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“The thing that is most important is to feel like you're at the front of the line, to be prime or primer. I definitely never wanted to say that in the films, but that's where it comes from.”

Feels Important Wanted Film Lines Fronts Like You Prime

Author:Shane Carruth

“The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.”

Believe Government Interesting Servant Sincerity Bureaucracy Most Interesting

Author:Gertrude Stein

Source: Wars I have seen

“The thing that is most interesting about people is the way they are when no one is looking at them or the way they are when they are in private.”

People Way Interesting Privacy Most Interesting

Author:Suzanne Vega

Source: The passionate eye: the collected writing of Suzanne Vega

“The thing that is my main focus is my family. More than anything, I want to be a good husband to my wife and a good father to my kids.”

Want Kids Father Focus Wife Husband My Family My Wife Good Father Good Husband

Author:Rex Hudler

“The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.”

Important Able Brain Figures

Author:Benjamin Carson

“The thing that is really hard about adaptation is that I try to only pick things I love because if it is something where you think, "Oh, that sounds like an interesting idea but I don't love it," then I can't do my job well.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Wells I Can Ideas Hard Jobs Sound Love Is Interesting Picks Adaptation Things I Love Interesting Ideas

Author:Andy Weir

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

Source: Being Perfect

“The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work.”

Men Would Be Powerful Principles Demand Mystical Whim Mystical Experiences

Author:Terence McKenna

“The thing that is uncomfortable is when people kind of stare for a long time and point. That gets weird. Id much prefer someone to come up to me and say something.”

People Kind Long Long Time Come Up Staring Uncomfortable

Author:Brandon Jay McLaren

“The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.”

Business Competition Excellence Execution

Author:Tom Peters

“The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction...the possibility that a terrorist organization could either acquire a ready-made weapon or fabricate something improvised that would have a catastrophic effect for us.”

Made Night Effects Possibility Ready Weapons Destruction Organization Terrorism Terrorist Awake Acquire Massive Awake At Night Fabricate Nexus

Author:Michele Flournoy

“The thing that keeps me going is that I love what I am doing. And I stay young because I don't hang around old people, if you hang around old people you are going to become old!”

People Ifs Young Old People

Author:Bob Proctor

“The thing that keeps me interested is that I love stories. I love going to movies and I love watching stuff that sparks ideas in my brain.”

Ideas Stories Stuff Brain Love Story Sparks

Author:Jon M. Chu

“The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.”

Desire Curiosity Awake

Author:Juan Enriquez

“The thing that keeps the thoughts coming back is the power that you put in the thought that you can't think of it.”

Thinking Coming Back

Author:Maria Bamford

“The thing that keeps you grounded is doing the thing you love.”

Grounded Things You Love

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor.”

Views Rocks Balance Photography Commitment Labor Investment Absurd Enjoyment Snakes

Author:Robert Adams

“The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'”

Use Walks Huge Band Rivers Deceit Swimming Apathy Kill Me Pals Vortex

Author:Devin Townsend

“The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.”

Giving Levels Giving Up Founders

Author:Sam Altman

“The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.”

Way Humans Lying Change Human Beings Positive Inspire Fellows Foundation Helping Others Uplifting Volunteer Positive Change Positive Vibes

Author:Lee Iacocca

“The thing that made me turn more towards writing was realizing how hard it was going to be to get a singular vision on film and how much more control I would have if I were writing novels.”

Writing Film Realizing Vision Novel

Author:Dan Chaon

“The thing that maintains my confidence in my fellowman is realizing that the choices that they make might be a reflection of who they, but they are not a reflection of who they could be.”

Humanity Mankind Confidence Opportunities Potential Possibilities Maturation Fellowman

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.”

Way Different Shows Jobs Dirty Highlights Drudgery Dirty Jobs

Author:Mike Rowe

“The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.”

Running Willing Losing Europe Bob Inspirational Running Hammered

Author:Frank Shorter

“The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.”

Persons Art Creative Theatre Be Creative Creative Person

Author:Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.”

Horror Messages Entertainment Genre Sci Fi Subversive

Author:Ethan Hawke

“The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.”

Want Feels Kind Country Facts Nuclear Pursue Threatened Deterrent

Author:Stephen Walt

“The thing that makes human life a misery is love, because love plus loss equals pain, and loss is inevitable.”

