Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: watch

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Quoted In The Grove:
A person knowing the power of the word becomes very careful of his conversation. He has only to watch the reaction of his words to know that they do “not return void.” Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.
~Florence Scovel Shinn

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.
~Scott McCloud

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
~Shana Alexander

EndQuote:
Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn.
~Shawn Ashmore

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Next Exercise Prompt: version

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I’ve spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it’s not about flaunting my wealth. I don’t have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I’ve been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event.
~Jenson Button

I have a Mercedes. I wear a Rolex watch. I have no problem with the selling of things.
~Juergen Teller

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.
~Helen Fisher

I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.
~Tamer Hassan

I love Casio G-Shocks. My dream is to have watches in all colours. I also love gold watches. I’d like to have a diamond-studded gold watch some day.
~Armaan Malik

Gold teeth was just something that was popular down in Texas and around the country for a while. Growing up, it was something that you would do. You get a gold chain or watch, or grill, it was a status symbol. Like a trophy: I made it, or I made some money.
~Paul Wall

I remember opening my dad’s closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just… he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.
~Jon Hamm

I don’t own a watch anymore. Literally, that was an addiction. I’m not afraid to admit that. It took me over. My possessions possessed me.
~J J Redick

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A man’s got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.
~John Mayer

I’m very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
~Woody Allen

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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
~Jane Austen

Time is irrelevant to me. I never wear a watch.
~Mariah Carey

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
~Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
~William Faulkner

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you ‒ you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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I watch ‘Mad Men,’ I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.
~Annie Lennox

I’m really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow…
I stay at home and watch the river flow.
~George Harrison

I’m very much in the trenches, and I don’t live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there’s always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.
~Pink

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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I’m still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
~Zac Efron

I have a fascination for cartoons. No matter how many times ‘Tom and Jerry‘ fall, you never complain, and watch it again.
~Priyadarshan

*IT I’ll watch a Pixar movie over and over and over again. I’ll be with friends of mine who have kids, that want to watch ‘Finding Nemo,’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, okay, let’s watch ‘Nemo’ again, for the seven billionth time!,’ because they’re amazing movies.
~Zachary Levi

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It’s just not December without that movie in my house.
~Tom Hanks

I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch “Singin’ in the Rain” and “White Christmas” – those kind of movies.
~Lucas Grabeel

I used to watch ‘The Waltons’ and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.
~Paula Poundstone

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I don’t like going out. I’m more of a watch TV, hang out, Netflix kind of guy. I don’t like leaving; I don’t like talking to people. It gives me anxiety.
~Pete Davidson

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don’t have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I’m blowing out candles gives me hives.
~Brit Marling

There’s a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang
out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I’ve got to see my friends ’cause I’m too content being by myself.
~Drew Barrymore

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we’re really lazy and we play PlayStation.
~Daniel Radcliffe

Now on Friday nights, if I want to go hang out with friends, I go hang out with friends. If I want to stay in and be in the hot tub and have people over to watch movies, I do that.
~Demi Lovato

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.
~Maya Angelou

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When you’re a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don’t have a thought in your mind. It’s purely meditation, and we lose that.
~Dick Van Dyke

If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you’re laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body.
~Miranda Kerr

To live peacefully just look up into the sky and watch how the clouds drift in total acceptance. Instantly, you shall find Peace.
~RVM

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
~John Lubbock

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Posted From The Grove

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.
~Lillian Hellman

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene ‒ it’s hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.
~Kristen Bell

I’m not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
~Sally Rand

There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened.
~Tommy Lasorda

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The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
~Elizabeth Gaskell

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‘solution’ to society’s ‘problems.’
~Thomas Sowell

Listen and watch the world around you. Don’t be satisfied with answers others give you.
~Avi

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
~James Thomson

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I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
~Henry Kissinger

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
~Arnold Schwarzenegger

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
~Denis Diderot

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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
~Edmund Burke

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.
~Ursus Wehrli

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You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.
~Nicholas Kristof

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
~Paulo Coelho

I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
~Sachin Tendulkar

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
~Otto von Bismarck

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If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may or what films he may watch.
~Thurgood Marshall

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Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
~Woodrow Wilson

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
~George W Bush

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To serve in the modern military ‒ or to be the uncle, parent or sibling of one who does ‒ is to treat the necessary service and sacrifice of war with a sacred honor. In my community, we pile into cars and drive hundreds of miles to watch our children’s graduation from basic training.
~J D Vance

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The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.
~John L Lewis

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.
~Frances Perkins

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It’s a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.
~George McGovern

My friends were dropping like flies, and the government wasn’t doing anything. You don’t watch an entire generation take water hoses and dogs on the front line during the ’60s or watch another generation perish from AIDS and then get to drive around in big cars and do nothing.
~Jenifer Lewis

As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.
~Thomas Frank

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
~Gloria Steinem

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Migrant workers have helped build our roads, homes and offices. We cannot stand and watch them be homeless.
~Sonu Sood

Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.
~Eric Liu

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Endure the present, and watch for better things.
~Virgil

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
~A A Milne

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We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.
~Viola Spolin

The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord
~Michael Bassey Johnson

How people see the world is often a reflection of how they see themselves. If they think that the world is just a cesspool of lies and deceit, then they themselves may be full of lies and deceit. Watch out for those people who are always telling you just how corrupt the rest of the world is. As the saying goes, ‘It takes one to know one.’
~David J Lieberman

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I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
~Will Rogers

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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
~William Tecumseh Sherman

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America’s arrogance – before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans – helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.
~Rick Santorum

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Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.
~Ron Wyden

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
~Paul Krugman

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I’m interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don’t watch politics for sport.
~Anna Chlumsky

I try not to tune in to politics until it’s two or three months before the election. Till then, it’s like watching preseason football.
~Trey Parker

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When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch ‘Soul Train,’ but I still had that weird in-between thing.
~Neneh Cherry

Mainstream media has convinced people that black people aren’t relatable. So when a Jewish person comes up to me and is all, ‘Oh man, I love that one scene from Episode 3, I watch it over and over again,’ I’m so happy. Because that’s what I want.
~Issa Rae

‘Moonlight‘ undoes our expectations as viewers, and as human beings, too. As we watch, another movie plays in our minds: real-life footage of the many forms of damage done to black men, which can sometimes lead them to turn that hateful madness on their own kind, passing on the poison that was their inheritance.
~Hilton Als

I don’t think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some reason, there’s an idea that only white people are relatable. I don’t think it’s necessarily racist. But it’s odd, because the people who watch the most television are black women, so we should be represented in more ways.
~Issa Rae

I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show [The Honeymooners]. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I’m not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I’m a black man.
~Mike Epps

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I’d always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
~Barbara Kruger

We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.
~Jordan Peele

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they’re watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.
~Bob Woodward

I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.
~Alberto Gonzales

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Conservatives watch Fox News and read ‘Breitbart.’ Liberals watch MSNBC and read ‘HuffPost.’ When we agree, it’s the truth; when we differ, it’s fake news.
~Richard Cohen

The public doesn’t know what to believe anymore. We don’t know what stories are supposedly true, this idea of ‘fake news.’ We watch it on what I guess you would call a split-focus. It’s half entertainment and half mystery.
~Barry Levinson

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Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.
~Arthur C Nielsen (Neilsen ratings)

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TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It’s downright bad for your health now, and that’s not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
~Tom Petty

What people think of me doesn’t affect me. As bizarre as it sounds, I don’t have a Google alert on my phone; I don’t read newspapers, and I don’t watch television. If something important happens, I will get to know about it.
~Sushant Singh Rajput

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Unsolicited Essay #24

The travel videos below feature rapid fire images from three different countries of our shared world. The images suggest that people are people are humans everywhere, yes… but different, in fact… recognizably different, selfishly different ‒ over there …people not us. But, what if these differences are the whole and entire point; that our vast and varied differences are what prepare us for our encounter with the stars?

Perhaps, in these last-chance days of empire building, minor differences may seem reason enough, legitimate reasons, for going to war. But imagine: should planet Earth be attending some sort of stellar-high school before graduating to the stars, it is not unlikely that there would be some sort of test, an entrance exam, something that shows we’ve learned something, a nascent wisdom worthy of earning a place in their graduate school.

Human differences, at their worst, might appear simply exotic, stellar-wise; but failing to accept our own unique, in-world identities, would almost certainly get us eliminated under a ‘failure to adapt’ ruling. Wars don’t migrate to the ancient stars from upstart worlds. Our own self-loathing wars, and lack of curiosity, would make it impossible for us to survive their stellar strangeness. This kiss-of-death to our chances for advancing: self-inflicted

Competition (business, politics, religion) has sharpened mankind wonderfully, but serves as the very model, and epitome, of difference. Each survives only by the efforts of those preaching and promoting their brand of difference. It may be necessary, finally, to accept our various versions of contrast and variety before we can graduate. Our currently corrosive times would seem to serve very nicely as a final test before getting to meet the others. Hypothetically.

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Watchtower of Turkey (3:32) host of the series

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~Talita Maris: Oh Iran (3:32) awkwardly, kindness and beauty seem to matter here, too

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Watchtower of China (4:04) multitudes of possibility, with a history to manage responsibly

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~S.B: THE WATCH (1:10) the most complicated ever made.

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~Tony Lee: Pocket Watch (0:24) basic pocket watch assembled, animated

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You don’t need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.
~Harvey Mackay

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.
~Thomas Frank

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Watch over thy expenditure, for he who through vain glory spendeth uselessly what he hath on empty follies, will receive neither return nor praise from anyone.
~Firdausi

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
~Andrew Carnegie

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show [Mad Money]. I just do not follow his advice.
~Robert Kiyosaki

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If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.
~John C Maxwell

Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.
~Simon Sinek

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
~Alexander Clark

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The world is divided into three types of people in business: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
~Karren Brady

At Netflix, we realized that we weren’t in business with the Toshibas and the Sonys of the world. We were in business with the guy sitting at home trying to find a DVD to watch. If we had the courage to focus on him, everyone ‒ movie studios, electronics companies, Netflix itself ‒ won.
~Marc Randolph

YouTube is a free service that is extremely easy to use. There are no downloads, and hundreds of audio and video formats are instantly converted to Flash, which makes it fast and easy for the community to watch and share video.
~Steve Chen

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If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that’s not much ‒ unless you’ve been warned that if you’re even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.
~Zig Ziglar

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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I’m a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
~Ted Turner

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If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.
~Joey Adams

I think, as a chef and restaurateur, that you have to take care of your business. Otherwise, you’re only as good as your last meal. You have to watch if your food costs are too high, or you could be out of business in no time.
~Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!
~Karl Lagerfeld

Don’t watch the clock, do what it does. Keep Going.
~Sam Levenson

You don’t want to work on a job where you’re looking at your watch.
~Stephen Hillenburg

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As humans, we have evolved to compete… it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.
~Peter Diamandis

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If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
~Bob Hope

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.
~Roger Kahn

Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
~P G Wodehouse

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Win or lose, you have to leave the crowd on their feet and be someone they like to watch.
~Marlon Moraes

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.
~Gerald R Ford

I’m a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it’s pure.
~Hugh Jackman

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I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.
~Conor McGregor

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.
~Andy Murray (tennis)

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People play games seriously. People host tournaments. People watch other people play and listen to broadcasters talking about it. The kind of entire ecosystem we see around other sports and forms of entertainment has formed around games as well.
~Jensen Huang

You want to stop playing ‘Fortnite,’ man, because you aren’t having fun anymore? Good. Go watch someone else.
~Ninja

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I don’t like sports where it’s like, you watch a guy on a motorcycle flip or something, then another guy does it, it looks exactly the same, and then at the end one guy gets higher points! It seems so arbitrary; I don’t know who’s ahead ever.
~Norm MacDonald

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I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.
~Joe Frazier

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
~Paul Fussell

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I don’t watch baseball ‒ it’s too long and boring.
~Anthony Rendon (3rd base)

We’ve just got to be careful – with all sports, let alone cricket – I think there’s so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.
~Shane Warne

Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way ‒ a first-order, first-person experience ‒ rather than filtered through the mind of another.
~Jon Kabat-Zinn

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I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.
~Kylie Bax

If you’re working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That’s why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.
~Lewis Black

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Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel.
~Steven Seagal

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It’s a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can’t live with what everyone’s impression of what I should or what I shouldn’t do.
~Michael Jordan

You can love me, you can hate me, but just don’t be indifferent. Care about it enough to watch.
~Daniel Cormier

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Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
~Armstrong Williams

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.
~Virat Kohli

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
~Jackie Robinson

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I cannot have a concept of football where everything is based on the opposition. We have to dictate the game, we have to be the ones taking the initiative, and we have to entertain the people coming to watch us.
~Mikel Arteta

My mom’s whole side of the family, they’re all Packers fans. My mom’s a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can’t watch it together. Football’s a violent anger in our family dynamic.
~Ashton Kutcher

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See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It’s not church. It’s not serious.
~Charles Barkley

Coaches have to watch for what they don’t want to see and listen to what they don’t want to hear.
~John Madden

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I might go my whole life stealing money. I got paid to play basketball, which is a scam. I get paid to watch basketball, which is a scam.
~Charles Barkley

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
~Xi Jinping

I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart; whenever I step on the floor, I play for that person.
~Tyson Chandler

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I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.
~Jean Dujardin

Ranbir has the ability to be a natural in front of the camera. There is nothing artificial about him. When I watch him on screen, I always feel that he is not acting. And I see this quality only in him among my contemporaries.
~Diljit Dosanjh

Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don’t know if you’d call him a great actor, but he’s amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.
~F Murray Abraham

What a person feels within themselves and about themselves radiates from them. Trust me, I have worked with people ‒ both men and women ‒ who are not what most would consider conventionally attractive, but who exude such a magnetism about them that people are compelled to watch them on stage or screen.
~Amanda Schull

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I don’t prepare for my roles. I don’t watch movies to get inspired. I don’t dig deep. I’ll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.
~Bow Wow

There’s a constant flow of child actors. It’s kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You’re going to have to struggle for a long time.
~Tina Yothers

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My daddy had a pocket watch that he wore at all times in court. I gave Greg the watch and showed him how Daddy used to use it.
~Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird)

My job, as an actor, is to give the director options. You can only hope that the takes that you thought were the best were chosen. But, then again, if I don’t watch it, I’ll never know.
~Johnny Depp

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who’s not their partner. It’s really kind of gross.
~Megan Fox

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There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
~Sean Penn

I don’t want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that’s under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.
~Danny Boyle

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.
~James Cameron

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren’t so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he’s a poet in black and white.
~Jonathan Lethem

