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As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
God
Medical
Arrogance
Believe
Controlled
Grace
Heart
Patient
People
Succeed
Person
Pray
God Heart Believe
Because
Then
Get
Pretty
Only
Out
Fix
Through
Chest
Take
Saw
Surgeon
Survives
Uncontrolled
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I am mean; I'm nasty at times. I don't feel like talking to people at times. When I am in a bad mood and have had a really awful day, don't come in my face because I am not tolerant and I am not a goddess; I can't handle it after a point. I am going to get up, and I am going to scream, and I am going to say bad things to you.
Kajol / Film Actress
Awful
Bad Mood
Goddess
Handle
Mean
Mood
Nasty
People
Scream
Talking
Things
Feel
Like
Really
Because
Come
Going
Had
After
Face
Get
Am
Bad
Day
Times
Say
Point
Tolerant
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There's a difference between being ignorant and being stupid... For me, an ignorant person is someone who makes the wrong decision or a bad choice because he or she does not have the proper facts. If you give that person the facts and the proper information you have alleviated that ignorance, and they make the right decision.
Daryl Davis / Musician
Decision
Facts
Ignorance
Information
Right Decision
Stupid
Wrong Decision
Person
Because
Being
Make
Does
Bad
Someone
Between
He
Choice
Difference
Wrong
Give
He Or She
Right
Proper
She
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We always make so many excuses for ourselves - 'I'm so busy, I'm so tired, I don't want to do it.' You know? 'I'm passionate about it, but I'm not going to be the person that changes things.' Why do we tell ourselves that? We totally could. There are so many people who are making so much change just because they're passionate.
Cameron Boyce /
Busy
Passionate
Tired
Want
Things
Person
Because
Totally
Always
Why
Much
Make
Changes
Could
Excuses
Ourselves
Just Because
So Many People
Tell
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I run, but boxing conditioning is different, so you have to get used to running in the ring. Boxing movements are very different. Swimming is one of the best because every single muscle is working. I swim a lot. I train very hard at things that mimic boxing. I have to do mostly sport-specific training, such as lots of sparring.
Wladimir Klitschko / Professional Boxer
Running
Best
Sports
Boxing
Conditioning
Different
Hard
Single
Sparring
Swim
Swimming
Train
Training
Used
Because
Muscle
Very
Lot
Ring
Mimic
Run
Every
Working
Mostly
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I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists - Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.
Billie Eilish /
Dad
Different
Grew
Happened
Horrible
Listening
Sick
Just
Because
Lot
Make
Artists
Beatles
Loved
Him
Would
Production
Park
Sarah
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I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.
Fergie / Singer-Songwriter
Confidence
Great
Ballet
Comfort
Fashion
Mood
Shoes
Weekend
Change Great Your
Feel
Because
Change Always Your
Always
Change Great Always
Loved
Woman
Lover
Definitely
How
High
Even
Express
Flat
Great Way
Wear
Her
Herself
Outfit
Pair
Right
Shoe
Slip
Soft
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There are three kinds of yeses. There's commitment, confirmation, and counterfeit. People are most used to giving the counterfeit yes because they've been trapped by the confirmation yes so many times. So the way you master no is understanding what really happens when somebody says 'no.' When yes is commitment, no is protection.
Christopher Voss /
Commitment
Confirmation
Counterfeit
Giving
Happens
People
Protection
Three
Trapped
Understanding
Used
Way
Most
Really
Because
Somebody
Been
Many
Master
Times
Says
Yes
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Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.
Marian Keyes / Novelist
Relationship
Amount
Butterfly
Flower
Orange
Peeling
Thinking
Words
Person
Like
Because
Thing
Actions
Only
Doing
Butterflies
Flowers
Ever
Small
Measured
Others
Some
Small Thing
Truly
Using
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When my hair was dark for 'House,' that was the hardest to maintain because it was like every three weeks my light roots would start coming in. And you can't really just dye your hair one color brown because then it looks like a helmet on television, so then I had to have four colors of brown woven into my hair every three weeks.