Love Life Loss

Author:K.J. Parker

Source: Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead

“The thing that makes makeup or clothing or fashion beautiful is the fact that the person wearing them loves themselves and loves being able to kind of use them as artistic tools. And so if I was to give one piece of advice, it would be to find beauty in your core first before you go out into the world and find it in other ways.”

World Giving Kind Beautiful Love Is Advice Fashion Artistic Makeup One Piece

Author:Amandla Stenberg

“The thing that makes me break down in tears the most often is not grief, but human resilience. To watch someone dress their kids and get them to school, ship them off with backpacks and N95 masks knowing how hard the world is. To watch someone keep going with some sort of unfathomable fortitude, no matter how rough the human waters, that is what astounds me. And still we go on, the world seems to say.”

Bravery Illness Resilience Covid 19 Fortitude Covid Carrying On N95 Masks

Author:Ada Limon

“The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of.”

Feels Knowing Alive

Author:India.Arie

“The thing that makes me feel most alive would be when I'm hanging out with my family and feeling my connection with them and feeling safe and content in that.”

Feels Feelings Would Be Alive Safe My Family Connections Hanging Out

Author:Matt Nathanson

“The thing that makes me feel powerful is when I make a decision about something and I make it happen.”

Feels Happens Decision Powerful Make It Happen

Author:Estelle

“The thing that makes me feel young, honestly, is making television. It's the only thing that excites me, the way that you get excited when you're a kid. That's why I still do it.”

Way Feels Stills Kids Young Television Excited Honestly

Author:Kevin D. Williamson

“The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.”

Hard Shows Wish Hard Work Reader Drawing Print Imaginative

Author:Matt Groening

“The thing that makes me happy is that I know that on Mars, two hundred years from now, my books are going to be read. They’ll be up on dead Mars with no atmosphere. And late at night, with a flashlight, some little boy is going to peek under the covers and read The Martian Chronicles on Mars.”

Happiness Mars Ray Bradbury

Author:Ray Bradbury

Source: The Martian Chronicles

“The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.”

Wells India China Optimistic China And India

Author:Freeman Dyson

“The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well. It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. They're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to stop that.”

Progress Optimistic

Author:Freeman Dyson

“The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.”

Vulnerable Romantic Relationship

Author:India.Arie

“The thing that makes me really outraged, is the idea that the Mormon Church would presume to get involved in decisions that have little to do with Mormonism.”

Littles Ideas Church Decision Involved Get Involved Outraged Mormonism

Author:Andrew Solomon

“The thing that makes me want to make pictures now is just looking without many prejudices. The stuff right under your eyes is the most wonderful universe - if you care to look with young eyes.”

Ifs Want Looks Eye Care Young Universe Stuff Wonderful Prejudice If You Care

Author:Abelardo Morell

“The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.”

Made Different Decision Numbers Design Clothes Really Great Great Design Tacky

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.”

Ifs Want Dies Ability Generations Hanging Out Spectacular Couches My Generation Plumbing

Author:Lewis Black

“The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.”

Knows Soul Hard Easy Understanding Friendship Quality Friends Wit Disposition Inconstancy

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The thing that Makes people most crazy is not a failure, But rather regret.”

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Author:Wendo Musaly

Source: Wendo Musaly History

“The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.”

Writing Eye Reading Economy Suspects Reading And Writing Market Economy

Author:Richard Powers

“The thing that makes stories memorable is the experiences they impart onto the readership and the emotions that they make those readers feel. The audience will forgive an incredible amount if you deliver them a powerful emotional experience - and, conversely, if your story is emotionally false, no amount of pyrotechnics will save it.”

Ifs Feels Stories Powerful Emotion Audience Emotional Reader Amount Forgiving Incredibles Memorable Comic Book Impart Readership Pyrotechnics

Author:Tom Brevoort

“the thing that "makes us human. We have minds. We make our own choices and live by them. We shape our own lives with how we behave towards others.”

Humanity Choices Being Human The Human Mind Behavior Towards Others Shaping Lives

Author:Raymond Khoury

Source: The Sign

“The thing that makes us know that this "latter rain" that is flooding the world with the glory of God is of the Lord, is because the devil is not in such business.”

Knows World Lord Glory Devil Rain Latter Glory Of God Flooding

Author:William J. Seymour

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”

Ifs Happiness Success Fear Inspiring Loneliness Acceptance Intellectual Lonely Perseverance Exceptional Being Lonely Black Motivational

Author:Lorraine Hansberry

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