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“There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.”

Huge Amount Distance Complicated Spending Pondering

Author:Elvis Costello

“When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.”

Wanted Roles Amount Dramatic

Author:Will Arnett

“I feel a certain amount of freedom just cruising to the liquor store to get water or whatever. It just feels good. It makes me feel young getting on the bike and - again, not going crazy, I do bunny-hops and I'll hit some curbs and stuff - but just feeling like a kid again.”

Feels Feelings Kids Young Certain Stuff Water Crazy Amount Stores Feel Good Hops Bike Liquor Curb Bunnies Going Crazy Liquor Stores

Author:Matt Skiba

“Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.”

Mean Country Parent Amount Russia Best Things

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with track shoes in it, and I used to go to the track every day.”

Running Kids Today Used Amount Walking Basketball Training Shoes Track Extremes Bags

Author:Edwin Moses

“It was probably very difficult to go from Chinese and then suddenly go to kindergarten and start speaking English; it's very hard to transition back and forth when you are in that pivotal age. It's also hard to transition back, but if I was immersed in the country for a given amount of time, you are surrounded by it, everyone is speaking, you are learning new things, you are practicing all the time.”

Ifs Country Hard Age Given Difficult Amount Chinese Transition New Things Back And Forth Kindergarten Pivotal Learning New Learning New Things

Author:Lucy Liu

“I'd never seen Marcello [Mastroianni] truly in love with a woman. I called him "the man who couldn't love." He was capable of enormous amounts of affection. He respected the women who were close to him, but never once fell in love.”

Men He Man Amount Capable Affection Enormous

Author:Giovanna Cau

“I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it's horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.”

Ifs Want Years Firsts Matter Stuff Deals Months Amount Six Horrible Diets Six Months

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of information in his head.”

Father Ability Information Amount Enormous Thrill

Author:Stephen Hawking

“To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.”

Artist Amount Succeed Equal Crafts Businessman

Author:Debbie Harry

“Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.”

Years Heart Amount Disease Fats Trans Premature Heart Disease Small Amounts Premature Death

Author:Walter Willett

“Think about how rare it is for anyone to encounter a teacher who can open you up to the notion that there is an infinite amount of meaning and possibility and inspiration in the smallest thing before you.”

Thinking Inspiration Teacher Possibility Amount Infinite Notion Encounters Smallest

Author:Greil Marcus

“To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.”

Years Mind Past My Own Five Meditation Amount Praise Thirty Five Years Coincidence

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“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

“The questions to ask are what is moral, what is ethical, what is in line with your belief system, and what seems to make the most sense and cause the least amount of harm? Eat the foods that are in line with your sincere answers.”

Seems Asks Belief Causes Lines Answers Moral Amount Harm Sincere Ethical Belief Systems

Book:Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness

Source: Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness

“Man must learn to believe in that which he does not, at the moment, see in order to grant himself that which he desires to have. Man's prayers are always answered, for he always receives that which he believes. The law that governs prayer is impersonal. Belief is the condition necessary to realize the desire. No amount of pleas or ritual will bring about the fulfillment of your desires other than the belief that you are or have that which you want.”

Men Want Believe Doe Moments Law Desire Order Belief Realizing Prayer Conditions Amount Fulfillment Grants Ritual

Author:Neville Goddard

“Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.”

Two Problem Lasts Culture Growth Known Century Amount Dependent Stability Principal Incapable Parallels Constraints Reckoning Continuance Exponential Growth

Author:M. King Hubbert

“What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting a job?”

Ifs Knows Doe Facts Jobs Black Hours Pay Youth Amount Paid Employers Black Youth

Book:Economics

Source: Economics

“I wake up with new dreams every day. So the more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me. And the older I get, the earlier I get up. The second my feet hit the floor, I'm awake. I'm like hurry, hurry. I just love life. And I feel like we ain't got but a certain amount of time anyway. I want to make the most of all of it.”

Want Feels I Can Dream Certain Can Do Feet Amount Wake Up Get Up Awake Love Life

Author:Dolly Parton

“When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.”

Thinking Kids Mother Father Amount Dreamer

Author:Frank Gehry

“I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.”

Information Amount Understood Noise Minimum Maximum Conveying

Author:Quentin Crisp

“I'm often asked, Which is more important--attitude or skill? The answer is that it's somewhat like asking which leg of a three-legged stool is most important. It is my complete conviction, based on a considerable amount of research, that if you have the right attitude, combined with the right skills, and build your attitude and your skills on a solid character base, you can enjoy long-lasting success.”

Ifs Long Important Character Three Enjoy Answers Attitude Amount Skills Research Asking Conviction Legs Lasting Stools Long Lasting

Book:Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

Source: Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

“I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.”