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I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.
~Rose McGowan

I thought ‘The Artist’ was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don’t want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything.
~Michel Hazanavicius

I’m no actor. And I wasn’t like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw ‘The Graduate’ I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.
~Nancy Meyers

Everything’s always got to be character-based. We know we can’t, if we’re sitting in the editing room, watch the sequence for more than 20 seconds without a character having a point of view or moving the action forward; my brain just shuts down, or I start thinking about my laundry.
~Anthony Russo

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I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn’t been interested in and cultural things I hadn’t been aware of and economic factors I hadn’t thought about.
~Hideo Kojima

We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.
~Jordan Peele

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I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That’s a beautiful gift from God. If people don’t want to see that anymore then I won’t be in anymore movies.
~Debra Winger

If you don’t like my movies, don’t watch them.
~Dario Argento [horror]

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Anything that has a dragon, a wand, pixie dust, fairies, magic, any of that, I love it. I’m obsessed with it, I will read it, I will watch it, I will commit it to memory.
~Frankie Grande

I did this Super-8 film at art school called ‘Tissues,’ this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.
~Jane Campion

I feel like every night, when you see a really good production of ‘Romeo and Juliet‘ or something, you should hope that it ends differently. That’s why we watch our favorite movies again and again.
~Leslie Odom, Jr

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I’ll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
~Ian Mcewan

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My dad’s a doctor, and he’d watch ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ and he’d be like, ‘This is not okay. This isn’t what it’s like.’ And we’re like, ‘Shut up, it’s not about that. That’s not why we’re watching it.’
~Emily Bett Rickards

Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They’re fun to watch, but they don’t have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do.
~David Ignatius

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Popstars really draws you in. It’s fascinating. It’s interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren’t involved and they weren’t trying to be world famous. It’s the Real World, only better.
~Scott Patterson

I didn’t watch much television growing up, and before I did ‘Boston Legal,’ I had no understanding of what it was like for a viewer to look forward to finding out what was going to happen the next week.
~James Spader

I used to work in ‘Big Brother‘ in the third series, I was a logger, which was the worst of all jobs, you had to sit and watch what happens and type it into a computer.
~Alex Horne

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I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I’m all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It’s what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it’s entertainment first, otherwise we’d be on a lecture circuit.
~Joe Flanigan (Stargate Atlantis)

The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that’s not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That’s the reality of it.
~Jimmy Kimmel

There’s times where you can watch television and say, ‘Look at that cheesy thing they’re doing for ratings,’ and you’re right.
~Lawrence O’Donnell

When I have had a long day at work, I want something to watch that is funny, lighthearted and easy to get into, and reality is that. I’m not really into serious programmes or documentaries.
~Amy Childs

It doesn’t matter how good you are, it’s about connecting with your audience. It doesn’t matter how technically good you are, if nobody wants to watch you then you’re no good to anybody.
~William Regal

We don’t make movies for critics. I’ve done four movies; there’s millions upon millions upon millions of people who’ve paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.
~Michael Bay

I was always very dramatic ‒ my family would probably use the word ‘dramatic’ ‒ as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.
~Margot Robbie

I always remember what my dad told me when I decided to turn into an actor. He was emphatic that whatever I do, I should get accepted by the audiences who watch my films.
~Karthik

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It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay – by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.
~Angela Merkel

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And there’s a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it’s not CG, there’s something funny about it.
~Matt Stone (puppeteer)

But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it’s a very different animal. You know, they’re running around, they’re getting their kids ready for school, they’re probably doing eight million things, they’re brushing their teeth.
~Katie Couric

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~AICP: Museum-Worthy (2:44) watch-worthy

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~FUTURE: Danny Boy (10:18) absurdist: a submission

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Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
~Mariah Carey

I’m just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don’t see half of the film because I’m too upset.
~Neve Campbell

I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.
~Antonio Banderas

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No, no, I don’t watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what’s going on in their brains. It’s like torture to me.
~Bennet Omalu

I don’t want to be agitated so much on television. I don’t need to watch any more agitation.
~Andie MacDowell

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People go to car races to watch the crashes… It’s a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It’s funny and accessible.
~Johnny Knoxville

CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the ’70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They’re really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
~Quentin Tarantino

We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature.
~Kenneth Oppel

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
~Michael Mandelbaum

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
~Quentin Tarantino

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When I first envisioned ‘Funny Games’ in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.
~Michael Haneke

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male ‒ or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you’ll see what I mean.
~Kurt Cobain

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I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.
~John Mayer

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence – I find that offensive. I think that’s potentially damaging to society.
~Dean Koontz

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I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it’s drama, it’s the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.
~Nicolas Cage

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Field of Dreams is the only movie – and I saw it in the theater – on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn’t get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.
~Paul Reiser

I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump… I like that guy. I’ve been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.
~Jack Ma

When I was a kid, I really loved watching ‘Cinderella.’ It’s a fantasy, and every girl knows that real life isn’t always like these movies, but as a child, I just really loved the story of ‘Cinderella.’ I found it to be so romantic and just a beautiful movie to watch.
~Sara Ramirez

I love ‘House of Cards.’ I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book.
~Alexandra Daddario

I watched season four of ‘The Wire.’ They have subtle performances that they do through their eyes. You could watch season four with the audio off and still understand what’s happening through their eyes.
~John Boyega

‘The Exorcist‘ is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don’t know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn’t go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn’t go upstairs by myself. I couldn’t sleep.
~Odette Annable

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like ‘The Grudge’, I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.
~Vanessa Hudgens

I had paralyzing fear as a kid. I couldn’t watch horror movies, nothing. The funny thing is I got so sick of being afraid that I started doing it deliberately and instead of being afraid in my bed I would sit up on my bed and say, ‘ok, come on, show yourself, do it.’
~Aleister Black

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Daredevil was known as ‘The Man Without Fear,’ and I just thought, ‘Well, I don’t think that’s very interesting.’ I don’t think it’s very interesting to watch someone who’s incapable of feeling fear. It also removes from the palate my favorite character attribute, which is courage. If you’re not afraid, you can’t exercise courage.
~Charlie Cox

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I don’t have much of an attention span for TV ‒ I nod off during the basketball playoffs ‒ but when I watch ‘Game of Thrones‘…, I’m glued to the set. It’s mystical and addictive.
~Steve Harvey

I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.
~David Zucker

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I’ll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I’ll just have to go over and watch.
~David Fincher

The only movie I can watch on a loop, over and over, is ‘Help‘, the Beatles movie. It’s so funny and irreverent and great.
~Emma Stone

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§ MUSIC:

The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don’t think it’s dead. I just think we’ve got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
~Garth Brooks

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Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they’ll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better.
~Billy Sheehan

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My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn’t do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.
~Vanessa Carlton

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It’s entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because… he has no idea.
~Dr Dre

‘Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!
~Dave Grohl

I don’t watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.
~Chino Moreno (Deftones)

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I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that is right in from of him. I thought it would be interesting if you could watch yourself from a distance.
~Matthew Shultz

When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am – the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It’s almost like I leave my body and get to watch.
~Michelle Branch

For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.
~Frank Sinatra

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The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
~Peter Weir

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
~Jean-Claude Killy

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
~Michael Jackson

I’ve never wanted to be like anybody. That’s something that my dad taught me growing up: ‘Never want to be like someone; be the next you.’ But I am a fan of the game, I’m a fan of the position, and I watch everyone.
~Saquon Barkley

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When I was 16 I’d watch ‘The Godfather,’ but I didn’t think, ‘Right, I’m going to go down the barber’s and get some protection money off him.’
~Noel Gallagher

If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you’re talking about.
~Jeff Goldblum

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I don’t like watching people work if they’re making art.
~David Duchovny

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
~Rhys Ifans

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People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven’t changed since time began. We’re still the same. We’ve obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch ‘Top Chef’, ‘Project Runway’, and ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.’
~Colin Hay

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I’m into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I’d love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.
~Jesse McCartney

People come up to me all the time and say, ‘Oh, I love to watch Food Network,’ and I ask them what they cook, and they say, ‘I don’t really cook.’ They’re afraid, they’re intimidated, they know all about food from eating out and watching TV, but they don’t know where to start in their own kitchen.
~Michael Symon

Do not allow watching food to replace making food.
~Alton Brown

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A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
~James Beard

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
~Pat Buchanan

I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.
~Laura Esquivel

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I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don’t watch what I eat. It’s not like you have Christmas every day!
~Adriana Lima

I never feel awkward, ever, when I’m eating! If someone doesn’t want to watch me eat? Dude, they can leave ‒ I gotta get my fuel. My justification is, would you rather me end my stream and come back two hours later cause I went out to eat, or just eat real quick in between a match?
~Ninja

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I do have 14 tattoos, but I also do come home every single night and watch reality TV with my cat.
~Lea Michele

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever ‒ wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.
~Taylor Swift

Just watching my cats can make me happy.
~Paula Cole

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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
~Jonathan Safran Foer

I mostly travel on weekends, so weekdays end up being my break days. At home, I’m super lazy. I eat, sleep, watch a movie and chill with my dog, Frodo.
~Neeti Mohan

Ever since ‘Lassie’ and ‘Old Yeller’, I won’t watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.
~George A Romero

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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.
~Sarah Kay

The sea was our main entertainment. When company came, we set them before it on rugs, with thermoses and sandwiches and colored umbrellas, as if the water ‒ blue, green, gray, navy or silver as it might be ‒ were enough to watch.
Sylvia Plath

I go to somewhere I haven’t been and just watch people and colors. That’s my inspiration.
~RM

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
~David Letterman

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There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don’t want to work.
~Bill Sienkiewicz

All I do is sit at home and watch Netflix.
~Kyrie Irving

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.
~Jackie Robinson

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
~Erma Bombeck

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.
~Virat Kohli

I’m not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
~Sally Rand

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It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.
~Erno Rubik

If you’re not in the parade, you watch the parade. That’s life.
~Mike Ditka

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I have watched avidly, listened with intense curiosity, but… you, too?
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

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~Music Travel Love (3:31) sweet rendition, swooping vistas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BFBALpOOgc

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~Playing With Change: (5:35) from across the wide world, for their lost, forever loved ones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJsWWTpagUQ

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~Postmodern Jukebox: ft Rogelio Douglas, Jr (3:36) serves up some joy for the journey, reprised
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EbLlgKFk9c

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~Wintergatan: Wintergatan (4:32) music to watch happen

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~PianoGesang: Jean Louisa Kelly • Someone To Watch Over Me (3:25) Richard Dreyfus conducting

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~folkarchivist: Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Linda Ronstadt • Gold Watcha and Chain (3:20) archive quality

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~M van Drunen: Anita Baker • Watch Your Step (8:08) a warning

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~SilentoVEVO: Silento • Watch Me • Whip/Nae Nae (3:22) doin’ the dances, fun

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~Keane: Watch How You Go (4:00) a farewell song

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~1640: Devo: Watch us work it (2:14) Devo, not Devo

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~Mississippi Queen & TI: Watch Dog • Etta James cover ft Noa Voll Damn (3:41) local talent bringin’ it

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~Rodney Atkins: Watching You (4:10) family, country style

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The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
~Radhanath Swami

I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment ‒ if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes ‒ everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.
~Hozier

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.
~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day ‒ and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.
~Brian Clough (45 years)

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it’s just a number.
~Jamie Lee Curtis

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Women didn’t want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands’ diverted attention.
~Jessica Savitch

When they watch a movie and they know that you’re in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.
~Charlize Theron

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I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!
~Dreama Walker

If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.
~Adam Grant

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I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan and I’m embarrassed to say it now but I used to make fun of him for watching it.
~Torrie Wilson

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.
~Corey Hart

I don’t want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.
~Elizabeth Hurley

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Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it’s not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.
~Lauryn Hill

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?
~Adriana Lima

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
~J K Rowling

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it
~Roald Dahl

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At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It’s the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching ‘The Soup’ or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty’s. And we always have some kind of great dinner – my wife makes a great roast beef.
~Eric McCormack

I watch my wife knitting, and it’s like watching close-up magic to me.
~Michael McKean

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If you believe in romance, and if you believe in marriage, you also have to believe in divorce. It’s like, with ‘Getting On,’ a lot of people say, ‘I don’t want to watch that. It’s so dark.’ But you can’t just want to go to weddings and children’s birthday parties. You’ve got to witness it all.
~Alex Borstein

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
~William Shakespeare

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To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.
~Matthew McConaughey

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
~Anne Sullivan

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I’m always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.
~Jeanne Moreau

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And I don’t believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.
~Michael Haneke

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.
~Brene Brown

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Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch ‘American Idol’ and video their children’s concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.
~Jodi Picoult

My brother is gay ‒ he’s a couple of years older than me, and I could not be more proud of him. It was right for him. If a player was going through something similar at a younger age, I feel I would be understanding because I was there to watch it with my brother.
~Craig Bellamy

A lady passed me a note in Australia one time that said, ‘My daughter gets bullied at school because she has two moms, and you know, we told her just to tell them to watch ‘Modern Family.’
~Eric Stonestreet

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It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the ‘good old days’ when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.
~Sherry Turkle

You can’t tell your kids to read if you’re just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it’s important to walk the walk. It’s a wonderful shared time.
~Gary Ross

Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.
~David Whyte

It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
~Joyce Maynard

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn’t. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people’s needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
~Dee Dee Myers

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We’re all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn’t let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or just garbage. My dad wouldn’t let us watch ‘The Flintstones’ if he was home, because he said it was a rip-off of ‘The Honeymooners‘. But he would let us stay up really late in the summer and watch old ‘Honeymooners‘.
~Tina Fey

But as a kid, I loved ‘Monty Python.’ My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!
~Wes Bentley

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My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we’d lie in the same bed, and I’d read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
~Sherman Alexie

Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that’s not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.
~Jennie Garth

I wasn’t sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions.
~Shannon Elizabeth

On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can’t watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn’t make any sense, does it?
~Sharon Tate

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I’m a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!
~Martha Quinn

Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?
~Patch Adams

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That’s my parenting style ‒ ‘Go watch the TV.’ I’m one of 11 children, and my mother’s parenting style was, ‘There’s the TV. Go watch it. Mommy’s got 10 other people to take care of.’
~Stephen Colbert

My mom was a big ‘Smurfs’ fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, ‘Hurray, cartoons!’ and she would say, ‘Smurfs! That’s what you’re watching.’
~Jayma Mays

My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always ‘Out of the house!’ There was no watching television on weekends.
~Anna Torv

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When I’m in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.
~Joe Scarborough