Jennifer Morrison / Actress
Brown
Color
Dark
Four
Hardest
Helmet
House
Light
Looks
Roots
Television
Three
Because
Then
Had
Weeks
Every
Coming
Dye
Would
Maintain
Start
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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs / Entrepreneur
Change
Death
Inspirational
Best
Best Job
Destination
Heaven
Invention
People
Share
Should
Single
Stanford University
Way
Life Change Best
Life Best Death
Because
Die
Go
Very
Agent
Get
Make
Who
Clears
Old
Escaped
Even
Likely
Wants
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It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.
William J. Clinton / 42Nd U.s. President
Education
Jobs
Opportunity
Advancing
Creating
Discrimination
Economic
Empowerment
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Growth
Ignorance
Increase
Infrastructure
Poverty
Research
Technological
Turns
Wealth
Education Good Opportunity
Because
Both
Out
Good Jobs
Investments
Morally
Right
Restrict
Scientific
While
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The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button - it's all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life.
Sean M. Carroll / Scientist
Benjamin Button
Born
Crucial
Entropy
Remember
Thinking
Tomorrow
Yesterday
Young
Like
Because
Go
Then
Always
Around
Grow
Button
Through
How
Fact
Older
Other
Role
Something
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This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Heard
People
Position
Seeing
Things Happen
Voice
Things
Feel
Like
Because
Talk
Change People Feel
Change People Way
Stand
Affect
Being
Any
Down
Happen
Put
Platform
Where
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We are in the middle of a big swamp of ignorance that is taught by a lot of nonsense, propaganda, absurdity, amalgams. I have a hard time listening to any speech. You feel like you want to stop the TV every two seconds to rephrase them, because it's lie after lie, turning stuff upside down, and you can't follow that. That's the trap.
Raoul Peck / Filmmaker
Absurdity
Hard
Ignorance
Listening
Middle
Nonsense
Propaganda
Seconds
Speech
Stuff
Taught
Two
Upside Down
Feel
Because
Lot
Big
After
Any
Them
Turning
Every
Down
Lie
Follow
Hard Time
Stop
Swamp
Trap
Upside
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No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.
Jim Yong Kim / Physician
Jobs
Good
Feedback
Goodness
Humility
Ideas
Leader
Matter
People
Thinking
Everybody
Most
Will
Job
Because
Thing
Me
Get
Leadership Good Me
Around
Try
Continue
How
Else
Everybody Else
Fundamental
Help
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The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
Kerry Washington / Actress
Family
Women
Men
Black
Black Community
Black Family
Breakdown
Children
Community
Economics
Married
Men And Women
Might
Order
Slavery
Taken
Love Men Women
Because
Love Family Women
Allowed
Get
Began
Could
Down
Get Married
Legally
Literally
Maintain
River
Sold
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What's cool about the beatboxing is I was so afraid to sing in front of my peers, my parents, anybody. I just wouldn't do it. So in sixth grade, I would turn to beatboxing because it made me feel better. Like, I can beatbox 'Drop It Like It's Hot.' Doing that a bunch of times eventually gave me the confidence to sing in front of people.
Charlie Puth /
Confidence
Cool
Bunch
Hot
Made
Peers
Feel
Because
Afraid
Anybody
Doing
Sixth
Drop
Times
Eventually
Front
Gave
Grade
Parents
Sing
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We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it.
Chamath Palihapitiya / Venture Capitalist
Truth
Empty
Fake
Likes
Our Lives
Popularity
Signals
Term
Thumbs
Vacant
Really
Because
More
Get
Around
Did
Before
You
Curate
Short
Even
Hearts
Instead
Leaves
Up
Perceived
Rewarded
Sense
Value
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A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.
