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“History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem or sing a song about something, about life - that makes it real. There's the word that goes beyond the word.”

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Author:Mos Def

“How can a country be home to sectarian militias and yet also to people who are educated, sophisticated, and pluralistic? This is not a simple matter. It's the kind of dialectical inquiry that's impossible to present in the world of Twitter feeds and newspapers where stories are shorter and shorter and more simplistic.”

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Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.”

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Author:Michael Hastings

“Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction - to substances, sure, but also to love, sex, success, failure, power.”

Literature Sex Impossible Subjects Adults Addiction Substance Compelling Success Failure

Author:Porochista Khakpour

“I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don't think it's a question of "this is written by someone with an MFA, and this isn't." I challenge anyone to identify a book in that way. It's totally impossible.”

Thinking Way Book Real States Challenges Fiction Impossible Written Effects Program

Author:Chad Harbach

“Freedom, which is an aspect of health, remains impossible as long as we perceive our bodies as a complete definition of ourselves.”

Long Body Impossible Aspect Remains Definitions Perceive

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“It seemed impossible to make an appealing show about bulimia. I mean, it's my story, and even I don't wanna watch that. Plus, everybody told me not to - I like a challenge.”

Mean Stories Shows Challenges Watches Impossible Plus Bulimia

Author:Jessie Kahnweiler

“I didn't believe in Bigfoot.I just thought, "No, that would be impossible. You know, we would have found Bigfoot by now. We would've found some skeletons, we would've found some sort of proof of Bigfoot." So, I didn't believe for a long time, but obviously this is the year we find Bigfoot. And obviously all scientists agree that there's definitely Bigfoot.There's no reason to debate it. It's like debating climate change. There's no reason to debate climate change anymore. There's no reason to debate whether there's Bigfoot. Clearly, the yeti exists.”

Knows Years Believe Long Reason Would Be Found Impossible Long Time Scientist Agree Climate Climate Change Proof Debate No Reason Skeletons Bigfoot Yeti

Author:Rob Huebel

“One of the things about me is that I actually had marginally middle-class living from writing. For years and years, I actually wrote so much through the '70s and '80s that I made a living. And very rarely have I had to take another job. And now it's impossible for anybody coming up to make such a living. They've pissed in the temple, you know?”

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Author:Richard Meltzer

“I think a lot of the bells and whistles that become available to you would be impossible to resist for some people, so it's just never going to be a real stand-in version of your comic. People will have to take advantage of the ability to have sound, or zoom in and out, whatever it is.”

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Author:Adrian Tomine

“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”

Love Wisdom Wise Impossible Being Wise

Book:The Essays of Lord Bacon

Source: The Essays of Lord Bacon

“One must strive to be as honest as you are humanly capable with yourself and others. It is impossible to move forward otherwise.”

Moving Impossible Honest Capable Strive Moving Forward

Author:Tohoru Masamune

“I studied engineering at MIT. There, the late, great physicist Philip Morrison introduced me to the idea that, in any system, there exists the inevitability that an event will occur which is completely unrelated to anything that preceded it. It completely changed my perception of "impossible."”

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Author:Tohoru Masamune

“It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.”

Needs Has Beens Hard Three Focus Impossible Feet Modern Car Cameras Lenses Non Stop

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

“I mean, my wife is always like - I don't write lyrics. So I couldn't, like, really technically write a song for anyone. I could write a very nice instrumental. So she always sort of gives me a hard time because it's just such a ridiculously impossible standard to live up to, that your step-dad wrote that song for your mom.”

Giving Writing Mean Hard Song Steps Nice Wife Impossible Mom Dad Standards Give Me My Wife Hard Times Very Nice Your Mom Step Dad

Author:Mark Ronson

“I remember when I was working on Mission: Impossible 2, John Woo said, "In Hong Kong, there's not much money and a lot of time. In Hollywood, a lot of money, not much time." Personally I'd prefer not much money, a lot of time.”

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Author:William Mapother

“We're obviously at the edge of something quite new in humanity's experience. That is this globalization process which isn't just economic or social, but involves the interpenetration of cultures, people moving to different places several times in their lifetime, traveling for business or pleasure, and marrying people of very different cultural backgrounds, all of which was almost impossible a hundred years ago.”

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Author:Thomas Keating

“I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.”

Thinking Should Long Realizing Perfect Vision Impossible Long Time Ideals Sat Paralyzed

Author:Lev Grossman

“It is hard for an athlete to standout through an email, especially when his email gets mixed in with the emails coming from recruits that think they can play somewhere they really can't. That makes filtering through recruit emails an almost impossible task.”

Thinking Hard Play Impossible Tasks Athlete Email Recruit

Author:Billy Kennedy

“When I first started writing, there was no way I'd write a sex scene. That just seemed impossible. That's why in "Fight Club" all the sex happens off-screen. It's all just a noise on the other side of the wall or the ceiling. I just couldn't bring to write in a scene like that. So one of the challenges with "Choke" was I wanted to write sex scenes until I was really comfortable just writing them in a very mechanical way.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Constraint theory argues a number of things. First, that the impossible has to be identified. Second, that the actor is then constrained by circumstances to act a certain way. For example, should we invade ISIS? Can we invade ISIS? What would it take to invade ISIS? Once you ask that question you discover the price of that option and then you take a look at American politics and see that the country is probably not prepared to invest the 2 to 3 million people that it would take to defeat ISIS and the insurgency afterwards. All right, so that's not going to happen.”

“Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.”

