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“If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again. If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much; But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.”

Ifs Way Giving Looks May Night Fun Amount Bed Ten Humorous Mark Damn Parks Get Back

Book:Dorothy Parker

Source: Dorothy Parker

“Old Zen was very funny; there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a certain amount of humor, it seems to lack that total intensity because humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.”

Seems Today Certain Deals Amount Tools Primaries Liberation Intensity Introduction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Where you live is important. It is where you dream. You lose or gain a tremendous amount of energy there.”

Important Dream Energy Loses Amount Gains Where You Live

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.”

Giving Certain Order Amount Madness Mma

Author:Joe Rogan

“People can't measure the amount of heart you have and how much you're willing to fight for something.”

People Heart Fighting Willing Amount Mma

Author:Blake Griffin

“The only thing that I always do - is once I've taken on a job, even just to do one scene in a movie, I ask myself, "What's happened the moment the kid was born, until page one of the script?" To answer that simple question, I have an infinite amount of work to do. And I enjoy that part as much as I enjoy any part of making movies.”

Moments Kids Jobs Asks Enjoy Born Simple Answers Taken Happened Amount Scene Pages Infinite Scripts

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.”

Ifs Want Writing Firsts Mean Book Tvs Amount Ridiculous

Author:Josh Lieb

“I think for every artist it's important to always keep this amount of doubt until the very last day of shooting.”

Thinking Important Lasts Artist Doubt Amount Shooting Last Day

Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“Children who are brought up with one parent or another parent or shared parenthood, when there has been a divorce and hatred within families, it breeds a tremendous amount of instability in the life of a child. And many of these children end up in the homosexual movement. Even if they don't, they take so much baggage into their marriages, that they are unable sometimes, at least theoretically unable, to stand against all of the cultural forces that would disrupt them and their families.”

Ifs Children Has Beens Ends Sometimes Force Parent Movement Amount Hatred Divorce Parenthood Homosexual Baggage Instability

Author:Erwin W. Lutzer

“I can walk into a gun store in my town and buy military-grade weapons. You'd be shocked by the amount of firepower you can buy - 50 caliber sniper rifles and the same shotguns the Marines carry in Iraq or Afghanistan. It doesn't matter whether I know how to use these things - I can just walk into a store and buy them.”

Knows I Can Matter Use Walks Know How Military Amount Weapons Gun Towns Iraq Stores Grades Afghanistan Shocked Marine Rifles Caliber Shotguns Snipers

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“I'm always repeating myself. You never just do a scene once, you do it an insane amount of times.”

Amount Scene Insane

Author:Michiel Huisman

“The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.”

Ends Film Wonderful Middle Amount Concrete Wonderful Things Beginning Middle And End

Author:Lucy Liu

“I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of emotions. The feeling is underneath, which in my experience is where most feeling is. I don't myself spend my life shouting in rooms, and I don't really believe things in which people do spend their time in total hysteria.”

People Thinking Believe Play Feelings Rooms Emotion Huge Amount Display Shouting Hysteria

Author:David Hare

“I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.”

Done Would Be Fun Space Amount Enormous

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Writing I Can Certain Social Bits Levels Deals Amount Cat Nuts Not Alone Because I Can Like Being Alone Cat Lady

Author:Courtney Love

“Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force. When less color and less intense color is present, trace amounts and subtle differences become highly significant and are strongly felt.”

Force Felt Differences Powerful Color Amount Significant Intense Psychological Colour Subtle

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“The whole secret to winning and losing in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible when you're not right.”

Whole Winning Loses Secret Amount Losing Winning And Losing

Author:William O'Neil

“My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.”

Has Beens Together Mother Certain Parent Loss Results Wonderful Amount Married Teenager Working Together Autonomy Involving Wonderful Marriage

Author:Jessica Valenti

“Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.”

Energy Answers Amount Climate Environmental Climate Change Global Warming Sustainability Renewable Energy

Author:Christiana Figueres

“The space that we're looking through is nine-dimensional. If you build a mathematical model, the amount of searching that we've done in 50 years is equivalent to scooping one 8-ounce glass out of the Earth's ocean, looking and seeing if you caught a fish. No, no fish in that glass? Well, I don't think you're going to conclude that there are no fish in the ocean. You just haven't searched very well yet. That's where we are.”

Ifs Thinking Years Wells Done Earth Space Seeing Havens Amount Ocean Models Glasses Caught Fishes Nine Mathematical Mathematical Models

Author:Jill Tarter

“I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.”

Knows Suffering Dog Amount Mourning

Book:You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness

Source: You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness

“The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.”

