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Passion is born of vague hopes.
Charles Handy
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Author
Born
Passion
Vague
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Leia follows me like a vague smell.
Carrie Fisher
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Actress
Follow Me
Leia
Smell
Vague
Follows
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A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend
Joss Whedon
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Screenwriter
Disclaimers
Vague
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I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.
Walter Kirn
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Novelist
Dream
Bad Dream
Vague
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It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
Freeman Dyson
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Physicist
Mindset
Vague
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I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired.
Neil Gaiman
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Author
Amiable
Messy
Vague
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I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.
Thomas Haden Church
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Actor
Stuff
Vague
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One must confront vague ideas with clear images.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Film Director
Clear
Ideas
Vague
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I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.
Sarah Dessen
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Writer
Middle
Undefined
Vague
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Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.
Andrew Bird
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Musician
Appreciate
Song
Vague
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.
C. S. Lewis
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Novelist
Direct
Long
Vague
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Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.
Harold Brodkey
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Writer
Halls
Vague
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All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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Philosopher
Definite
Evolution
Vague
Proceeds
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Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?
Veronica Roth
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Novelist
Ifs
Vague
Want
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If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.
Susan Andersen
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Writer
Nice
Say Anything
Vague
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You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.
Leonard Woolf
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Author
Desire
Moon
Vague
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Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.
Richard P. Feynman
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Physicist
Prove
Theory
Vague
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The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.
Thomas Lennon
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Actor
Vague
Way
Guaranteed
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Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.
Johnny Depp
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Actor
Inspirational
Guitar
Locked
Puberty
Rooms
Vague
Played
Literally
Room
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
J. L. Austin
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Philosopher
Fake People
Use
Vague
Properly
Uses
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The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Aleister Crowley
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Poet
Doe
Enormous
Evil
Pious
Pretense
Vague
Vagueness
Exist
Menacing
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
C. S. Lewis
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Novelist
Direct
Vague
Prefer
Implement
Word
Plain
Promises
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The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
John C. Crosby
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Advertising
Concrete
Law
Promise
Vague
Avoid
Cultivate
First Law
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The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Stuart Chase
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Economist
Advertising
Concrete
Promise
Vague
Avoid
Cultivate
First Law
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When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
John Updike
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Novelist
New York
Easter
Aim
East
Vague
Writing
Spot
Toward
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I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.
Christopher Nolan
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Film Director
Movies
Becoming
Felt
Thinking
Unreal
Vague
More And More
Sense
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Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Author
Advantage
Perceive
Vague
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A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
Ugo Betti
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Judge
Doctors
Police
Vague
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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Laurence Sterne
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Novelist
Marriage
Alarms
Courtship
Numbers
Quiet
Understood
Vague
Vagueness
Alarm
Attentions
Consists
Nor
Pointed
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe
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Author
Death
Inspirational
Life
Best
Boundaries
Ends
Thoughtful
Vague
Life Death Where
Life Best Death
Begins
Divide
Say
Other
Shadowy
Where
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Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
Theodore Dreiser
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Novelist
Feelings
Links
Mean
Shadow
Together
Vague
Little
Words
Purposes
Shadows
Volumes
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I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.
David Cook
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Singer-Songwriter
Ambiguous
Song
Talking
Thinking
Vague
Good Your May
Good Song Good Song
Good Song
Help
Performance
Story
Tells
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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John Tukey
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Statistician
Answers
Made
Precise
Statistics
Vague
Always
Answer
Approximate
Often
Wrong
Exact
Far
Right
Question
Right Question
Than
Which
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I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller
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Author
Sad
Breeze
Ex Boyfriend
Flower
Positive Attitude
Vague
Yearning
Touch
Among
Flowers
Times
Limitations
Perhaps
Seldom
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To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
Edgar Lee Masters
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Poet
Boat
Desire
Longing
Madness
May
Restlessness
Sea
Torture
Vague
Afraid
End
Without
Put
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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
J. P. Morgan
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Financier
Science
Concrete
Difficulty
Form
Mistake
No Problem
Problem
Simple
Vague
Changing
Element
Essential
Reduced
Solved
Specific
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My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.
Stephen Hawking
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Physicist
Medicine
Physics
Research
Scientist
Tropical
Vague
Assumed
Chose
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
A. R. Ammons
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Poet
Answers
Disorder
Vague
What Is Poetry
Ask
Words
Answer
Correction
Expect
Linguistic
Question
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I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.
Dan Gilroy
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Screenwriter
Alone
Eight
Fog
Hours
My Time
Seven
Subconscious
Vague
Week
Alone Time Work
Days
Alone Work Time
Sort
Spend
No Sense
Room
Sense
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When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
Paul Mccartney
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Musician
Ideas
Improvisation
Song
Vague
Writing
Bit
Microphone
Studio
Sit
Step
Vague Idea
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We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
Adam Driver
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Actor
Religion
Giving
Terrible
Vague
Your People Parents
Parents
Meaning
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
Kate Chopin
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Author
Chaotic
Disturbing
Murmuring
Soul
Tangled
Tumult
Vague
Beginning
Ever
Emerge
Exceedingly
Few
Necessarily
Perish
Souls
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My sense is that you can make a film under almost any circumstances. As long as someone has a vague idea of what he's doing, something distinctive will emerge. That, to me, is what film making is all about.
Paul Morrissey
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Circumstances
Distinctive
Vague
Me Long Doing
Me Long Will
Any Circumstances
Long Me Will
Emerge
Vague Idea
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You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. It's specific hours set aside every day for certain things.
Kumail Nanjiani
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Stand-Up Comedian
Discipline
Vague
Aside
Certain Things
Motivate
Specific
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I grew up in Alice, Texas, a small oil town with one theater that only showed Roy Rogers movies. So when I got the role, I had never even seen a Bond film and had only had a vague notion about the idea of a Bond girl.
Lois Chiles
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Girl
Bond Girl
Film
Grew
Notion
Oil
Texas
Vague
Alice
Seen
Bond
Idea
Small
Town
Rogers
Roy
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
Kate Atkinson
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Writer
Ambience
Book
Ideas
Vague
Writing
Apart
Ending
Probable
Title
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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Alexis De Tocqueville
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Historian
Assembly
Democratic
Goal
March
Perplexed
Seeming
Thinking
Vague
Great Always Something
Debates
Dragged
Frequently
Intended
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I think the first team I ever played for was a YMCA team, probably around when I was seven years old. And really I have vague memories of it. I think, at that age, you're just trying to make sure the ball stays in bounds.
Maya Moore
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Basketball Player
Bounds
Memories
Seven
Vague
Ball
Stays
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I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.
Mary Roach
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Author
Anxiety
Forgotten
Lists
Overwhelming
Vague
Brink
Write
Number
Level
Lose
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My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.
Nick Cave
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Musician
Form
Giving
Muse
Song
Vague
Wife
Wife Me Sometimes
Around
Hang
Presence
Wherever
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