficult for us is that we could be involved in a project and then, suddenly, it's cut off. And it's cut off in the midst of our involvement, so that we don't have a chance to see it through, to accomplish what we might accomplish.”

Might Difficult Chance Cutting Involved Projects Accomplish Uncertainty Midst Involvement

Author:Todd May

“One of the things that makes this show unique, in terms of an experience, is that when you do a show that has a large cast, scheduling is a very difficult thing.”

Shows Difficult Term Unique Casts Difficult Things Scheduling

Author:Jeph Loeb

“One of the things that makes this so topical right now is that I think there are an awful lot of American men - and women, but I'm a man, so that's what I can talk about - who feel the American dream has let them down.”

Thinking Men Feels I Can Dream Right Now Men And Women Awful American Dream

Author:James Purefoy

“One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.”

Real Artist Horrible Conclusion Real Artists Solipsism

Author:David Foster Wallace

“One of the things that may get in the way of people ... is that they're not in touch with their passion. If you're passionate about what it is you do, then you're going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.”

People Ifs Way Inspirational May Passion Business Passionate Get Better Passion For What You Do

Author:Jack Canfield

“One of the things that most people aren't aware of when they think of the Civil War is the number of people and associated animals. (Armies) weren't mechanized. They had to rely on horses and mules.”

People Thinking War Animal Numbers Horse Army Rely Civil War Mules

Author:Gary Miller

“One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.”

People Should Motivational Care Sports Parent Taught Expectations Golf Motivational Sports Golfers Golfing Motivational Golf Live Your Own Life

Author:Tiger Woods

“One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who are basically disposable labor. You can use them. You can get rid of them. They have no rights; they have no security. Their lives and well-being are made and unmade at the whim of those who are exercising the calculus. So, instead of looking at the institution and objecting to that kind of organization, people just go, "I'm a failure;"; "I'm not working hard enough"; or, "I'm not as smart as the next person."”

People Wells Kind Persons Doe Made Hard Enough Use Next Rights Security Exercise Smart Labor Organization Institutions Well Being Rely Flexible Whim Workforce Calculus Disposable Neoliberalism

Author:Judith Butler

“One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.”

People Book Facts Novel Century

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.”

People Knows Way Bigs Lost Deals Doors Fronts Figures Messages Ridiculous Manage Discussion Lunch Showers Big Deal Front Doors

Author:Andrew Solomon

“One of the things that people aren't aware of is how much progress is being made in eradicating poverty and providing a healthier life and longevity for people around the world.”

People World Made Poverty Progress Around The World Providing Longevity Healthier Life

Author:Kathy Calvin

“One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.”

People Ifs Feelings Life Is Economic Loneliness Bases Connected Complaining Threatened Disconnectedness

Author:Steven Pinker

“One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.”

People Enough Library End Times Spend Time Psychedelic

Author:Terence McKenna

“One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.”

People Wells States Realizing Natural Beauty Economic Development Impact Forests Economic Development

Author:Ed Rendell

“One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the sake of others. The Dalai Lama has been in exile for so many years, yet the Chinese are running scared of him.”

People Years Has Beens Self Running Sake Scared Chinese Exile Lama Dalai Glorification Self Glorification Running Scared

Author:Desmond Tutu

“One of the things that perhaps we can learn through the political process about bringing people together is to remember South Carolina, remember the families of the nine victims, how they brought a community together during the worst atrocity in our state's history, i am thankful that I live in a country where forgiveness can be seen in the worst of conditions.”

People Country States Together Remember Political Process Community Worst Conditions Forgiveness Victim South Nine Atrocities Carolina South Carolina I Am Thankful

Author:Tim Scott

“One of the things that personally kept me in music was that it has always been my passion,my vision and change. No matter how far I may think I can go without it, it always tend to slap me right back in the face! So why not do what naturally fills your soul. Music completes me.”

Thinking May I Can Soul Matter Faces Passion Vision Your Soul Why Not My Passion Slap Music Soul

Author:Mandisa

“One of the things that puzzles me is that so few people want to look at life as a totality and to recognize that death is no more extraordinary than birth. When they say it's the end of everything they don't seem to recognize that we came from somewhere and it would be very, very strange indeed to suppose that we're not going somewhere.”

People Want Looks Ends Seems Would Be Strange Birth Extraordinary Puzzles Totality

Author:Robertson Davies

Source: Conversations with Robertson Davies

“One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.”

