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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten. ↗

— Sam Elliott

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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ↗

— Max Eastman

#go #goal #him #joke #just

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#because #been #complete #embarrassment #everybody

I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it. ↗

— John Eaton

#expressive #great #i #just #potential

In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed. ↗

— John Eaton

#being #experience #failed #how #i

I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#books #brought #closer #discuss #family

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer. ↗

— Barney Frank

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Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#been #conditions #forgotten #heart #inner

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#failure #first #i #man #me

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#i #i think #men #tender #think