I grew up in Chicago, so I’ve always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we’d watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters – they were the biggest things I’ve ever seen!
~Kyle Chandler

I don’t watch ESPN, don’t listen to the radio. I just go home and deal with my family.
~Kawhi Leonard “

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I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.
~Sachin Tendulkar

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
~Roy L Smith

My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
~Clarence Budington Kelland

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When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.
~Tony Parsons

Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.
~Cindy Crawford

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
~Jim Bishop

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
~Olin Miller

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People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don’t get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don’t start a family before you’re ready to settle down.
~James Taylor

Some men like a dull life – they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it – it’s often catching.
~Hedy Lamarr

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What does good in bed mean to me? When I’m sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup – that’s good in bed.
~Brooke Shields

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‘CSI’ and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ episodes with pints of ice cream.
~Taylor Swift

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn’t around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation – of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn’t like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.
~Mark Strong (actor)

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As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, ‘That’s where all the crazy people go.’ It really sort of frightened me.
~Jamie Foxx

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.
~Jamie Lee Curtis

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It’s about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
~Ron Taffel

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I was a street kid, but that meant hopping a ride on the back of the MTA down to Revere Beach ‒ that’s the beach that’s made out of concrete ‒ or sneaking into the Boston Garden to watch the Celtics or the Bruins.
~Howie Long

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Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you’re hopefully gaining wisdom and you’re starting to watch things with a better overview.
~Sheryl Crow

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How lovely are the portals of the night,
when stars come out to watch the daylight die.
~Thomas Cole

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.
~Jeff Bezos

By about age 12, I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep. I started learning. I started going to the library and reading. But it was initially just watching the stars from my bedroom that I really did. There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.
~Vera Rubin

For my confirmation, I didn’t get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
~Wernher von Braun

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When I watch kids play basketball, they don’t know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don’t know why.
~Lisa Leslie

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When I went off to college in 1997, I didn’t go back and watch ‘Conan.’ I was out partying and dating women.
~Jason Momoa

All my friends were in college when I was making ‘Superbad.’ We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn’t like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can’t live like a kid forever, you know?
~Jonah Hill

This generation… they have a different attitude. Instead of sitting and watching something, they want to be a part of it – they’re very hedonistic and sensual.
~Steve Wynn

I think that’s good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that’s a part of growing up.
~Sean Combs

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
~Andrew Carnegie

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Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.
~Bill Copeland

Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.
~Dan Rather

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I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.
~William Banting

When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It’s better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.
~Donald Hall

It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.
~John Sexton

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You watch yourself age and it’s hard to feel like a sex symbol.
~Idris Elba

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
~Angela Carter

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I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
~Anne Bronte

If you’re going to make a film about rage in 2018, 2017… If you’re going to make a film about revenge and anger, I feel like that has to be a film about women. I don’t really want to watch a film about angry men. I’ve seen way too many of those.
~Hari Nef

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women – that somewhere along the line they’ll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
~Salma Hayek

Women watch and say, ‘I like watching you control your own space. It’s motivated me to do better, to go back to college, to even try law school. My daughter’s been watching you since she’s 10 ‒ I love the fact that she’s watching a strong woman who’s in control.’ All of those things are good, positive things.
~Judy Sheindlin (Judge Judy)

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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
~Jackie Kennedy

But to the slave mother New Year’s day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
~Harriet Ann Jacobs

My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that’s not realistic.
~Sarah Jessica Parker

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.
~Madeleine Albright

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters ‒ two beautiful, intelligent black young women ‒ playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.
~Michelle Obama

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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
~Alan King

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Comedy’s so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn’t get it, doesn’t find it funny, then fine.
~Johnny Vegas

We don’t apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don’t get it, then don’t watch us.
~Joan Rivers

I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
~Rachel Dratch

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I can’t watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That’s my job.
~Jenny Eclair

It’s painful for me to watch someone who isn’t funny. It’s horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.
~Joe Rogan

But if you don’t watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.
~Marion Ross

I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.
~David Duchovny

I always like to watch comics and it’s interesting that you can tell if someone’s funny in 10 seconds.
~Christopher Walken

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I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I’m watching the highlights.
~Jay London

Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?
~Al Boliska

I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don’t know I’m only using blanks.
~Emo Philips

I’m so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.
~Tom Waits

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it’s the government.
~Woody Allen

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
~Bud Abbott

He’s so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
~Edwin Edwards

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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
~William Shakespeare

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I went to watch Pavarotti once. He doesn’t like it when you join in.
~Mick Miller

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
~Lily Tomlin

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Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.
~Groucho Marx

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Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I feel like I don’t watch that many shows with death.
~Lena Dunham

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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
~Miguel de Cervantes

I’m very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.
~Dolly Parton

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth – something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food – just watch it, don’t eat it.
~Edward Koch

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The toughest opponent is me. A lot of times, you don’t want to train. You don’t want to box. Sometimes, life hits you to the point where you don’t even want to live. You have to fight with that person. You have to make yourself wake up in the morning. You have to make yourself watch your weight. That’s how I fight with that person.
~Aleksandr Usyk

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I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I’m not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.
~Lexa Doig

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.
~Christopher Hitchens

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Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
~Hippocrates

I watch people around me not drinking any water all day, and I turn into the water police. I’m constantly asking, ‘Are you drinking water?’
~Jessica Parker Kennedy

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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
~Albert Camus

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
~Nicolas Chamfort

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
~Jim Rohn

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I’ve always said it’s interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.
~Norman Reedus

I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It’s when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs.
~John Irving

I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.
~George Clooney

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The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment.
~Theodore Harold White

No one is going to look at the good things you do. Everybody is going to watch the bad things and that is how it is.
~Virgil van Dijk

I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they’re making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.
~Jason Katims

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Watch out when you’re getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain’t in luck.
~Joel Chandler Harris

I don’t watch the news too much, and I don’t look too deep into bad news about artists.
~Masego

It’s frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
~Andy Goldsworthy

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The super-rich watch each other like envious owls, to see who’s got a slightly better loafer, a pullover made from some even more absurdly endangered fur. They will go to any lengths to find the best tailors.
~A A Gill

As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.
~Thomas Frank

I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I’ve always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.
~Justin Townes Earle

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There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
~Helen Rowland

I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives they’re the ones you have to watch out for.
~Haruki Murakami

Life is like a dice, so watch the ones you’re rolling with.
~Lecrae

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I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.
~Alanis Morissette

When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.
~Jennifer Aniston

Back in the Rat Pack days, we’d take Frank’s plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We’d watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn’t ask for a better thing.
~James Darren

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My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.
~Dominic Chianese

I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.
~Yaya DaCosta

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

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@Writers Platform

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.
~Haruki Murakami

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When James Bond presses the watch and the car explodes, the writer doesn’t go into the science of it. One should leave it to the leap of faith. I have tried to explain as much as possible, and what I can’t, I have left it to people’s imagination.
~Ravi Subramanian

You still stand watch,
O human star,
burning without a flicker,
perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit.
Each of your rays a great idea ‒
O torch which passes from hand to hand,
from age to age,
world without end.
~Karel Capek

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Every time we watch a little story play out inside our head, we’re fantasizing, whether we realize it or not, and it seems to me that, though succumbing to fantasies about other people can be dangerous or self-defeating, the act of fantasizing itself is also an essential part of being human, of being capable of both abstraction and empathy.
~Kim Brooks

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’
~Bill Bradley

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.
~Guy Davenport

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So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.
~Tracy K Smith

I’m drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it’s the story that’s going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy.
~Ryan Kwanten

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Poems are not read: they are reread. Reread the poem, then read between the lines, then look at it, then watch it, then peek at it: handle it like an object. Contemplate its shadows, angles and dimensions.
~Terrance Hayes

*IT Everything I do, I do it with the hope that people will watch it more than twice. Whether it’s ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ or ‘Pacific Rim’ or the opening of ‘The Simpsons,’ I do it with that hope.
~Guillermo del Toro

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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
~Samuel Johnson

A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.
~Derek Walcott

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I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
~Andy Warhol

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you’ve seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.
~Lionel Richie

Inspiration comes from not only within ourselves, but also from watching life around us.
~Anthony T Hincks

It’s not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers – we’re much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.
~Neil Gaiman

I don’t really talk that much. I just watch and observe.
~YoungBoy Never Broke Again

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I’m never bored, never ever bored. If I’ve got a day off I’ll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I’m a great observer.
~David Suchet

I’m obsessed with people, I’m obsessed with human behavior. I just watch people.
~Zoya Akhtar

I’m happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It’s my favorite thing to do, for sure.
~Zoe Kravitz

Walking around sometimes, I would love to just be able to watch people, see how they act. Sometimes I would love to be invisible.
~Derek Jeter

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
~Barack Obama

I don’t want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.
~Sophia Myles

I like to walk. I like to read. I like to watch people.
~Bruno Ganz

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The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote.
~Peter L Bergen

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A watch can only tell us how much time it is, how much time has passed, or how much time must still pass before something will occur. These statements are related not to time itself but only to its measurement or calculation.
~Medard Boss

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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
~Richard Bach

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Everything happens kind of the way it’s supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can’t control it. Looking back, you can’t say, ‘I should’ve… ‘ You didn’t, and had you, the outcome would have been different.
~Rick Rubin

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You can never go wrong with a pair of jeans, a cool tailored shirt, and a nice jacket. You can dress it up with a more stylish jacket or a bracelet, watch, or necklace. It’s simple, but it’s cool. That’s my opinion.
~Julian Edelman

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I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it’s great to be a part of and watch.
~Chris Hemsworth

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Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.
~George A Moore

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Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
~Daniel Kahneman

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When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
~Bill Copeland

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All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs [#109] in particular. At about ten o’clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.
~John Hersey

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I love to watch times change!
~Karl Lagerfeld

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I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
~Hedy Lamarr

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If you don’t take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You’re doing too much, you’re being too much in charge. You’ve got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you’re not doing anything.
~Eugene H Peterson

Being raised Muslim, we had to get up at the crack of dawn to pray. There was no sleeping in, no getting up Saturday morning to watch cartoons because there was no TV in the house. But you got up and you worked, cleaned the house.
~Malik Yoba

It’s the most exciting thing to watch God work when I’ve asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It’s like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.
~Charles R Swindoll

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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
~Alexander Pope

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.
~Guy Finley

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
~Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.
~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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In India, there’s a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It’s called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
~Ram Dass

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.
~Dan Quayle

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
~Chuck Palahniuk

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
~Richard P Feynman

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The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
~George Whitefield

Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.
~Ellen G White

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
~Rabindranath Tagore

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Growing up I didn’t watch movies.
~Denzel Washington (aspired to be a preacher)

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren’t allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn’t really know anything different. That’s how I was raised.
~Katy Perry

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If you watch what people watch and read what people read, you are on the way to get the same results.
~Deyth Banger

America’s future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
~Jane Addams

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I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don’t know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.
~Jenny McCarthy

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I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes, or drive me to my mother’s, so I’d be with my grandfather a lot. I used to watch him write his sermons.
~Chris Rock

My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I’m very ‘preacher-ish’ on stage, not by intent but because that’s where I learned to talk in front of people.
~Ron White

Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his ‘being different’ gets in the way.
~Henri Nouwen

I’m here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.
~Charles R Swindoll

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I was told by so many people that I wouldn’t succeed because I was too different. Ironically, the very reason that people watch my channel and travel thousands of miles to see a show… is because it’s different. God didn’t send us to Earth to just blend in. We are here to share what makes us unique.
~Lindsey Stirling

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We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.
~Richard P Feynman

We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works.
~Ernest Rutherford

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Drones watch for disease and collect real-time data on crop health and yields.
~Peter Diamandis

I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don’t download movies, I don’t watch Hulu, I don’t have Netflix. I don’t do any of that. But I do geek out to music.
~Miles Teller

I’m always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.
~David Neeleman

Really, I like the future. I appreciate my automatic alarm-call necklace in case I get lost and confused in a mall. I appreciate the watch that tells the hospital my blood pressure’s gone ballistic. I like my computer, just as long as it doesn’t get ideas above its workstation.
~A A Gill

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The soles of Neil Armstrong’s boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent’s sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.
~Mitt Romney

I think we’re just scratching the surface. One of the most exciting aspects of 23andMe is that we’re enabling you to watch a revolution unfold live during your lifetime, and I think that the decoding of the genome, in my opinion, is the most fascinating discovery of our lifetime, and you get to be part of it.
~Anne Wojcicki

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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch ‒ we are going back from whence we came.
~John F Kennedy

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A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
~Gertrude Jekyll

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Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world’s most elegant phenomena.
~John Burnside

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Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It’s very easy to enjoy yourself.
~Tove Jansson

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there’s something good about feeling both.
~Amy Grant

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I bought a racehorse, Tropical Saint, that belonged to the Queen Mother. I used to go down to Banbury and watch him train, but during a televised race, his jockey pulled up and said there was something wrong. They put him in the grass to try and settle him but found him dead in the field.
~Rick Wakeman

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
~Roger Tory Peterson

Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals ‒ and the lesson is not a flattering one.
~Pamela Anderson

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It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.
~Lewis Thomas

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
~Lewis Thomas

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I remember I’d come home from fifth, sixth grade, and I’d watch ‘Saved by the Bell’ and be like, ‘I hope my high school experience is like that.’ And it totally wasn’t. It sucked.
~Cory Monteith

I wasn’t really into school that much. I was in this building having to cram knowledge I didn’t really care for. But on YouTube, I was able to create what I wanted and post it for people to watch.
~KSI

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I’m seeing how knowledge can elevate you.
~Mary J Blige

People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.
~Aisha Tyler

I went to the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and you’re not allowed to watch TV.
~Jennifer Aniston

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Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.
~Emily Blunt

I’ll watch any show on the History Channel.
~Rick Springfield

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
~Quentin Tarantino

Secretly, I’m a real big nerd. I’d rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.
~Sprague Grayden

I’ve got a stag weekend coming up and I’ve said I’m not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won’t have it. I’ll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.
~Martin Freeman (hobbit/sleuth sidekick)

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o’clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don’t know why there’s this big rush to do this.
~Jeff Foxworthy

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§ The Exercise:

disclaimer

i give you life said the sun
i give you home said the barn
but i the platform you watch from
that you capture in sequel on film

a voice from the nowhere and not-when
sourceless echo from the infinite there
remote as from the veriest background
murmured chime, almost rhyme, another realm

the secret out of nowhere is now here
not-when the prequel to now, then
all wrapped in thought and the be-here-now
amusingly subtle but useless, quoth time