Games Amount Gambling

Author:E. W. Howe

“Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.”

Mind Book Reading Materials Amount Dresses Suits Ruins Quantity Metaphysics Indulge Indulge In

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress in the first term knows you'll be out there in the next campaign with them, .. Your motives are always a little more suspect when you don't have to face the voters again.”

Knows Firsts Littles Faces Certain Next Term Loses Challenges Amount Congress Campaigns Administration Motive Suspects Voters Identification

Author:Roy Blunt

“The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.”

Ideas Amount Harbors Profundity Chiaroscuro

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

“I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.”

People Certain Order Given Stuff Enjoy Amount Projects Come Up Thrive Collaboration

Author:William Kempe

“I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.”

Amount Fairs Planes

Author:Emily Oster

“You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.”

World Certain Break Amount Healthy Changing The World Willingness Can't Change

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“It is hard to convince people of this, but oatmeal truly is miraculous. It gives you an amazing amount of energy, like cocaine.”

People Giving Hard Energy Amount Convince Miraculous Cocaine Oatmeal

Book:Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps

Source: Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps

“The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as pleasant as possible afterwards. What is necessary? That was the unspoken but implied, and unavoidable question everywhere in India.”

Force Violence Journey Example Amount India Train Boards Pleasant Consideration Politeness Unspoken Implied

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count…Provided I like it!”

Men Play Games Names Land Amount

Author:Puggy Pearson

“The increase in the amount of heat in the oceans amounts to 17 x 10^22 Joules over the last 30 years. That is so much energy it is equivalent to exploding a Hiroshima bomb every second in the ocean for thirty years.”

Years Lasts Energy Amount Ocean Increase Heat Thirty Bombs Thirty Years Every Second Exploding Hiroshima

Author:Stefan Rahmstorf

“The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing.”

World Giving States Ability United United States Amount Sells Good Things Investors Transparent

Author:Jamie Dimon

“Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World' is my ultimate karaoke song. It is a wonderful world. People forget we only have a certain amount of time, and it can all end at any moment. Armstrong and Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' are the ultimate one-two punch.”

People World Way Two Ends Moments Certain Song Forget Wonderful Amount Ultimate My Way Frank Armstrong Karaoke Wonderful World

Author:Dhani Jones

“Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.”

People Ifs Has Beens Found Bits Difficult Amount Genius Vary Adjectives Nouns

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.”

Ifs Want Kind I Can Different Film Creative Amount Satisfaction Ridiculous Cinema Different Kinds

Author:Karisma Kapoor

“Death is death. Whether you die smiling or with tears in your eyes, it amounts to the same thing. A whole heap of nothing”

Whole Eye Dies Tears Amount Tears In Your Eyes

Book:Vampirates: Tide of Terror

Source: Vampirates: Tide of Terror

“I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.”

Amount Ridiculous Refining

Author:David Pogue

“Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.”

Men Issues Amount Crisis Radical Accomplished Emergencies Rugged

Author:James A. Garfield

“The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.”

Men Pride Amount Treats Inferiors Cringe

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.”

Way Government Opportunity Wealth Amount Importance Realistic Money In Politics

Book:With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002

Source: With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002

“The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.”

Produce Amount Disease Research Clever Cures Allowing Cleverness Small Is Beautiful

Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.”

People Thinking Games Bits Watches Cutting Tvs Amount Internet Starting Video Passive Unbelievable Watching Tv Playing Video Games

Author:Bill Gates

“Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.”

Art Amount Spending Art History

Author:Jerry Saltz

“If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.”

Ifs Mind Dream Amount Quiet Guarantees Tied Restraint Submission

Book:Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Source: Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

“A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.”

Values Social Greater Greatness Depends Amount Mass Labor Productions Substance Relative Commodity Relative Value

Book:Value, Price and Profit

Source: Value, Price and Profit

“The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.”

Ends Values Amount Labor Aim Productions Motive Capitalist Exploits Surplus

Book:Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy

Source: Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy

“I see a lot of parallels between my candidacy and the Tea Party. I would not have been elected had there not been a tremendous amount of dissatisfaction and discouragement and disgust with what was going on in Washington.”

Has Beens Party Amount Tea Disgusting Parallels Dissatisfaction Tea Party Discouragement Candidacy

Author:Jimmy Carter

“A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.”

Writing Wells Kind Important Waiting Water Amount Important Things Dry Pumps Refills

Book:Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Source: Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .”

Fighting Amount Killers Martian Chronicles

Book:The Martian Chronicles

Source: The Martian Chronicles

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