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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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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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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