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provisional

great debates
bait discourses
gated fences
gaited horses
not global warming
but climate changes

farms orchards ranches
nigh, by the river branches
blithely bask in paradise
no recourse no remorse
tardy start, tempting fate
boys with toys taking chances

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uncoupled couplets

idle as in idol
or idyll as in ideal

a riddle is to little
as joke to being broke

what counts in a country
the memory called history

fibs as fabulous lies told
bold truth as true gold

to acquit oneself proudly
not plead for acquittal

carnivorous corona virus
not the worst to get the best of us

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harvest #24

record the seasons
speed up the film rate
till the soil by this watch
’til the day and its stages
the reason for seasons
line up with a match

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5s ‘n 7s

ogling the plus-weight they hate
despise long waits, guilty late
canceled dates confounding fate
pawn gold watch the going rate
give up good things, no debate
comes the crunch the Great Estate
voice and vote counts don’t equate

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watch the deep red gush
life’s dark flower flowing out
cabernet, that is

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
~Agnes de Mille

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.
~Angelina Jolie

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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
~Nathan Meyer Rothschild

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
~Voltaire

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Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.
~Oprah Winfrey

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
~Louis V Gerstner, Jr

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I’m the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn’t stay there and watch it. I’d run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too.
~Paris Hilton

I don’t like new people coming around me. I’m going to really be leery and watch you and take my time before I embrace you.
~Prodigy

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Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them either. They keep you.
~Frank Crane

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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
~Paul McCartney

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day’s work an achievement for eternity.
~Helen Hayes

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One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.
~Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Filmmakers often tell me to watch the original version. I never do.
~Ali

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Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
~Satchel Paige

Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
~John Wesley

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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
~Anne Lammott

I love watching people’s dreams come true.
~Jessica Simpson

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The Olio: Quotes Harvest

https://bqotd.com, https://brainyquote.com, https://wisesayings.com

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Fun Tarts: https://gocomics.com, https://pexels.com

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The Salmagundi: Video Harvest

https://venmo.com, https://vevo.com, https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com

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THIS EDITION: clue

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Quoted In The Grove:
Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you’re defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the clues—boom! Sledgehammer.
~Gay Hendricks

When clues present themselves, it can sometimes feel like the delicate mechanism of a clock at work. As if the universe is nudging you with little reminders that it’s on your side… We can’t control clues, or will them to be revealed.
~Rick Rubin

We don’t have a clue what’s really going down, we just kid ourselves that we’re in control of our lives while a paper’s thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they’re tired, or bored.
~Neil Gaiman

EndQuote:
There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I’m talking about.
~Neel Burton

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Next Edition Prompt: watch

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Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.
~Nick Hornby

If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.
~H G Wells

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.
~Robert McCracken

All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a social box by someone else.
~J R Ward

There’s a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
~Maurice Sendak

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The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
~Terry Pratchett

Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences.
~Deepak Chopra

I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
~Ann Brashares

I do not believe in meaningless coincidences. I believe every coincidence is a message, a clue about a particular facet of our lives that requires our attention.
~Deepak Chopra

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I remember enjoying writing those, there’s two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.
~Max Lucado

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.
~Lionel Shriver

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There’s too many people in seats of power who just haven’t got a clue what they’re doing. They’re bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.
~Pierce Brosnan

I’ve had editors over the years who couldn’t find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
~Len Wein

You wouldn’t know a clue if it danced in front of you with a T-Shirt that read ‘I’m a clue’
~Eoin Colfer

The people who run record companies now wouldn’t know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven’t a clue, and they don’t care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?
~David Crosby

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…the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.
~Walker Percy

The human experience can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all decisions are of the past, all decisions are about the future. The image of the future, therefore, is the key to all choice-oriented behavior. The character and quality of the images of the future which prevail in a society is therefore the most important clue to its overall dynamics.
~Kenneth E Boulding

The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations.
~Daniel Dennett

I have no idea what’s next. I simply don’t have a clue.
~Lance Burton (magician)

I haven’t a clue what’s going to happen next, and I can’t wait to find out.
~Mandy Patinkin

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Posted From The Grove

Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.
~John Adams

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The most valuable information throughout human evolution has been faint sounds. We tend to think in our modern world that if it’s loud, if it grabs our attention, it’s important. We get a lot of that in advertising. But in nature, it’s the faintest sound that’s important; it has determined, in the past of our ancestors, perhaps, if they will live or die. Faint sounds are the earliest clues of newly arriving information.
~Gordon Hempton

Avoid the ‘squeaky wheel gets the grease’ habit of overreacting to the loudest feedback. The first time you hear a particular piece of feedback, treat it like a clue and do some investigating. Find out how deep it goes ‒ maybe it stops at the surface and won’t be an issue, maybe not.
~Neil Blumenthal

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Every time you shop online, every time you sign up for a newsletter, or register on a website, or enquire about a new car, or fill out a warranty card, or buy a new home, or register to vote ‒ you are unwittingly handing over a small clue as to who you are and how you behave.
~Hannah Fry

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Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you’re getting close to doing something important.
~Seth Godin

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
~Ram Dass

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People call me left of centre, they don’t even know why left is called left and why right is called right. They have no clue. These are just you know jargons ‒ created and marketed.
~Anubhav Sinha

Daydreaming,
You’re daydreaming,
You’re dreaming your life away
Although the headlines scream at you,
You don’t have a clue
~Kincaid Alan Smith

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I didn’t sleep the night I finished ‘Sister Hills.’ It was so unsettling. I felt really wild. I didn’t have a clue. It’s a very loaded subject, and I did not know what I had. I was interested in watching how choices unfold over time.
~Nathan Englander (Israeli/Palestinian neighbors)

In the West, they have no clue what Palestinian suffering is about, and the terrorist attacks give a wrong picture about the just Palestinian cause.
~Mosab Hassan Yousef

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Here, I think, is another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations ‒ projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves ‒ and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.
~Parker J Palmer

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There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.
~Jim Mattis

Because of a mass media more interested in gossip and sensationalism than real issues, I would say a vast majority of the American public doesn’t have a clue about how the Congress functions and what goes on.
~Bernie Sanders

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We all have this misunderstanding about heartbreak, which is we think we should avoid it. But what I think is that heartache is a clue toward the work we’re supposed to be doing in the world. What breaks each person’s heart is different ‒ be it racial injustice, war, or animals. And when you figure out what it is that breaks yours, go toward it.
~Glennon Doyle Melton

It’s always the small people who change things. It’s never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn’t have a clue the day before.
~Luc Besson

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Americans trash the planet not because we’re evil, but because the industrial systems we’ve devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works.
~Alex Steffen

The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven’t got a clue what lies ahead, they’re always searching into the past for some sort of pattern … to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian.
~Antony Beevor

The people who run the country have enormous influence over the culture, politics, and the economics of the country. And increasingly, they haven’t a clue about how most of America lives. They have never experienced it.
~Charles Murray

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When a man ends up in the White House who boasts about not having a clue and who says that specialist knowledge is elite nonsense, then a critical point has been reached. Then you will have an obviously irresponsible man sitting in a position that requires the utmost degree of responsibility.
~Martin Schulz

You’ve never heard me talk about politics all that much, and it’s just ‒ I can’t think of anybody more dangerous as president… I can’t think of anything worse than with him not having a clue. I mean, could you imagine somebody who doesn’t read and doesn’t learn trying to deal with the day-to-day changes and challenges of that job?
~Mark Cuban

If you think America is great, remember that every person telling you otherwise may carry a clue to making it greater.
~Anand Giridharadas

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The old men running the industry just have not got a clue. They’ve got to come to terms with the fact that Britain is no longer a totally white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish and chips; it’s curry.
~Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I’ve always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
~Anne Tyler

You cannot make an omelet without breaking some balls
~Margaret Thatcher

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My hunch, for what it’s worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really imagine what catastrophe is like. I have a hunch that we all labor under this rather convenient illusion that if we read about the Syrian refugee crisis, we can imagine what it feels like to set off from your home and your life with all your possessions in two bin liners. We all think that we can imagine that and my guess is that none of us have got a clue.
~Decca Aitkenhead

I know that nobody who hasn’t been in battle or under attack can know what war is. But even in terms of being safe at home, it’s also true that many Americans who think they know what being at war is, don’t… They don’t have a clue.
~Ursula K Le Guin

Humiliation, sexual harassment, fear and starvation was the order of the day until around 10 P. M. Interrogators made sure that I had no clue about the time, but nobody is perfect; their watches always revealed it.
~Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Guantanamo Bay)

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But in this country, while you have to be competent to pull off a terrorist attack, you don’t have to be competent to cause terror. All you need to do is start plotting an attack and ‒ regardless of whether or not you have a viable plan, weapons or even the faintest clue ‒ the media will aid you in terrorizing the entire population.
~Bruce Schneier

The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn’t have a clue than there were Republicans.
~James Carville

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.
~Aristotle

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We had no clue that Cuba was not Marco Rubio. You get there, and everyone is Afro Cuban. And you start to realize, ‘Where are the blonde, blue-eyed Cubans? Oh, they’re all in Miami.’
~Walshy Fire

Obviously, race is the elephant in the room, and we all understand that. Unless it is talked about constantly, it’s not going to get better… people have to be made to feel uncomfortable, and especially white people, because we’re comfortable. We still have no clue what being born white means.
~Stan Van Gundy

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As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.
~Natalie Cole

My hair journey involved a lot of trying to figure out how to deal with my hair as a bi-racial girl in a white community living in Long Island, N.Y., where no one had a clue what to do with it.
~Soledad O’Brien

I had been getting relaxers since I was eight or nine. I had no clue. It was a personal mission to really find out who am when I’m not altering myself to look like anybody else. Who am I when I wake up and I don’t do anything to my hair? Who is that woman? I want to meet her. And that was what catapulted my journey into going natural.
~Teyonah Parris

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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
~Marian Anderson

A movie like ‘Selma’ should be a relic in a time capsule from 1965, a clue to how well we heeded King’s words and how far we have advanced. Instead, it is a reminder that the ‘American problem’ has yet to be solved.
~Richard Corliss

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In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren’t absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.
~Victor Davis Hanson

History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
~Robin G Collingwood

The news of the days as it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
~Walter Lippmann

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What I meant when I say that the media are bots, I don’t want anybody misunderstand this. I’m watching CNN and one of their infobabes is doing this report on Al Franken questioning [Jeff] Sessions during the confirmation hearings. I’m convinced ‒ and they played an edited version of it. It was edited by somebody to make it look like it was something other than what it was, and I’m convinced this infobabe hasn’t the slightest clue.
~Rush Limbaugh

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Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
~Edmund Morgan

If the tribal peoples actually represented Western origins at a much earlier time, it was exceedingly valuable that they should be studied intensely for clues about the nature and origin of human society. Consequently it was an injury to science and human knowledge to allow the military to simply exterminate them.
~Vine Deloria Jr (American historian)

‘Flash mobs’ are reported on extensively because they’re novel and can be used to stoke fears of young people and the Internet. The media, of course, have absolutely no clue what they’re reporting on.
~Alex Pareene

In this plain and apparently simple essay [‘The Use of Knowledge in Society‘] was a deeply penetrating insight into the way societies function and malfunction, and clues as to why they are so often and so profoundly misunderstood.
~Thomas Sowell

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~Steven Wood: “Clue” kinetic typography (0:38) dialog delivered in a new way

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~Nathaniel Hartwig: Missing Clue (0:30) claymation indulgence

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~Teri Gerbec: Clue (0:30) commercial for the game, with a smile

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~Total Refusal: Hardly Working (20:34) 3D world, bit players, existential grind

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The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth.
~Adrian Slywotzky

My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what they’re doing. Therefore you better be trying stuff at an insanely rapid pace. You want to be screwing around with nearly everything. Relentless experimentation was probably important in the 1970s‒now it’s do or die.
~Tom Peters

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Money … is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.
~Agatha Christie

Let me give you a ‘tip’ on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
~Ayn Rand

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If you don’t have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you’re going, and you’re going to work very hard to go nowhere.
~J J Watt

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Now suppose that the clue experiences that can correct the illusion become for some reason increasingly scarce – perhaps because the dominant story itself brings about their elimination! Then the illusion might go on for a very long time, might have to result in real catastrophe, before anyone realizes anything is wrong.
~Val Plumwood

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Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, you’ll reap the same rewards.
~Brad Thor

Happy, vibrant, successful people think and behave in certain ways. So do miserable and unfulfilled people. In other words, there are patterns of success and patterns of failure. The good news is, success leaves clues.
~Tony Robbins

Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results. I believed that if I precisely duplicated the actions of others, I could reproduce the same quality of results that they had.
~Tony Robbins

Success leaves clues. Go figure out what someone who was successful did, and model it. Improve it, but learn their steps. They have knowledge.
~Tony Robbins

Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers.
~Tony Robbins

Success leaves clues, but they must be acted upon.
~Tony Robbins

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If you want to know for sure that you are on the right path, here’s your clue: You’re not put in a position where you feel like you have to negotiate your sense of integrity, which is an act of betrayal. You don’t feel like you have to compromise who you are.
~Caroline Myss

When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, ‘Do you know how to tell if you’re doing the job?’ As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clues: ‘If you’re up at 3 A.M. every night talking into a tape recorder and writing notes on scraps of paper, have a knot in your stomach and a rash on your skin, are losing sleep and losing touch with your wife and kids, have no appetite or sense of humor, and feel that everything might turn out wrong, then you’re probably doing the job.’
~Bill Walsh

When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o’clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together.
~Isabel Gillies

Ask yourself what you would do even if you were never paid. That’s a clue to what you should be doing and of course finding a way to be paid for it.
~Joe Vitale

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Sometimes I implant thoughts, sometimes I extract thoughts, but I don’t like to explain it too much. It’s based on science, deduction, and reasoning ‒ it’s a bit like what ‘Sherlock’ does, except that’s a dramatised version. I look at every clue around me.
~Keith Barry (Consumer Reports)

Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.
~Bill Courtney

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I’ve learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through.
~Jerry Uelsmann

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What to do when the market goes down? Read the opinions of the investment gurus who are quoted in the WSJ. And, as you read, laugh. We all know that the pundits can’t predict short-term market movements. Yet there they are, desperately trying to sound intelligent when they really haven’t got a clue.
~Jonathan Clements

At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven’t got a clue.
~Jeremy Grantham

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The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.
~Mohnish Pabrai

You won’t find a CEO who doesn’t talk about a ‘powerful culture’ as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you’d be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.
~Marcus Buckingham

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I had no clue about taxes at all. I didn’t know they hit your paycheck. There’s something that you’ve always got to put money away for. I didn’t know you’ve got to put money away for it, even though it’s coming out your own money. It’s like, ‘What the heck?’
~Zach LaVine

Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me.
~Simon Sinek

Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell the real story behind civilized life. How people were taxed, who was taxed, and what was taxed tell more about a society than anything else. Tax habits could be to civilization what sex habits are to personality. They are basic clues to the way a society behaves.
~Charles Adams

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.
~Sara Sheridan

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Personalization wasn’t supposed to be a cleverly veiled way to chase prospects around the web, showing them the same spammy ad for the same lame stuff as everyone else sees. No, it is a chance to differentiate at a human scale, to use behavior as the most important clue about what people want and more important, what they need.
~Seth Godin

Because we’re always more woundable when caught at exactly the time where we’re in the mood for that particular product or service – and as Big Data increasingly are able to pick up on clues revealing desire – automated systems are increasingly able to hit at exactly those moments, across those channels we move – with an offer matching exactly what we’re desiring.
~Martin Lindstrom

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Here is an old Oriental proverb: A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. It is difficult to anticipate just how a situation will develop in every detail until you take a step forward and try out your present equipment. Then, if weaknesses appear, you will have clues as to how to strengthen your resources. No scheme or plan is perfect. Perfection is a process, not an end.
~Napoleon Hill

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Even on the witness stand at trial, there were people up there and I had no clue who they were. I had never seen them a day in my life and they were pointing the finger at me saying that I was their boss.
~Isaac Wright Jr

He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.
~Richard Hamming

Occasionally I get fed up, going to visit a factory, when I am being shown around by the chairman, who clearly hasn’t got a clue, and I try to get hold of the factory manager, but I can’t because the chairman wants to make sure he’s the one in all the photographs.
~Prince Philip

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I knew I was going to be a pro golfer from the age of 12, when I qualified for the Carris Trophy, which is for under-18s. That was when I thought I was OK at golf. I had no clue about how difficult the game actually is at that age of course ‒ I was blissfully unaware of all the hard work ahead.
~Justin Rose

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In the NBA, there’s always a guy who is only around because he can jump. He doesn’t have a clue about the fundamentals. I learn more from the WNBA. They know how to dribble, how to pivot, how to use the shot fake.
~Draymond Green

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I was as staunch a Rangers supporter as any wee boy could be without being bigoted. We did a lot of stupid things. We sang the songs, but with no real feeling, and didn’t have a clue what we were singing about.
~Ally McCoist

When I got the call of being drafted by the Devils, I was in shock more than anything. I didn’t have a clue where New Jersey was, but it was just nice to be taken in the first round and nice to know where my future would be, which organization I was going to be a part of.
~Martin Brodeur

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I could only be frustrated right from the day I started in WCW and realized that it was a company run by a bunch of idiots that didn’t have a clue what they were doing.
~Bret Hart (pro wrestler)

Fighting in general, but especially when I was younger, was tough to deal with because there are so many external things going on that want to control you that most people have no clue about.
~Eddie Alvarez (MMA)

Let’s be honest here ‒ 99 percent of MMA fans haven’t got a clue what’s going on. They don’t understand the game enough to comment on any of that. They don’t know how easy it is to have an impressive record. I could have 10 guys in my gym tomorrow, beat them all up, and there’s 10 wins for my record. It is that easy. It is that easy to be 10-0.
~Artem Lobov

You pay your dues and work your way up through the system, whatever system there is ‒ something guys in the business today don’t really understand, don’t have a clue.
~Dusty Rhodes (WWE)

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I hadn’t a clue who I was racing against. All I knew was how I was going to race.
~Herb Elliott (distance runner)

I don’t have a clue. These things don’t bother me. I think about the technical stuff but not how many steps or what my heart rate is.
~Usain Bolt

I told my coach, ‘I’m going to fight one day for the UFC world championship.’ And he laughed, ‘That’s not even possible. How are you going to do that?’ ‘I have no clue, but I’m going to make it happen.’
~Raquel Pennington (UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion)

Really good mountain bikers are lousy judges of trail difficulty. We haven’t a clue, we just ride.
~John Olsen

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§ VIDEO:
In my mind it’s so much fun to have something that has clues and is mysterious ‒ something that is understood intuitively rather than just being spoon-fed to you. That’s the beauty of cinema, and it’s hardly ever even tried. These days, most films are pretty easily understood, and so people’s minds stop working.
~David Lynch

I was thinking about time, how on a movie set the shot is maintained in the same time no matter how many takes and hours pass. Reflectors and lights are added, footprints are smoothed away, so that there are no telltale clues as the day wears on. When the shot is finished and the plugs are pulled, time seems to leap forward in a matter of seconds. Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.
~Eleanor Coppola

What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I’ve worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I’ve worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn’t hire them to paint your apartment. And then there’s everything in-between. There’s no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.
~Tony Gilroy

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There are clues in the script… he will say “I think drugs are immoral”‘… but the guy who says that kills, tortures, pimps and has whores working for him. There is this strange morality going on, which is rather like the Mafia.
~David Suchet

I don’t like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters’ actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what any of them are thinking.] Which is much more of a cinematic technique. Something written in third person objective is what the camera sees. Because unless you’re doing a voiceover, which is tremendously clumsy, you can’t hear the ideas of characters. For that, we depend on subtle clues that the directors put in and that the actors supply. I can actually write, “‘Yes you can trust me,’ he lied.” [But it’s better to get inside the characters’ heads.]
~George R R Martin

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It’s pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think.
~Dennis Green

What it is essentially for me is that if you go back and watch the film a second time, do you feel that you’ve been played fair with? Are all the clues in place? Indeed, sometimes these things are even overstated. Specifically, for that reason.
~Christopher Nolan

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When you’re working on a play like ‘Sloane,’ that play works; you don’t have to worry about that. When you’re working on a new play like ‘Little Dog,’ you have no clue if the play works. You’re exploring.
~Scott Ellis

Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you’d call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don’t know what my future is. I don’t have a clue what I’m going to be able to do in the world of cinema.
~David Lynch

My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no clue whatsoever how things are going to turn out.
~Sarah Shahi

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I couldn’t wait to leave school. So I did it as soon as I possibly could at 16. I had no clue what I wanted to do next other than being at school wasn’t it and that I was desperate to make my own way as soon as I could.
~Jameela Jamil

I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
~Haley Lu Richardson

I was in college that first semester, and I was like, ‘Wow, this isn’t who I am. This isn’t what I want to do.’ I was like, ‘Oh God, I’m going to have to go out and make something of myself, and I have no clue what that is.’
~Channing Tatum

I’ve had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll at FAO Schwartz when I was in high school. And I think that it’s made me really disciplined when it came to pursuing acting, because I had no clue how to go about it.
~Cara Buono

I had no clue of Hollywood until I became a teenager. Then I got a fake ID in Tijuana and discovered Shelly’s Manne-Hole, on Cahuenga and Selma, where I saw John Coltrane and his piano player, McCoy Tyner, and Elvin Jones, the drummer – my idol.
~John Densmore (the Doors)

Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don’t have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.
~Dhanush

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I have a very good memory for scripts. I can watch a show I like once, then remember about 90% of the script. But ask me who was in it, and I wouldn’t have a clue.
~Marcus Brigstocke

If I wasn’t acting, I have no clue what I’d be doing ’cause I have no other talent.
~Morgan Freeman

I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.
~Chris Messina

It’s the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone’s essence or persona and it’s our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.
~Kevin Spacey

The fact is, as actors everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as wide a range of human behavior with some sense of understanding of that behavior or some clue to it.
~Grace Zabriskie

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I come from a theater background, so I always like to dissect the scene and try to get some hint about what the author was trying to get at. I still look up the meaning of the name of the character to see if there are any clues in that.
~Adina Porter

It’s always so much fun to create backstory. Even if there are more clues in the script, you still always have to invent a lot for yourself. I think that comes naturally.
~Jane Levy

As an actress, I’m supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.
~Ludivine Sagnier

It’s the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone’s essence or persona and it’s our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.
~Kevin Spacey

I’m not going back to acting class, although I’ve thought of it. The classic training that people get usually when they start out, I never had, and I always felt and still feel the lack of it, so there’s a lot of basic stuff that I just don’t have a clue about.
~Margot Kidder

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I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
~J R R Tolkien

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My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.
~Michael Caine

A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number of actors who had played Richard III in the past. And I was hoping of course, that one of them or all of them were gonna give me the magic key, the secret way in to play Richard III but none of them did that. But every one of them did say the following, “Be careful.”
~Kevin Spacey

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On my first TV job I didn’t have a clue. They’d tell me to hit my mark and I had no idea what they meant. You just pick it up. And ultimately, all it’s really about is pretending to be someone else.
~Sheridan Smith

When I started working, I didn’t have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.
~James Garner

I hate having to pose for photos. It’s just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you’re an actor, but I haven’t a clue.
~Claire Foy

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I booked ‘Transformers‘ having no clue what I was doing. And then, all of a sudden, it was like: ‘You’ve got to get your game together fast.’ It sucks, but I’m trying.
~Megan Fox

They didn’t train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really.
~Michelle Rodriguez

The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they’re getting this kind of money is because the studios don’t know what else to do. They don’t have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.
~Peter Bogdanovich

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The fact that we all leave behind seemingly insignificant clues behind ourselves ‒ emotional DNA or what I call Small Data – which are able to describe with an insane accuracy who we really are, our personalities and desires… These imbalances are surprisingly visible when visiting consumers’ homes – and surprisingly invisible when relaying on Big Data.
~Martin Lindstrom

When you’re not doing fiction, there’s a limit to how much illustrating you can do with your work. I mean, you can do fine. There are great non-fiction writers, but people aren’t necessarily going to say anything that reveals them as much as a picture might. Even their surroundings, in lot of cases, the things that meant the most to me were the things I noticed in their houses. I was always looking, as much as I was listening to them. I was looking around for clues as to why I was there.
~Miranda July

I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.
~Benedict Cumberbatch

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All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don’t know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.
~Kate Mara

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I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved ‘Clue‘ when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie ‘Legend,’ and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, ‘It’s the same guy!’ It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.
~Oscar Isaac

I’ll run into somebody, and of all the movies I’ve done, they may say something about ‘Back to the Future‘ or whatever, but then they make reference to ‘Clue‘ very favorably.
~Christopher Lloyd

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Black People can be really famous in Wales for rugby, but outside of Wales nobody really has a clue who you are or what you’ve done.
~Gareth Thomas

In America, if you say ‘Chris de Burgh,’ they won’t have a clue, but they all know ‘Lady in Red.’
~Chris de Burgh

The Brits know how crazy Adele is. Americans have no clue about Adele and how crazy she is!
~Michelle Visage

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Many times, I would be on live television and have no idea what the next match is, and I’d have no clue who was coming out next. The last person to know is always the announcer, and it’s always your fault if you make a mistake ‒ even if you didn’t know. I was always on top of everything and never said the wrong name or the wrong town.
~Brandi Rhodes (presenter)

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I don’t have a clue why I’m famous, either. But I didn’t make myself famous. I’m not doing it; you are doing it.
~Nicole Richie

When you’re a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don’t have a clue.
~Willie Aames

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I sleep with a light on in the bathroom so I can see where I’m at, because I wake up and have no clue!
~Carrie Underwood

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~KKApple: The Launch (9:16) genius, meet gender genius

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~Omeleto: Everybody Dies Sometimes (9:00) …the last three words

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~Omeleto: The Forfeit (14:06) family and Baldaccini, a game of clues much like Charades

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~Omeleto: Crossword (13:09) convergence of clues and coincidence

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~Barman Ave: Not a Clue (3:18) strange

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~I’ve Got Munchies: Clue (4:11) amusing time sink

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~NITVShorts: Crossword (13:09) romance without cross words

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The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanisms in his mInd that create objects out of images(symbols)… The artist, like the eye, must provide true images and the clues of distance to tell his magic lies.
~Colin Blakemore

The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that art and nature are mind’s Environment within which we can detect the essence of man’s Being and Purpose, and from which we can draw clues to guide our journey from partial consciousness to full consciousness.
~Morris Graves

Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully… art becomes our entrée to the sublime.
~Michael Kimmelman

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In New York, you couldn’t wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don’t have a clue.
~Bryan Ferry

There’s no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast ‒ L.A. particularly ‒ and the East Coast have no clue at all about what’s happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.
~Andy Williams

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There’s just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what’s really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what’s really going on.
~David Bowie

I’ve always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don’t have a clue.
~Damian Loeb

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There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be.
~Paul Klee

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I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes.
~Bill Jay

When you take a picture you haven’t a clue that it is going to be what it is. Maybe you have a clue but you don’t really know. There are too many possibilities. Part of the game is how many balls you can juggle. It is to me. When you are 12 you can juggle two. Maybe when you are 50 you can juggle five. That is an interesting concept to me: how much I can put in and still make it pull together?
~Lee Friedlander

My photographs don’t go below the surface. They don’t go below anything. They’re readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I’ve lost what’s really there been seduced by someone else’s standard of beauty or by the sitter’s own idea of the best in him. That’s not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.
~Richard Avedon

I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don’t know that I’d make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I’m a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven’t a clue what else to do.
~Eugene Richards

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The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.
~D H Lawrence

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You’d think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.
~Rick Riordan

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.
~Leo Tolstoy

Laughter isn’t even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don’t you think?
~Alice Walker

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I always loved to dance, but I never had a clue what I was doing.
~Dick Van Dyke

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Our job is to get out of the way of ourselves and let the art flow through us. We need to stop trying, stop doing, start allowing. We have no clue what we can be when you stop forcing and start being.
~Kyle Cease

Actually, after ‘All Love Lost‘ I was so drained creatively that I didn’t have any clue where I wanted to go. So I just started from scratch.
~Joe Budden

If you must have a rule to follow, I would suggest cultivating a dialogue with your inner voice… If you listen to the clues your own images offer, the resulting work will be fresh, and authentic. Fall in love with your world.
~Jane Fulton Alt

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The bronze dwarfs give you the first clue that Wroclaw is no ordinary city. They lurk all over the place, carousing outside pubs, snoring at the doors of hotels, peeking out from behind the bars of the old city jail.
~David Hewson

I’d left Hawaii twice in my life, so I’d been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn’t know how to live in a city.
~Maggie Q

I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.
~Chris Paul

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I once knew a girl who didn’t know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she knew where Africa was and she answered, ‘Is it the orange one on a map?’
~Matt Roper

I can guarantee you that at least 90% of my people that are my age group in Nigeria ‒ who are considered the youth ‒ had no clue about how Nigeria, the real origins of Nigeria.
~Burna Boy