Kind Ideas America Majority Versions Bother Cliche

Author:Robert K. Massie

“One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.”

Thinking Way Kids Crazy Dangerous College Particular Educated Ideology

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“One of the things that really fascinates me about movies is that they make seemingly ordinary moments be filled with some curiosity or some energy or some mystery.”

Moments Energy Mystery Curiosity

Author:Joachim Trier

“One of the things that really gets me excited and makes me start up companies is the fact that you can basically build something new, try to introduce a change in a way that people are used to doing certain activities, and basically create something out of scratch that doesn't exist and would revolutionize whatever it is that you are trying to do with it. So that's part of the reason I love being able to be a technologist.”

People Way Trying Reason Facts Able Used Certain Love Is Company Activity Excited Something New Introducing Scratches

Author:Anousheh Ansari

“One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot”

Men Wells Parent Water Talking Members Shots Village Burned Family Members Burned Out

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“One of the things that really has gone wrong in modern politics, one of the things that made Trump possible was that many people have a view of politics as something dramatic and exciting and thrilling and emotional.”

People Made Views Gone Modern Emotional Trump Exciting Dramatic Thrilling Modern Politics

Author:David Frum

“One of the things that really impressed me about Anna Karenina when I first read it was how Tolstoy sets you up to expect certain things to happen - and they don't. Everything is set up for you to think Anna is going to die in childbirth. She dreams it's going to happen, the doctor, Vronsky and Karenin think it's going to happen, and it's what should happen to an adulteress by the rules of a nineteenth-century novel. But then it doesn't happen. It's so fascinating to be left in that space, in a kind of free fall, where you have no idea what's going to happen.”

Thinking Should Firsts Kind Ideas Dream Happens Certain Dies Fall Left Space Novel Century Doctors No Idea Fascinating Impressed Nineteenth Century Childbirth Anna

Author:Elif Batuman

“One of the things that really intrigued us the most about the whole Wonder Woman mythology is the actual mythology of it. Her character has distinct roots in classic Greek mythology.”

Whole Character Facts Wonder Roots Mythology Greek Classic Greek Mythology Intrigued Wonder Woman Greek Myth

Author:Bruce Timm

“One of the things that really worries me, in part about Mexico, in part about Latin America, and in part about the Hispanic population in the U.S. and Canada. It's the lack of awareness of this whole science world.”

World Whole America Worry Awareness Population Canada Latin Mexico Latin America Hispanic

Author:Juan Enriquez

“One of the things that Rorion used to say was, "You don't need Jiu-Jitsu if your opponents are small.”

Rorion Gracie Gracie Jiu Jitsu

Author:Richard Bresler

Source: Worth Defending: How Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Saved My Life

“One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility'.”

Artist Streets Music Is Sells Come Up Urban Credibility Ghetto

Author:Geoffrey Canada

“One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.”

People Thinking Character Care Awareness Genre Dozen Dimes

Author:Ethan Hawke

“One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.”

Winning Sports Loses Independent Climbing Personal Experiences Win Or Lose

Author:Chris Sharma

“One of the things that sets Oliver Stone apart though is he is commercial. He is mainstream. He makes big movies and he is one of the last guys that can make big movies that actually have something to say, that you know challenge the audience in a way while entertaining them.”

Guy Challenges Audience Big Movie

Author:John Buffalo Mailer

“One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious writing contains certain scientific errors. For example, Muhammad taught in the Qur'an that the sun descends down into a muddy spring. The Hindu Vedas state that the Earth is flat and triangular, that earthquakes are caused by elephants shaking themselves under it. You'll never read absurd statements like those in the Bible.”

Writing States Earth Certain Religious Sun Example Taught Spring Bible Errors Ancient Statements Absurd Exception Flats Elephants Shaking Muhammad Earthquakes Accuracy Muddy Vedas

Author:Charlie Campbell

“One of the things that sparked my interest in this is the case of Emmanuel Constant, who started a militia called FRAPH that was backed by the CIA. FRAPH killed thousands of Haitians in the early 1990s. Now while Constant is living comfortably in Queens, other Haitians are being deported. I wanted to see how those who have been bruised by people like that deal with coming face to face with their torturers.”

People Has Beens Wanted Faces Interest Deals Cases Constant Queens Cia Face To Face Militia Bruised Emmanuel Living Comfortably

Author:Edwidge Danticat