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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make… — Rachel Joyce
Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered… — Jack Gleeson
Take care of difficult calls or emails as quickly as possible. Procrastinating just makes it harder; getting them done gives a big boost of relieved… — Gretchen Rubin
At the Centers for Disease Control, I rose up fairly quickly into management positions. The first team I led there included many people who had… — Helene D. Gayle
In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit. — Brendan I. Koerner
Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop down a column, and lift… — Brendan I. Koerner
Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas… — Alice Oswald
We never went into a game that we did not feel sure of winning, and when we lost, we blamed it on hard luck or… — Joe Kelley
My arm came back just as quickly as it went sore on me in 1915. I awoke one morning and learned I could throw without… — Dazzy Vance
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of… — Dinaw Mengestu
Since news breaks on digg very quickly, we face the same issues as newspapers which print a retraction for a story that was misreported. The… — Kevin Rose
Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how it evolves over… — Robert Mankoff
We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human… — Stephen Hawking
I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how… — Oscar Isaac
I have many friends in Special Forces, and the amazing thing about these guys is how quickly they can read someone. — Mike Vogel
Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear… — Susan Holloway Scott
Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural… — James Stephens
Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pearl Harbor or 9/11. — David Hoffman
In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that the United States was likely to… — Martin Jacques
Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop… — Joe McNally

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