Spiritual methods are essential in Africa if you are going to survive politically. My cousin is the chief security officer for the president of Burkina Faso. He knows the key medicine man who works day and night to keep the president in power. These medicine men don’t have offices downtown; they live in huts in remote areas, but that is where the real political power resides. A medicine man has no clue about the actual workings of domestic or international politics. All he knows is that a person has a seat of importance somewhere, and his job is to keep that person on that seat.
~Malidoma Patrice Some

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I’ve seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.
~Anthony Bourdain

To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I try to find clues in the documented record ‒ from the subject’s own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you’re writing a biography, you’re trying to understand your subject in the same way that you try to understand one of your friends, and that effort at understanding is always very imperfect.
~Russell Freedman

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person’s nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.
~Eric Hoffer

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.
~Stephen Breyer

Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is half-conscious and half-unconscious, as all creative acts must be.
~Helen McCloy

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§ MUSIC:
I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are ‒ the air can be different in different places.
~Mick Jagger

I will definitely start in small venues, as I want to find my feet as a performer; the first shows that Westlife did was ten dates at Wembley, which was just crazy. We didn’t have a clue what we were doing because it was so big.
~Shane Filan

I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.
~Kathleen Hanna (riot grrrl)

You think of your first album, when we had no clue what we were doing, we had no clue if people were going to like it or not, we did it because we love it.
~Chad Gilbert (New Found Glory)

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My parents were simpletons. Everyday living was a big thing in that small village where I was born. They had no clue about music.
~Ilaiyaraaja (multi-instrumentalist, composer, etc)

I have no clue as to where my interest and love for music came from. In fact, I have never learnt any music either, though I wish that I could just close my eyes and play the piano ‒ that is my most cherished desire.
~Dhanush

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I literally wouldn’t have dreamed of it in a million years that I’m going to be standing there with George (Strait) and Garth and Kenny (Chesney) and Reba (McEntire) and Brooks & Dunn. I don’t really have any clue what I’m actually doing with those people because I feel like I’m still just getting started and I’ve seen them all in concert and they’re all my heroes.
~Miranda Lambert

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
~Faith Hill

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There are so many conditions to programming in America, where it’s dominated by these people that own 800 radio stations that have no idea who to play and who not to play, and they listen to somebody or read somebody else’s programming sheet and go by Buck Owens’ opinion or something. Eight hundred stations are controlled by some guy that doesn’t have a clue as to what to do about music.
~Merle Haggard

Having people around you that are honest with you, and having a team around you that can actually track and communicate where things are working and where they’re not working, is really an invaluable asset to an artist’s career. I just see it time and again, people who have no clue about that stuff. It’s frustrating, and I see the frustration for them. It’s a weird thing being an artist, trying to navigate the music business with little to no help.
~Muneshine

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There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it’s all about. It’s a lifestyle. It’s not about popularity and all that crap.
~Billie Joe Armstrong

We had no clue what heavy metal was. We were like: ‘What’s that?’
~Yui Mizuno

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Although I was writing songs when I was younger, I didn’t feel I had much of a clue as to what I was doing or how I was doing it. There are a few songs from my past where I thought, ‘Well, that’s pretty decent,’ but I didn’t have a discipline. I suppose I’m kind of a late bloomer.
~Timothy B Schmit (Eagles, Bee Gees, Poco, etc)

When you start in any band, I don’t think you have any idea as to how long your particular journey is going to last. You really don’t have a clue. I think that when you come together as musicians, that’s the furthest thing from your mind.
~Rob Halford (Judas Priest)

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And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won’t accept you, because we haven’t a clue ‒ you know ‒ of the future of a so-called ‘deaf’ musician. And I just couldn’t quite accept that.
~Evelyn Glennie (percussionist)

I just love music. I love writing songs. It’s not even a job; it’s a gift. I’m waiting for someone to kick me out of the party because I snuck in here, and I keep thinking somebody’s going to figure out that I have no clue. Turns out that most of them have even less of a clue.
~Linda Perry

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I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues.
~Craig Finn

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.
~Tom T Hall

I like to give clues ‒ titles ‒ that can give a simple, evocative hook into what picture or feeling welled up in my mind when I came up with the song.
~David First

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You’re not supposed to totally know what’s happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.
~Neko Case

If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.
~Antoni Tapies

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It’s no accident that Op. 111 [Beethoven] attracts literary attention. Though it’s music, it doesn’t quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.
~Jeremy Denk

If I give a little hint or clue as to where my voice could be going, that would [be] read. Because people can listen closely, you know, you can sit with headphones or you just concentrate on music, you can just hear, sometimes, the desires of the voice itself.
~Will Oldham

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A lot of it starts with playing instruments and working with other people. Some of the new generation is doing it on computers and they don’t have a clue as to how to play anything. That’s probably one of the problems. They don’t know how to make the melody, go through the chord changes. They’re not starting from that same school of thought.
~Ray Parker, Jr

What I gotta do?
Cats don’t even have a clue
Can’t stand to see
Me kick a flow so unbelievably
And never gave a hand
Askin’ ’bout the backup plan
Now that it’s true
Forever tellin’ me that you always knew
~Eamon

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I’m not beholden to the public, and neither are the public beholden to me or my songs. I’m very much of a populist on those terms, I believe that the song is no longer mine anyway. I like to process the dispossession that happens when you play something live.
~Sufjan Stevens

I haven’t a clue why I’ve lasted so long. There’s no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think it’s luck.
~Cher

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~Katy Perry: The One That Got Away (4:49) a mistake of one moment

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~Robert Palmer: Looking For Clues (4:50) the relationship puzzle

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~Lainey Wilson: Heart Like A Truck (3:27) song listed under clues

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I meet people in my business who have this extraordinary ability to understand human nature in their work, but in real life, they don’t seem to have the first clue.
~Joseph Fiennes

I like to know how I’m supposed to feel about things. Just a little clue or hint.
~Colson Whitehead

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What art should be about,’ they will say, ‘is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.’ Well, to be honest ‒ no, it shouldn’t. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; but really, how many penetrating insights to human nature do you need in one lifetime? Two? Three? Once you’ve realised that no one else has a clue what they’re doing, either, and that love can be totally pointless, any further insights into human nature just start getting depressing really.
~Caitlin Moran

Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working
~Simone Elkeles

There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life’s most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.
~Eknath Easwaran

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When you meet someone you love, then you change for good. That’s why the other person will never know or understand the earlier you, and why you can never change back. And why, when that person starts to go, you’ll feel the tear deep in your heart long before your head has the slightest clue what’s going on.
~Michael Marshall Smith

But now the other half of “us” was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I’d be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again.
~Jennifer Brown

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Isn’t the small and common the field we live our life in? The large comes into a life through small-paned windows. A breath is small, but everything depends on it. A person looks at you a single, brief moment longer than is necessary, and everything is changed. The smaller the clue, the larger the meaning, it sometimes feels.
~Jane Hirshfield

Heat skittered through her belly, then directly south. “Sawyer.” In answer, he brought his head up and kissed her. Deep, hungry, tasting her in a purposely slow, thorough manner before pulling back to once again look into her eyes. Oh, God. “Sawyer, what are we doing?” she whispered. He shook his head. “No f#cking clue.”
~Jill Shalvis

He realized something was going on between Logan and me. I wish he’d clue me in on exactly what it was, because I had no idea.
~Jennifer Estep

Talking about the future, like we had a clue.
Never plans that one day, I’d be losing you
~Katy Perry

I haven’t a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating to note what turns them on. …I found myself misty-eyed watching a young lady waving a tearful farewell to her boyfriend on the dock. I couldn’t figure out if I was crying at her plight, or in delight that he wasn’t coming along with us.
~Malcolm Forbes

I didn’t have any clue as to what true marriage meant. I was so used to committing to one thing ‒ music ‒ and then I had to totally commit to a second thing, marriage. I didn’t know how to commit to both of them. It was a scary moment for me.
~Kenny Chesney

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“I’m not sure if I can walk,” she said.
“Then I’ll carry you.”
“Is that what love is?”
“I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I’m in love, I haven’t a clue. Now that I’m in love, I’m completely stupid on the subject.”
~Tom Robbins

The truth is, I don’t have a real clue what love is ‒ how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.
~Ellen Hopkins

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I can’t explain chemistry. I really can’t. I haven’t got a clue what it’s all about. It just happens. It’s like falling in love. You can’t explain why you fall in love or explain why it’s this particular person.
~Elaine Stritch

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.
~Laurell K Hamilton

We don’t have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.
~Kathy Acker

It seems to me that the real clue to your sexual orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy sex with him.
~Christopher Isherwood

I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don’t know what real loneliness is until you’ve known the opposite.
~Rick Yancey

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What keeps you awake at night? I have no clue, but I’m sure as hell that it’s not love.
~Darshan Pania

Methinks we have a clue. Be still, my heart.
~Laurell K Hamilton

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Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy,
out in the back seat of my ’60 Chevy.
Workin’ on mysteries without any clues,
workin’ on our night moves.
~Bob Seger

Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo.
But it’s a real beauty,
a Mexican cutie,
how it got here I haven’t a clue.
~Jimmy Buffett

If not for you,
winter wouldn’t hold no spring,
couldn’t hear a robin sing.
I just wouldn’t have a clue,
if not for you.
~Bob Dylan

I didn’t have a clue what love was about until I met Sharon.
~Ozzy Osbourne

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You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. You have no clue of how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.
~Richelle Mead

You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what… I feel inside me.
~Katy Evans

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Love listens to the other person and searches for clues on ways to serve, bless and lift up that person.
~Joyce Meyer

If you ever got me, you wouldn’t have a clue what to do with me.
~Charlie Kaufman

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I have no clue when I’m getting married. I just go with the flow.
~Rob Gronkowski

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When you are pregnant for the first time, you don’t know anything about the process. You are so naive! You do not even understand nor do you have any clue as to what’s going on… it is a strange feeling altogether.
~Esha Deol

Fathers, for the first time, we have no clue what we’re doing. I had no idea when I became a father.
~Ed McCaffrey

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The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.
~Richard Kelly

Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys, ‒ these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, ‒ these are the clues you must follow if you would find the way to his heart.
~J C Ryle

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Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it’s so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.
~Dave Barry

If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father’s Day. The only Father’s Day tradition in my family is the annual conversation he and I have where I say, ‘Hey, Dad, what do you want for Father’s Day this year?’ and he says, ‘Nothing.’ Then I ask my mom what I should get him and she says, ‘He likes sandalwood soap, dangly jewelry and Chanel No. 5 perfume.’
~Michael Showalter

A year after I started college, I had no clue what I wanted to do. My mother said, forget everything else‒if it were your birthday today, what would you do? I thought, I would play with makeup at the department store. So she said, do that!
~Bobbi Brown

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Having children can smooth the relationship, too. Mother and daughter are now equals. That is hard to imagine, even harder to accept, for among other things, it means realizing that your own mother felt this way, too–unsure of herself, weak in the knees, terrified about what in the world to do with you. It means accepting that she was tired, inept, sometimes stupid; that she, too, sat in the dark at 2:00 A.M. with a child shrieking across the hall and no clue to the child’s trouble.
~Anna Quindlen

I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don’t have a clue how hard it is going to be.
~Anne Lamott

In the beginning, we didn’t have a clue. There’s certainly nothing that prepares you for twins.
~Christine Mazier

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I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there’s someone you don’t hear from, it’s the person you want to hear from the most.
~Janet Jackson

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If people want to see me as the bad boy because one of my friends has gone to jail, then that’s what they’re going to think, but they haven’t a clue about my life and what I’ve had to deal with growing up and the things I’ve been around.
~Andre Gray

I guess you never have any clue how many people are in your corner until something tough happens.
~Emma McKeon

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My friend jewelry designer Courtney Crangi has been obsessed with Star Wars all her life and has seen the movies 150 times. When we first started talking about it, I was amazed that her knowledge made mine ‒ which was even then pretty impressive ‒ seem pathetic. And I think there are a couple of reasons for this. One is that the leader of the rebellion is Princess Leia. American theatergoers had never seen a princess like that. She’s not a delicate flower, she’s not passive, she’s often the only one who has a clue.
~Cass Sunstein

Only on the last day of the shoot Bhumika Chawla revealed that she was pregnant. None of us had a clue about it and I was shocked to say the least. She is a thorough professional and just carried on with her job with no fuss whatsoever. Hat’s off to her.
~Ravi Babu

I went to a technology conference in Germany, and there were these beautiful, model-like women standing there in front of the products. I asked a question, and she had no clue what the product was. She had to call someone from the back to explain it to me. To me, that’s using a woman as an object. To me, that’s totally wrong.
~Manal al-Sharif

One of the things I haven’t been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn’t have a clue.
~Laura Mvula

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I have no clue what a ‘hottie’ is. To think of myself in those terms is absurd.
~Drew Fuller

I had no clue they would fall into my armpits eventually.
~Katy Perry

When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.
~Margaret Mead

I have no clue. I have ovaries; therefore, I repel all things mechanical.
~M Leighton

We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.
~Douglas Adams

It’s just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth. This not only causes him to overlook valuable clues to our ancestry, but sometimes leads him into making statements that are arrant and demonstrable nonsense.
~Elaine Morgan

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The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they did, they’d have to do something about it.
~Barbara Graham

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Jules Feiffer @Lambiek Comiclopedia

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I don’t even have a clue as to where to find a pregnancy test. I’m looking at all the aisles… they don’t have one that says ‘oops.
~Gabriel Iglesias

Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and disposable.
~Mrs White in Clue (1985)

If you’re looking for the suspect in a suicide bombing, here’s a clue: Look for the dead guy.
~Norm MacDonald

Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you’re trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, ‘You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.’
~Bill Burr

And we certainly don’t have full conversations on cellphones. You know? Usually the reception is so bad, but it’s only bad on your side. The person talking to you has no clue. They’re just rambling on and on. You’ve got your finger jammed in your ear, you’re shushing people on the streets. You’re ducked behind a dumpster so you can hear about your friend’s new hair cut. What about the bangs are they shorter?! Are the bangs shorter?! The bangs!
~Ellen DeGeneres

I constantly walk into a room and I don’t remember why. But for some reason, I think there’s going to be a clue in the fridge.
~Caroline Rhea

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I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too, but it was more in the direction of where it was headed. I didn’t have a clue as to the drawing style, because the drawing style that I was groomed on from the beginning was newspaper comic strips, which were much more conventional.
~Jules Feiffer

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You clearly don’t know who you’re talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks!
~Walter White