Thinking Impossible Theory Outcomes Constraints Wishful Thinking

Author:George Friedman

“Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that makes the novel possible. Change the limits and the force leaves. The novel becomes impossible.”

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Author:Alexander Chee

“It made it feel impossible, quite honestly, because filming - you film come rain, come shine, come whatever. And it did rain a lot. And of course, that's what she must have gone through. Of course it rained; of course it was cold... But, you know, it really was quite hard to be out there in the rain.”

Knows Feels Made Hard Film Courses Gone Impossible Cold Rain Shining Honestly Made It

Author:Maggie Smith

“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”

Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale

“Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films.”

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Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“Leibniz believed in freedom, both divine and human, and he thought that contingency was a necessary condition of freedom. That is, if an agent A acts freely when choosing X, then A's choosing X cannot be necessary. But there are some elements in his philosophy that seem to make contingency impossible.”

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Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“Their [American banks] big issue will be if they want to deal with the biggest companies, which are doing a lot of business overseas. How they do that is a big question. It's almost impossible to build a global investment bank from scratch. If they want to do that, they probably will have to do an acquisition.”

Ifs Want Bigs Deals Company Issues Impossible Investment Scratches Acquisition Big Questions

Author:Jamie Dimon

“All buoyant leaders are driven by a real ambition- that is, what is being created that didn't exist before- and one criteria for that real ambition, is that on initial inspection, it seems fundamentally impossible.”

Real Seems Leader Impossible Ambition Driven Initials Criteria Inspection

Author:Kevin Allen

“To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.”

Want Ideas Problem Impossible Products Hot Come Up Solve Sauce Mustard Hot Sauce Otaku

Author:Seth Godin

“It's like with Smallville, I'm sure those creators didn't know I had done a ton of Star Trek work. I was just the right guy for the job. Do I gravitate towards it? You do what you are best suited to do, so in me being a comic book fan and a fan of genre from my father being in Mission: Impossible and the spy genre and all that, when I go to audition, perhaps I have a leg up because I understand the universe better.”

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Author:Phil Morris

“The Niagara on a bicycle. It's like trying to cross the Niagara on a bicycle, which is impossible, but it's an expression in the Dominican Republic that basically says that someone is going through a hard time.”

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Author:Juan Luis Guerra

“A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.”

Impossible Gymnastics Comeback

Author:Shawn Johnson

“When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused. But when I'm writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I'm just impossible to get in touch with, and I don't spend time with friends.”

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Author:Adam Rapp

“I promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution. ... It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of that sort of travel. Sitting in a chair that long, driving to Huntsville just wouldn't have happened. ... I'm sure I would have been there. It's something I know. I would not have denied him that, but the accident kept me from being there. At some level, the universe was giving me the excuse for not being there. ... The universe was like, "Oh, you don't have to watch this." ... It would have been a horrible thing, but I'm sure I would have gone.”

“I wanted to preemptively make myself as available as possible, so it would be impossible for anyone to form the wrong impression and make me uncomfortable with the way they were digesting my music.”

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Author:Owen Pallett

“It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.”

Emotion Impossible Unhappy

Author:John Darnielle

“We got a rally a little while later - to talk to the rally because what I heard at that meeting [in Flint] - it was almost impossible for me to believe that I was listening to people in the United States of America in the year 2016.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.”

Way Looks Consciousness Impossible Information Erase

Author:Cass McCombs

“I got asked to remix a lot of movie themes, like Mission Impossible, which other people ended up doing quite well. But it was just never my thing.”

People Wells Impossible Missions Theme Remix Mission Impossible

Author:DJ Shadow

“I've appeared in those kind of films and have great fun doing it, and I'm always up for a challenge. I think with things like Mission: Impossible and Star Trek, those things are such an ensemble, it's not like I'm Ethan Hunt. I'm Benji. I'm the guy that does the computer business. I know my place.”

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Author:Simon Pegg

“Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.”

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Author:Kevin Bacon

“The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.”

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Author:Thomas Mars

“I think the biggest lesson to be learned is that it is almost impossible to just throw a logo on a video. A lot of people think that if you make a really popular video, I can get Pepsi to put a little logo on there and they will pay me a lot of money. We wanted to create something that wasn't just a "slap a logo on the video."”

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Author:Judson Laipply

“I've never seen the Kardashians; I'm not sure who they are. But I know a lot about them because it's impossible not to.”

Knows Impossible Not Sure

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“It's impossible to escape from religion anywhere you are in the States.”

States Impossible

Author:Josh Jones

“Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like our Swedish grandmother who came across the plains, hacked down the trees, and took the Spanish words she encountered and made them hers. Now her great-great-grandchildren sit terrified, wondering what to do with all these Mexicans. The American Dream is an impossible affirmation of possibility. And maybe native-born Americans don't have it anymore. Maybe it has run through their fingers.”

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Author:Richard Rodriguez

“My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.”

Ideas Impossible Media Fashion

Author:Mark Leyner

“I think it's reasonable to say that even thought, in all likelihood, we have slightly different experiences of reality, they are similar enough to us not to clash. In other words, I'm not, it's very unlikely, in fact, let's say impossible, for you to say the situation in which you and I are in right now, relative to the machinery that is capturing this.”

Thinking Different Enough Facts Reality Situation Impossible Right Now Reasonable Relative Machinery Unlikely Clash Likelihood Different Experiences

Author:Antonio Damasio

“I believe that research, that you can claim that you're doing research only if half of the people, and I'm talking about half of the experts, believe that the goal is impossible.”

People Ifs Believe I Believe Goal Half Talking Impossible Research Claims Experts

Author:Burt Rutan

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