Pele / Soccer Player
Confidence
Great
Colleagues
Guy
Important
Player
Team
Thinking
Because
Very
Lot
Does
Becomes
He
Them
Encourage
Field
Forward
Give
Great Player
His
Leaders
Well
Scores
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Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I'm no longer alone.
Edward Snowden / System Administrator
Alone
Amount
Individual
Inequality
Inhumanity
Intervening
Intimidating
Tolerate
Person
Because
Consequences
Big
Away
Every
Too
Crossed
Each
Each Individual
Small
Limit
Line
Longer
Moment
Some
Remembers
Seemed
Where
Witnessed
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From my point of view, it is not the coach who becomes world champion, it is a team. Not just the players who played, but the whole squad, and also the team behind the team. Because if you want to achieve success, the whole team has to work perfectly, like a machine, and all the pieces of the puzzle need to fit together into one picture.
Joachim Low / Football Team Manager
Work
Achieve
Champion
Fit
Pieces
Point Of View
Squad
Team
Together
Want
Whole
Success Work Together
Because
Need
Picture
Also
Played
Becomes
Behind
Coach
Machine
Perfectly
Point
Puzzle
View
World Champion
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In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective immune system is weakened, we become more susceptible to viruses that are part of every culture because they're part of human nature - fear-mongering, scapegoating, conspiracy theories, and demagoguery.
Arianna Huffington / Author
Burnout
Conspiracy
Culture
Demagoguery
Human Nature
Immune
Resilience
Susceptible
Viruses
Because
Becomes
Run
Every
Part
Collective
Itself
Compromised
Down
Human
Fueled
National
System
Theories
Weakened
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I have three goalkeepers who really inspired me. Jens Lehmann was my idol because he played for Schalke and was really progressive in the way he developed the position in Germany. I also have a lot of respect for all that Oliver Kahn achieved with the national team. Outside Germany, I would add that Edwin van der Sar was a big role model.
Manuel Neuer / Soccer Player
Respect
Add
Germany
Inspired
National Team
Position
Progressive
Team
Three
Way
Really
Because
Respect Me Way
Lot
Achieved
Big
Me
Also
Who
Played
He
Developed
Model
Would
Idol
National
Oliver
Outside
Role
Role Model
Van
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My mom let me play in her clothes, wear makeup, and I had high heels from a thrift store. My mom tells me that the only reason she let me dress in her clothes is because she couldn't afford any toys, and it seemed entertaining enough and kept her from having to buy me anything, 'cause everything I wanted was in her makeup box or wardrobe.
Sharon Needles / Drag Queen
Mom
Clothes
Enough
Entertaining
Heels
High Heels
Makeup
Reason
Thrift
Toys
Wanted
Mom Dress Me
Because
Had
Afford
Any
Box
Buy
Cause
High
Having
Wear
Her
Seemed
She
Store
Tells
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A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know?
Gotye / Multi-Instrumentalist
History
Aspect
Brain
Collecting
Combining
Discovering
Discovery
May
Sampling
Surprise
Thinking
Love Music Always
Because
Love History Music
Why
Big Part
Part
Existed
Involves
Just Kind
Making
Parts
Recording
Searching
Unlock
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Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature.
Monica Raymund / Actress
Court
Different
Everyday
Everyday Life
Felony
Girlfriend
Human Nature
Tempted
White
Ask
Little
Person
Because
Life Love Nature
Fat
Being
Charged
Part
Different Reasons
Human
Lie
Look
Wearing
Her
Makes
Reasons
She
Sweater
White Lies
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Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And what you've got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that's a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk.
Jimmy Iovine / Entrepreneur
Frightened
Little Bit
Mind
Powerful
Risk
Little
Because
Fear Your Mind
Once
Very
Going
Get
Everyone
Try
Bit
Fear Mind Your
Deal
How
Enter
Excite
Got
Trick
Instead
Learn
Something
Starts
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Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.