I don’t think I’m gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ever. I just don’t know ‒ who the hell knows what’s gonna happen to them? Nobody! Isn’t that comforting? Nobody has a clue. I like that we don’t know. And I like that it’s somebody else’s decision, not mine.
~Elaine Stritch

This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
~Sogyal Rinpoche

I’ll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It’s not worse than dishonor; it’s not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.
~Bill Maher

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For my own good. Anytime anyone had ever used those words to me, they hadn’t had the slightest clue what ‘my own good’ truly was
~Claudia Gray

My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn’t have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn’t play sports, couldn’t learn, and I was bottom of the class.
~Anthony Hopkins

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.
~Sonia Sotomayor

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We cannot know the young child’s personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
~Gordon W Allport

Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don’t fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that’s at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.
~Angela Duckworth

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.
~Haniel Long

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I wasn’t frightened of people, but I didn’t have a clue about the adult world.
~Shirley Henderson

I had no clue what anyone was talking about like, you know I don’t think I, I don’t think any of the depictions of sex were more to me than just like an image of two people’s arms rubbing together [when I was eight], I just had no clue.
~Lena Dunham

What the world is like from a nine-year-old’s point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you’ve got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.
~Spike Jonze

I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.
~Mason Cooley

The tiny, initial clue … by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.
~Marcel Proust

sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.
~Cecelia Ahern

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When you’re 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
~Patrick Kane

When I was 27, I didn’t have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.
~Stephen Graham (actor)

I don’t think anyone really has a clue what they are doing in their 20s and, in a lot of cases, their 30s.
~Ruth Jones

At 19, you know everything; by the time you’re 40, you haven’t got a clue.
~Hugh Bonneville

God had a heartbeat for 18-25 years old…the vast majority of whom don’t have a clue why they are on this planet.
~Louie Giglio

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When we were young, we knew things. We knew basic history, even as it related to fashion. Now, when something reappears, an 18 year old has no clue that it’s a revival. Despite the fact that they’re almost always online they don’t get references. I think that’s part of why visual things are becoming so derivative.
~Fran Lebowitz

Everything is this distorted mishmash of pop culture that pulls from this era and that era and is just thrown at the wall. These people have no clue what anything really means. There are guys out there getting a million hits for a video.
~Willis Earl Beal

Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in themselves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.
~Joseph Chilton Pearce

The nation was tearing itself apart over pro-life and pro-choice but completely ignored the problems of the kids who were already here. I mean, no schools, no work, no clue if they’d even have a future. They just went nuts!
~Neal Shusterman

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Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn’t it? Everything else is artful.
~Angela Carter (author)

Dena had always been a loner. She did not feel connected to anything. Or anybody. She felt as if everybody else had come into the world with a set of instructions about how to live and someone had forgotten to give them to her. She had no clue what she was supposed to feel, so she had spent her life faking at being a human being, with no idea how other people felt. What was it like to really love someone? To really fit in or belong somewhere? She was quick, and a good mimic, so she learned at an early age to give the impression of a normal, happy girl, but inside she had always been lonely.
~Fannie Flagg

Quite frankly I don’t know how to be happy. I have not a clue.
~Elaine Stritch

Depression is feeling like you’ve lost something but having no clue when or where you last had it. Then one day you realize what you lost is yourself.
~author unknown

Personal happiness seems mysteriously and frustratingly elusive. Even when people achieve it, they can’t hold onto it. That is the greatest clue, the biggest hint, the surest sign that something’s amiss.
~Neale Donald Walsch

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People’s happiness is as great as they can create it.
~L Ron Hubbard

But I’m taking small steps
‘Cause I don’t know where I’m going
I’m taking small steps
And I don’t know what to say.
Small steps,
Trying to pull myself together
And maybe I’ll discover
A clue along the way!
~Louis Sachar

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You cannot make yourself have a flashback, nor will you have one unless you are emotionally ready to remember something. Once remembered, the memory can help you to face more of the truth. You can then express your pent-up feelings about the memory and continue on your path to recovery. Think of the flashback as a clue to the next piece of work. No matter how painful, try to view it as a positive indication that you are now ready and willing to remember.
~Beverly Engel

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A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It’s what doctors most love to do.
~Lisa Sanders

The two fulcra of medicine are reason and observation. Observation is the clue to guide the physician in his thinking.
~Giorgio Baglivi

The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.
~Jerome Groopman

I have no clue how I got COVID. I am surprised.
~Randhir Kapoor

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My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.
~Carl Jung

He has no clue that I have the patience of a saint. At least that’s what Carlos says, although that isn’t saying much, considering his fuse is about as short as an eyelash.
~Simone Elkeles

I have no clue [why people say I’m insane]. Every time I’ve heard it, it came from an ugly person’s mouth, so I don’t care.
~Amanda Bynes

I don’t have the first clue who he is talking about, because all I worry about is Jerome.
~Jerome James

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Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven’t a clue.
~Roger Ebert

Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the workings of Walter’s mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she saw.
~W Somerset Maugham

An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
~Charles Dickens

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
~Fred Rogers

Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.
~Peter Ackroyd (biographer/novelist)

Well, the clues are there. They always are. Which is why when crimes are solved decades after the fact, it’s obvious that the clues had always been right in front of them. A traffic ticket in Brooklyn is how they got [“Son of Sam” serial killer] David Berkowitz. You’ve just got to look.
~James Ellroy

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.
~ Gaskell

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This is the amazing thing about you. Had I not known anything about your story, I would have absolutely not a clue that you had ever been a boy ‒ a male. Which makes me absolutely believe you always should have been a woman.
~Piers Morgan

Dreaming and becoming are completely separate parts of the process. However, they are both as important as each other. Never discount how powerful your dreams are. If you cannot visualise what it is you wish to become, then the brain doesn’t have the first clue how to get you there.
~Chris Murray

Legal, religious, romantic, everyone actors, all ‒ all are clues and included in this coveted understanding. It’s the puzzle of humanity. The only way it all fits together (utterly, perfectly, wisely) is to include all the pieces.
~Ed Note

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Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person’s mood and attitude.
~John C Maxwell

Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue.
~Mason Cooley

The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We’re looking at a document. It gives you clues.
~David Hockney

Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What’s the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.
~Harmony Korine

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I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
~Peggy Noonan

I haven’t a clue how my story will end, but that’s all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that’s when you discover the stars.
~Nancy Willard

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Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.
~Hannah Arendt

You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with it, play with it, ponder over it, delve deeply into it, till the shell of ignorance breaks open and you emerge into the realm of reality.
~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.
~Laura Riding

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
~Margaret Atwood

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The ocean of solutions is within, enliven that. It’s a world of clues, a world of mystery but the mystery can get solved, you can find a lot of answers for these things within.
~David Lynch

I live on having a challenge when the line is really thin. I like it the most when you have no clue what is going to happen.
~Robin Van Persie

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You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.
~John Updike

We should all relax about life because you don’t have a clue as to what’s really going on.
~Barry Sonnenfeld

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Pause for a moment and check where your own heart and thoughts are. Are you focused on the things that matter most? How you spend your quiet time may provide a valuable clue. Where do your thoughts go when the pressure of deadlines is gone? Are your thoughts and heart focused on those short-lived fleeting things that matter only in the moment or on things that matter most?
~Dieter F Uchtdorf

It would be helpful if the universe would give us one big clue, or a giant compass, if you will, pointing to the direction we should be taking. In fact, the compass is there. To find it, you need only look inside yourself to discover your soul’s purest desire, its dream for your life.
~Deepak Chopra

Most people who succeed in life have no clue that what they are trying to achieve is impossible.
~John Avery

But if you put your thoughts on what’s on its way, then you’ll start looking for every little clue, and every person walking into your life becomes someone who is a messenger or a deliverer of something that is going to help you deliver what you have an intention about.
~Wayne Dyer

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I’m not electronically geared at all; I’m really a 19th century cartoonist. I have a 15-year-old daughter, and what she’s attracted to is of course iPod and this pod and that, I mean stuff I don’t even begin to know ‒ I never learned how to type for Christ’s sake! I can’t get in her head and find out what she would do if she had the kind of talent I had, I don’t have a clue. Every generation comes up with its own quirkiness and its own culture which gets its inspiration from what’s in the air at that time.
~Jules Feiffer

Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food
~Deepak Chopra

How can you get very far,
If you don’t know who you are?
How can you do what you ought,
If you don’t know what you’ve got?
And if you don’t know which to do
Of all the things in front of you,
Then what you’ll have when you are through
Is just a mess without a clue
Of all the best that can come true
If you know What and Which and Who.
~Benjamin Hoff

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.
~Jay Asher

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This miracle is in the small things of daily life; we must live in the understanding that at every moment there is a way out of each problem, the way of finding that which is missing, the right clue to the decision which must be taken in order to change our entire future.
~Paulo Coelho

You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don’t, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings emerge only when you get in touch with your powerful self.
~Susan Jeffers

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Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It’s your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you’ve got a writer who’s clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.
~Morgan Freeman

Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings.
~Gilbert Ryle

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‘Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,’ said his cousin. ‘But we seem to have no other.’
~Ivy Compton-Burnett

The folks who know the truth aren’t talking…. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
~Tom Waits

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I wonder if they realize how much I notice about them. They probably haven’t a clue because I never look at them or show the slightest interest. But I’m very aware of everything. I remember seeing an old film once where a father says to his son: “Son when your mouth’s open you’re not learning anything.” If that’s true then I’m well on the way to becoming the world’s wisest woman.
~John Marsden

Remember this. We are always looking for problems to solve, and to solve problems we need to be ready for clues. And you will never be in the receiving frame of mind if you – never – shut – up!
~Chris Murray

Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
~Alexander Pope

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It was the typical paranoid experience [to hide coke]. As soon as I knew my hiding place, I thought the whole world knew it. I’d write clues to my hiding places in code, then forget the code and spend the rest of the day looking for my coke.
~George Carlin

People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.
~Leonard Jacobson

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Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn’t stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.
~Glen Duncan

The present age delights in unearthing a great man’s secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such “revelations.”
~Andre Malraux

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One of the clues that I chased was that Dan Cooper, whoever he was, found an old magazine story called “How to Leave Your Life.” And followed the directions on how to leave your life, and just went to the beach one day with his wife and kids, and said he needed to go to the bathroom, and went to the restroom at the beach and never came home.
~Geoffrey Gray

statistic: the us bureau of missing persons reports
that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared
leaving no solid clues
nor trace only
a space
in the lives of their friends.
~Ishmael Reed

What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you are the only one who can do it. People can give you clues how to fall and when to stand, and when you are falling and when you are standing, this only you can know. And in the way of your own talents is the only way to do it.
~Joseph Campbell

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@Writers Platform

…a really good play is ambiguous ‒ which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play’s words provide very little clue. On the contrary, words are notoriously imprecise and open to every kind of interpretation, so you must search.
~Glenda Jackson

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
~Laura Linney

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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.
~Tobias Wolff

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I always tell my students that, in fiction, the opening is a clue to the work’s DNA: not only what it is, but what it will become, where it will lead you.
~Laura van den Berg

The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast’s struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay–the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.
~Walt Whitman

It’s like, symbolic language, the way that people approach dense poetry… it always bugs me, because that approach suggests that it’s like a mystery novel, and that if you can put together the clues, you can come up with one singular answer.
~Carey Mercer

Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.
~Philip Reeve

Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven’t a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.
~Seamus Heaney

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Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. … He should have been pleased by his success with these verbal fabrications, but instead he was depressed by it. The memos telling him he’d done a good job meant nothing to him; all they proved was that no one was capable of appreciating how clever he had been. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police.
~Margaret Atwood

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.
~Ross Macdonald

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…my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader’s interest.
~Mary Roberts Rinehart

An important part of any good mystery story like ‘Original Sin‘ is that it’s not just a game of ‘Clue’ with surprise after surprise after surprise, but the goal is to tell a story in the midst of that. Even once you know the solution to the mysteries, it’s far from the whole story.
~Jason Aaron

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In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else.
~Joan Lowery Nixon

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Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King’s English? … If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.
~Dorothy L Sayers

I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I’ve read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled across this kind of mix of materials. I wanted to create the feeling of a detective going through a box of clues.
~Brian Pinkerton

Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and then… justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads.
~Stefan Petrucha

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I’ve discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even convinced that I’m on the wrong track.
~Dani Shapiro

Contemporary art often plays to the part of us that is very uncomfortable with not being sure, that cannot maintain a state of ‘don’t know’. The over-prioritising of meaning gets in the way of just experiencing the art in a more sensual way. Judging quality purely from an intuitive emotional response needs more confidence and experience than just working it out like a crossword clue.
~Grayson Perry

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The majority of critics, I would say, are people who have no clue what they’re talking about and have never been in a wrestling ring. They’ve never been a public speaker. They wouldn’t even know how to lock up with me if I allowed them to.
~Roman Reigns

I don’t like critics; I really don’t like them. I think most of them are ignorant and don’t have a clue!
~John Rzeznik

For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make the difference between trying to write a story around a cliche or an original idea, and better still, studying it can eventually clue you in on how to breathe new life into tired tropes.
~Charles Stross

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Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven’t a clue.
~Gloria Naylor

People often ask writers where they get their inspiration, and for me, the short answer is that I haven’t a clue; I’m just grateful that I get them.
~Michelle Paver

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Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.
~Sophie Hannah

Reason is Life’s sole arbiter, the magic Laby’rinth’s single clue.
~Richard Francis Burton

I am always looking for some clue, some easily missed sign that might just be the missing piece in the puzzle.
~Oliver Harris

You know the thing that interests me about ‘Unsolved Mysteries?’ It’s because there are people out there, people who know something, who may have the one final clue.
~Raymond Burr

I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several narrators then a clue has to pop up in the first line. There have to be certain grammatical clues, or distinctive names.
~Louise Erdric

About writing I learned that always, always, always it’s necessary to haunt your settings. I’m a big researcher. All my fiction is based on tons of digging. But the vital importance of actually traveling to the settings of a novel really hit me. And it’s not just the setting details, not just the visuals and other sensory data, that will pop. You’ll find surprising clues that swerve your story in whole new, deeper, surprising, more organic ways.
~Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Often I’ll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.
~Douglas A Lawson

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.
~Manuel Puig

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Maybe it’s all utterly meaningless. Maybe it’s all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we’re in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody’s lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.
~Frederick Buechner

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First and foremost, note that Plato always wrote dialogues, and never attempted to produce a theoretical or scientific treatise. This is a big clue for me. From beginning to end, Plato was aware of the limits of theoretical and technical reasoning, and his dialogues are a massive exploration.
~David Roochnik