People World Feels Has Beens Done Seems Would Be Consciousness Amount Murder Vanity Oppressed Diminish Weariness Tedium

Book:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914

“I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.”

Men Way Order Reading Language Social Plans Amount Constant Prison Memoir Range Impressed Apostles Social Order Trotsky

Author:Dorothy Day

“Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that.”

Firsts Has Beens Fun Amount Blind Cancer Poison Breasts Massive Breast Cancer Blind Date

Author:Molly Ivins

“You can't judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him.”

Giving Ability Judging Amount Doctors Praise Undertaker

Author:Evan Esar

“Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.”

Earth Energy Sun Forever Wind Amount Built Fuel Carbon Infrastructure Limitless Alternative Energy

Book:Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis

Source: Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis

“There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.”

Thinking Happens Certain Car Amount Bravery Brave Drivers Sensible Be Brave

Author:Paul Newman

“Restraining, saving, assuring your checkbook balance...what does all taht amount to? If I go broke one day I'll just take out loans”

Ifs Doe Amount Balance One Day Saving Broke Loan Restraining

Author:Novala Takemoto

“I always imagine the world and myself above it and how minute one negative person's voice is in comparison to the amount of people that are in the world.”

People World Persons Voice Imagine Minutes Amount Negative Comparison

Author:Jessie J

“When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.”

Persons Action Grace Amount

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.”

One Thing Regret Amount Travel Enormous My Time Funny Travel I Regret

Author:Neil Armstrong

“NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.”

People Wells Has Beens Young Motivation Successful Achieve Students Amount Investment Programmes Nasa Stimulation

Author:Neil Armstrong

“Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.”

Wells Persons Fall Five Building Amount Late Rewards Secure Features Too Late Indebted

Book:THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

Source: THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

“If you are someone, you know, with fame, whatever amount, it's good to be married to someone who's not impressed with that at all.”

Ifs Knows Amount Fame Married Impressed Being Married Not Impressed

Author:Ray Romano

“According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence.”

Matter Differences Brain Study Amount Gray Twins Identical Fraternal Gray Matter

Book:The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.”

“It is paltry philosophy if in the old-fashioned way one lays down rules and principles in total disregard of moral values . As soon as these appear one regards them as exceptions, which gives them a certain scientific status, and thus makes them into rules. Or again one may appeal to genius , which is above all rules; which amounts to admitting that rules are not only made for idiots , but are idiotic in themselves.”

Ifs Way Giving May Made Philosophy Certain Values Moral Principles Amount Genius Regard Lays Appeals Idiot Exception Old Fashioned Disregard Admitting Idiotic Moral Values

Book:On War

Source: On War

“The least amount of buttons [in suit], the better. If you have to go with three, you can go three. But all that eight-button stuff? Nuh-uh, not a fan.”

Ifs Three Stuff Fans Amount Eight Suits Buttons

Author:Chris Paul

“I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.”

Knows Audience Amount Narrative Constructs Tropes

Author:Paul Scheuring

“Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.”

Ifs Want Heart Stills Real Able Certain Suffering Loses Hurt Willing Amount Tricks Over You Good Life

Author:Will Smith

“I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.”

I Can Sound Amount Incredibles Acceptable

Author:Matt Ross

“If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Wells Play Motivational Games Football Amount Nightmare Coverage Bad Games

Author:Steven Gerrard

“I have a limitless amount of great music at my disposal and it's very, very pleasurable because when the music goes on the film it's amazing how much it livens up the film and gives it an emotional kick in the pants, sort of.”

Giving Film Emotional Goes On Amount Kicks Pants Limitless Great Music

Author:Woody Allen

“I can do a limited amount of things and that's what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have no particular desire to do anything else as an actor.”

Feels I Can Desire Actors Can Do Particular Amount Comfortable

Author:Woody Allen

“I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical conduct are de-activated. Perhaps the greater the amount of money to be made, the greater the deactivation of the system that regulates ethical behaviour.”

Made Strong Brain Greater Amount Greed Operations Ethical Suspicion Behaviour

Author:Semir Zeki

“The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.”

Order Evil Amount Goodness Chaos Construction Invoke

Book:Gabo : constructions, sculpture, paintings, drawings, engravings : with introductory essays

Source: Gabo : constructions, sculpture, paintings, drawings, engravings : with introductory essays

“No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things.”

Artist Passion Amount Ultimate Passionate Caring Sufficient Competence Self Sufficient Technical Knowledge

Author:Freeman Patterson

“It seems to me that the whole purpose of the workshops is really twofold. One - to help people make better pictures, and two - to unleash their creativity to the fullest amount that they possibly can.”

People Two Whole Helping Seems Purpose Creativity Amount Workshops

Author:Freeman Patterson

“Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.”

People Social Acceptance Amount Mass Labor Google Volunteer Social Acceptance

Author:Jaron Lanier