Wale / Rapper
Girl
Dumb
Healthy
Issues
Real
Real Life
Sexy
Smart
Solve
Together
Trying
Because
Much
Argue
Bad
Woman
Life Together Look
Conversations
Look
Hand
Spend
Makes
Other
Right
Problems
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Business
Bankruptcy
Credit
Credit Card
Debt
Enormous
Relieved
Too Much
Life Your Rest
Because
Life Business Your
Much
Almost
Get
Never
Out
Card
Through
Too
Declare
Designed
Student
Say
Rest
Far
Individuals
Larger
Than
Trap
Which
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The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.
Michio Kaku / Physicist
Jobs
Work
Future
Accountants
Agents
Blue
Blue Collar
Different
Garden
Low Level
Recognition
Robots
White Collar
Workers
Will
Job
Because
Work Will See
Future Will See
Future Work Will
Perform
Those
Same
Broker
Cannot
Every
Consist
Still
Losers
Goes
Making
Pattern
See
Sense
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Camera lies all the time. It's all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you... the moment you've made a choice, you're lying about something larger. 'Lying' is an ugly word. I don't mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
Richard Avedon / Photographer
Artist
Lying
Made
Mean
Paint
Picks
Ugly
Because
Any
Does
Same
Write
Camera
Choice
Choose
Say
Lie
Instead
Word
Larger
Moment
Photographers
Something
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I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.
Kate Forsyth / Author
Beauty
Courage
Girl
Break
Court
Curse
Fairy
Frogs
Haunting
Hundred
Royal
Steadfastness
Tales
Years
Because
Nothing
Anything
Boy
Asleep
Castle
Set
Fairy Tales
Giant
Happen
Her
Hide
Hundred Years
Magical
Outwit
Where
Worlds
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I'm so stupid because I refuse to think that I'm getting older. I get up in the morning, and it's like, 'La, la, la, I'm so pretty.' I still mingle with a lot with young people. I even go to college campuses to talk to them because I know how they think. They don't think I'm boring, either. They think I'm cool, but I want them to think I'm hot!
Charo /
Cool
Boring
College
Getting Older
Refuse
Stupid
Young
Because
Talk
Lot
Get
Pretty
Them
College Campuses
How
Either
Even
Still
Older
La
Mingle
Young People
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The reason that we're seeing so many people flee the Left - I like to call them liberal refugees, like myself - is because they do not allow you to think freely. If you agree with them 95 percent and disagree on 5 percent, you are essentially excommunicated. You're not allowed to be a liberal anymore. You're not allowed to be a Democrat anymore.
Candace Owens /
Agree
Democrat
Disagree
Left
Percent
Reason
Seeing
Because
Allow
Anymore
Them
Call
Essentially
Flee
Freely
Liberal
Refugees
So Many People
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Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back because all the same tests would be the same result.
Ricky Gervais / Comedian
Science
Book
Destroyed
Fiction
Holy
Tests
Thousand
Thousand Years
Years
Like
Just
Because
Come
Any
Back
Same
Constantly
Take
Every
Fact
Holy Book
Would
Proved
Result
Something
Took
Whereas
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We are estranged from our own deeper physiology because we are no longer in contact with nature. Instead, we are controlling nature with air pollution, heating, technology. But you have to know you have a depth within yourself which needs to be stimulated. If it doesn't get stimulated it becomes weaker, like a muscle that's not being used any more.
Wim Hof /
Technology
Air
Air Pollution
Contact
Deeper
Depth
Heating
Needs
Physiology
Pollution
Used
Yourself
Within
Because
Muscle
More
Being
Get
Any
Own
Becomes
Being Used
Instead
Longer
Stimulated
Weaker
Which
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The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.
Greta Thunburg /
Burning
Climate
Crisis
Dependent
Destroying
Economic Growth
Ecosystems
Emissions
Everlasting
Greenhouse Gases
Hardest
Order
Because
Totally
Both
Create
Current
Easiest
Ever
Still
Faced
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Gases
Greenhouse
Must
Issue
Thereby
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