Perhaps, even, you have been given books by friends, parents, teachers, then told that these books are the type you have to read. Those books are invariably described as “important”‒ which in my experience, pretty much means that they’re boring. (words like meaningful and thoughtful are other good clues.)
~Brandon Sanderson

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I’m happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I’m at that place where I hope that the book knows what it’s doing because right now I don’t have a clue ‒ I’m writing one scene after another like a man walking through a valley in thick fog, just able to see the path a little way ahead, but with no idea where it’s actually going to lead him.
~Neil Gaiman

Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she’d hook me up with a clue
~Ilona Andrews

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‘I’m not the world’s greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, … broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?’ ‒ when J K Rowling insisted she wasn’t writing fantasy.
~Terry Pratchett

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.
~Alan Rickman

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…of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible‒and the most powerful‒was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.
~Paulo Coelho

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Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that’s been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue ‒ the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance.
~Steve Erickson

We authors certainly don’t know what is going to happen to our books. Are they going to disappear into the ether, following music downloads, or are ebooks going to open up a whole new world of readers? And how much are we being paid per copy? We haven’t a clue.
~Justin Cartwright

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I wrote ‘Milk‘ for me. I wrote it for the younger version of me that had no clue that there are people who’d ever fought for my rights.
~Dustin Lance (rainbow rights)

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I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn’t have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.
~Donna Leon

I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don’t have a clue what they’re on about.
~Marcus Mumford

Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on.
~John Updike

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I’ve always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn’t got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.
~Andrew Motion

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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
~Antonia Fraser

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I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about ‒ you don’t have a clue.
~Conor McPherson

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That’s my aspiration.
~Julian Casablancas

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Prewritten Promp: clue

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A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the grasp of human thought. In short, a religious belief is only a finger pointing to the moon. Some religious people never get beyond the study of the finger. Others are engaged in sucking it. Others yet use the finger to gouge their eyes out. These are the bigots whom religion has made blind. Rare indeed is the religionist who is sufficiently detached from the finger to see what it is indicating ‒ these are those who, having gone beyond belief, are taken for blasphemers.
~Anthony de Mello

The Quakers have a saying: “An enemy is one whose story we have not heard.” To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.
~Philip Yancey

That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman* is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great.
~Swami Vivekananda

*Ātman: Hindi-Sanskrit word for the true or eternal Self or the self-existent essence of each individual, which persists across multiple bodies and lifetimes

You have to be able to connect to the world of archetypes. That is not so easy, and most people in the West have no clue, that that is necessary, because they have no clue of what that means. They see the image, they see Buddha here, but they don’t see what the image represents.
~Robert Svoboda

The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and instructive in themselves, but as the clue to all other history. They tell us what man is, and they alone tell us why he is what he is: a contradictory creature that seeing and approving of what is good, pursues and performs what is evil.
~Gouverneur Morris

I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how people work. So I think most moral philosophy is disconnected from the species that we happen to be. In fact, they like it that way. Many moral philosophers insist that morality grows out of our rationality, that it applies to any rational being anywhere in the universe, and that it is not based on contingent or coincidental facts about our evolution.
~Jonathan Haidt

We didn’t evolve; God made us. So I just want to explain to you exactly how that happened… Some of the things you’ll hear do sound a little bit far-fetched. I admit that. Then I found out that the other name for The Bible is The Gospel, so it is all true. Luckily, the clue is in the title.
~Ricky Gervais

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I firmly believe in Divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without God the world would be a maze without a clue.
~Woodrow Wilson

Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.
~Lauren F Winner

I never see God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter.
~Philip Yancey

If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.
~Peter Kreeft

I don’t see the big picture. I don’t have a clue. But I know God does. I’m going to declare that, even if I don’t feel it right now.
~Steven Curtis Chapman

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I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it’s the mystery of life or life in general.
~Robert Gober

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God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing. And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.
~Lauren F Winner

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All the same, Thomas now had a plan. As bad as it was, he had a plan. They needed more clues about the code. They needed MEMORIES. So he was going to get stung by a Griever. Go through the Changing. On purpose.
~James Dashner

Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, “God, you don’t know what it’s like! You don’t understand! You have no idea what I’m going through. You don’t have a clue how much this hurts.” The cross is God’s way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, “Me too.”
~Rob Bell

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You may be living under the illusion that when God ignites great things in your life, He’ll announce it with a big bang. He might. It’s more likely that He won’t. So stop waiting around for the big bang. Pay attention to the subtle clues and the still, small voice. God lives in that place too.
~Steven Furtick

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Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to structure, whether mental, physical, or social. Attachment and resistance are appearances with the same root: when you resist by pulling away your awareness, the emotion is one of fear, and the contraction is experienced as a pull like magnetism or gravity; that is, attachment. That is why we often fear to open our minds to more exalted spiritual beings. We think fear is a signal to withdraw, when in fact it is a sign we are already withdrawing too much.
~Thaddeus Golas

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I believe in this being, not because I have any proper or direct knowledge of His existence, but I am at a loss to account for the existence and arrangement of the visible universe, and, being left in the wide sea of conjecture without a clue from analogy or experience, I find the conjecture of a God easy, obvious, and irresistible.
~William Godwin

Jesus is the best clue we have as to what God is like and He is consistently gracious and merciful, especially to those who are failures. He is harsh to uptight, judgmental people, but merciful and gracious to the failures. He seems to draw out the smallest kernel of faith in each person that He’s with. So, I presume that that’s the way God is going to judge humanity.
~Philip Yancey

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Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center of black holes doesn’t make sense, which is a big clue to physicists that we don’t have our physics quite right.
~Andrea M Ghez

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you’re lucky, you get strange clues.
~Lene Hau

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries
~John Herschel

By now, we have learnt that game-changing ideas do not come from experts, they come from people who haven’t got a clue and ask stupid questions.
~Chris Boardman

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this-never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be‒usually is, in fact‒a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.
~Alexander Fleming

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Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, “The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity’ as if it were a number. It’s not. You may as well ask, ‘What is truth divided by beauty?’ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,’ ‘truth,’ ‘beauty’—those are not numbers.
~John Derbyshire

I’m not engaged in predicting random number generators. I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win. I don’t have a clue.
~Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
~Robert A Heinlein

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The phone is an instrument of intrusion into order. It is a threat to control. Just when you think you are alone and safe, the call could come that changes your life. Or someone else’s. It makes the same flat, mechanical noise for everyone and gives no clues what’s waiting there on the other end of the line. You can never be too careful.
~Janice Galloway

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
~Tim Berners-Lee

I have vaguely entertained the idea of learning how to use the Internet and email. It looks easy, but I’m sure it’s harder than it seems. Never having used a computer makes a big difference. I haven’t a clue which keys to press.
~Bella Freud

We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.
~Steve Crocker

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No one has a clue how to build a conscious machine, at all. We have less clue about how to do that than we have about build a faster-than-light spaceship.
~Stuart J Russell

You know what, we don’t know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don’t believe what anyone tells you.
~Jeff Hawkins (neuroscientist)

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C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
~Bjarne Stroustrup

Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future.
~Dr An Wang

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Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility.
~Nikola Tesla

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Students present themselves…like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.
~John Updike

I spend quite a bit of time thinking about my students. I look at them, at their work, I listen to what they tell me, and try to figure out who they might become in the best of all possible worlds. This is not easy. Students try to give you clues; sometimes they look at you as if imploring you to understand something about them that they don’t yet have the means to articulate. How can one succeed at this? And how can one do it 20 times over for all the students in a class? It’s impossible, of course. I know this, but I try anyway. It’s tiring.
~Phoebe Gloeckner

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I saw ‘The 39 Clues‘ as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way ‒ to take some of these amazing stories from history, dust them off and make them alive.
~Rick Riordan

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I’d had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.
~John Wesley

Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It’s time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
~Dale Archer

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I can’t tell you how much debt I took on to attend New York University because, at the time, I didn’t care to notice. And besides, what teenager has a clue about interest rates? What I can tell you is that by my mid-20s, I owed somewhere around $50,000.
~Camille Perri

People say, “Do you know how much a million dollars is?” I don’t have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?
~Billie Jean King

The education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.
~Ben Stein

These soliloquies explain our people’s lack of stability
You keepin it real, but ain’t got a clue what reality really be
See the diameter of your knowledge
Is the circumference of your activity
~Ras Kass

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“Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue,” said Sirius.
~J K Rowling

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Most of the planet is covered with water, so there must be a clue to its worth in that fact.
~Chris Eubank Sr

Even a wolf knows how to be polite when animalistic humans have no clue about politeness.
~Munia Khan

Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren’t on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
~Nathaniel Philbrick

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.
~Helen Caldicott

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§ The Exercise:

clouds #2

a moving story
spread scripts cross the sky
narratives on the move
if one could parse
not merely read them
clues to Club secrets

as clouds breathe and live
cry, show other signs of life
place in time stamped a fact
even to dissipation and ephemory
they keep a dearth of records
and own the lack of memory

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consternation

fear worthy
magnets of beauty
dazed gaze at vistas
driving
the danger of curves
hers

intuitive nerves
instinctive swerves
attention to safety
not a puzzle knot-of-clues
poet bards pay their dues
to filter art from crafty

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more

to perfect what is perfection
to want more than all there is
to make the wetter water wish
pile blessed on top of bliss
true love would not ask for this
satisfied with a passing kiss

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anticipating

soon,
having just recently
eclipsed the sun
stark dark tree limbs
will marble the moon
grinning behind them
pleased with herself

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xxx

turning clues into revenue
writing books about crooks
poe doyle no parvenues
but turning looks into bucks
nudes into pay-per views
video versus paper news
scandals pay network dues

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digression

prophecy planted, news-driven clues
brinksmen in power, teeter totter abuse
freedom fighters confused
home-grown terrorists accused
business is progress, profits have dues
lubricated with fiction, tolerant of friction
haunted heroes turned zeroes
morph into torture, doctor the news
masking intentions, mastering views

enveloped, inhaling strife
breathing it in, craving life
exhale, bravely bearing
the barren and boring
old fabric hopes of life
the iron rule running rife
holding faith or ending life
global story’s hidden knife
die for the after-Answer Life

death random
running rampant
debt to history
remnant memories
remaining duties
claims of love
calls of beauty
and curiosity
Life, we salute Thee

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5s ‘n 7s

passing holograms, people
blanks wander into focus
surfaces, not even bumps
film printed realities
wear clues, personalities
act out faith-love loyalties
pretend at anomalies

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milestones define the lifetime
timely scheduled passages
hormonal expectations
love’s romantic adhesions
marriage, think glue for a clue

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no clue as to who
grew tired of two first
neither me or you
will confess it true
why alone is worse
when one is too few
need for love a curse

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quagmire’s guise of love
quest for clues far lost
search begins with self
told this truth foremost
bridge yet to be crossed

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party politics begets
clueless feudin’ no results
paltry purpose doth ascend
deep-end dependence upends
leftover scraps to defend

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plot: a piece of place
made-up storyline
unmapped, empty space
priceless, hard to find
clueless, boundless kind

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evergreen landscape
grey of day black mood
red coals to dead fire
blue smoke was the clue
colored by desire

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clue to passion fruit
candied grenade, seeds galore
dashed with salt, explodes

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Equality is directed primarily at reducing established class privilege, offers few clues as to why.
~Amy Gutmann

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
~Joseph Campbell

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We’ve associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten so far beyond the layman that if you read contemporary philosophy you’ve no clue, because it’s almost become math. And it’s odd that if you don’t do that and you call yourself a philosopher that you always get ‘homespun’ attached to it.
~Bertrand Russell

…don’t the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? ‒if we could go there, you could see it doesn’t. It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn’t have a clue that it’s a tree; it’s the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.
~Robin McKinley

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Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But those who talk of wake-up calls tend to have an easy-going way with words.
~Craig Brown

I have to slow down for some people. In Louisiana, people didn’t have a clue what I was talking about. I remember seeing people glaze over. Seeing the moment where they’ve just completely lost all… They just wait for me to stop talking and then say, ‘Yeah.’
~Joe Gilgun

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The innocent and the guiltless may not ask the apologies since one has not, even the clue of it.
Ehsan Sehgal

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.
~Robert Greene

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Now think about the Universal Law. It reflects to you exactly and precisely what you put out. If your thought-forms say, “I haven’t got a clue about what I want,” the Universal Law is going to say, “Listen, mate, if you haven’t got a clue, neither have I.
~Stuart Wilde

I don’t have a clue about the way to achievement, however the way to disappointment is attempting to please everyone.
~Bill Cosby

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The only thing that gets us through sometimes is a proper, humbled sense that we don’t have a clue, we can’t be sure what’s going to happen next and life will always be much larger than our ideas of it.
~Pico Iyer

To me, it’s simple: if you’ve got the time, use it to get ready. What else could you possibly have to do that’s more important? Yes, maybe you’ll learn how to do a few things you’ll never wind up actually needing to do, but that’s a much better problem to have than needing to do something and having no clue where to start.
~Chris Hadfield

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Some people see me as someone who makes other people look bad… I often get a feeling most people don’t know who I am, or have a clue, and I live with that. I don’t try to prove anything by talking.
~Maxine Waters (US House)

As leaders, we understand that intangibles are important, but we don’t have a clue how to measure them.
~Chip Conley

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The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
~John Kenneth Galbraith

The clue is not to ask in a miserly way‒the key is to ask in a grand manner.
~Ann Wigmore

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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
~Arthur Conan Doyle

I keep calling it the I-thought. It’s a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.
~Robert Adams

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Life is beautiful, but you don’t have a clue.
~Lana Del Rey

A rebel without a clue.
~Tom Petty

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If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he’s a master of concealment. And the world is not something that gives itself away. The heavens still keep their secrets.
~Jostein Gaarder

If God didn’t want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn’t go around handing out dreams! That’s a clue!
~Mark Gorman

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Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?
~Ernest Cline

THE NOTE said the first clue was “in the big one.” I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I saw no pattern. Not such a surprise, since I was missing the puzzle chromosome and couldn’t do puzzles designed for nine-year-olds.
~Janet Evanovich

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…had what Kierkegaard called ‘the sickness of infinitude,’ wandering from one path to another with no real recognition that I was embarked upon a search, and scarcely a clue as to what I might be after. I only knew that at the bottom of each breath there was a hollow place that needed to be filled.
~Peter Matthiessen

I’m only a four-dimensional creature. Haven’t got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn’t. I know because I asked him.
~Carl Sagan

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I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone… Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.
~Jonathan Hull

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
~David Bohm

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Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution of this quite incredible Universe, we still have not the smallest clue to our own fate… Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.
~Fred Hoyle

The Fates but only spin the coarser clue;
The finest of the wool is left for you.
~John Dryden

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