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  • Bill Viola One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don't say 'insecure' in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: 'Are they good enough?' 'Is this the right thing to do?' I really beat myself up over that.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Randall Jarrell One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like a child.
    Randall Jarrell
    poet, critic, novelist, essayist (1914 - 1965)
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  • Karl Menninger One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
    Karl Menninger
    American psychiatrist ( - 1990)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Bruce Sterling One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • John Ruskin One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Callie Khouri One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • John W. Gardner One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Branford Marsalis One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • C. Everett Koop One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Bernard Marcus One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.
    Bernard Marcus
    American billionaire businessman (1929 - )
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  • Ben Bass One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.
    Ben Bass
    American–Canadian actor
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  • Barbara Demick One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Barry Mann One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Ann Landers One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Ben Horowitz One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Junius One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, today is doctrine.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • G. Emmons One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
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  • Carol Ann Duffy One saw I was alive. Loosened
    his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.
    Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.
    The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate
    this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.
    Standing Female Nude (1985) Shooting Stars
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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