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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Curious Quotient Excited Intelligence
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You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, especially if they're family.

Always Character Closely Family
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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Tell Teach Remember Involve
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I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

Ancient Child Father Grandmother
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I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

Being Doctor Good Liked
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All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

Anything Because Choice Compulsive
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Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

Guess Impossible Know Need
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It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

Easier Hear Instead Much
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I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.

Bottom Car Christ Church
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We clearly see in God's Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It's easier to come up with excuses for why we can't do things that are hard or that we really don't want to do.

Ability Anything Believe Clearly
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Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it's direction you get in His Word or something He's specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

Absolute Best Direction Ever
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'

Celebrity Day End Happy
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

Common Beauty Corny Fades
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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Dream Ever Fear Goes
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

God Intellectual Levels Metaphor
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Any Author Fiction Form
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Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

Jesus Answer Questions Life
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

Been Century Favor Freedom
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A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.

Memoir Version Perspective Omit
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I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

Convey Story Particular Idea
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Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Give Experience Knowledge Talent
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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

Change Story Colour Create
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Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

About Always Birthday Come
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

Could Dad Date Dates
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I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'

About Complain Grind Tell
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When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.

American American Film Because Doing
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I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

About Disappointing Few Friends
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Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?

Creature Morals Drink Nature
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Everyone Help Someone Tell
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Rocks Cradle Light Sense
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Body Continue Dream Filming
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Give He Him Himself
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Expect Expect The Unexpected Intellect Modern
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They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

Amount Any Bloody Intelligence
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I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

Gadgets Machine Never Producer
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Always Conflicting Directly Entertain
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

About Again Also Appreciating
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From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Difficult Done Earliest Figure
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First of all, Vince McMahon doesn't argue - he tells you!
Argue First First Of All He
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The guy who could be me, but he knows when to draw the line, is John Cena. John Cena can rock 'n' roll, let me tell you.

Could Draw Guy He
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I tell everyone in the world that I have always been the best father I could be and that I was the worst husband. Wooo!
Always Been Best Could
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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

Tale Passion Tell Mind
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

Truth Creating More Around
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Burn Live Living Desire
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

Freedom Fear
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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

Life Short Easy Feel
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Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

About Back ByTheTime Day
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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
Critics Cry Finest Full
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I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

All-Around Around Article Book
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

Bad Bad Ones Characters Even
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