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I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

~David Hockney

Topics: Activity Actually Draw Drawing Like Mean Time You

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I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up on 14 years now and the level of activity that's taking place now is a culmination of a slow cooker approach to as opposed to a microwave.

~David Oyelowo

Topics: Activity Actor Approach Been Coming Culmination Down Easier Go Level Lot Microwave Nice Now Opportunities Opposed Order Place Really Slow Starting Taking Things Turned Ultimately Up Wanted Work Years

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There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

~David Remnick

Topics: Activity Bred Brutal Corruption Field Free Institution Mafia Most Russia Single Sort World-Class

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My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.

~David Rubenstein

Topics: About Activity America Circumstances Economically Employee Encourage Father Good Good Thing Kind Made Modest More Never Office People Post Post Office Rise Should Than Thing Think Up Very Well Worked Year I Think A Good Thing

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Though sporting a hideous mustache is in no way comparable to the physical pain and mental suffering men with these diseases endure, Movember still forces participants to challenge their manhood on a daily basis. Growing a moustache for men's cancer isn't as feel-good an activity as running a marathon for a cure.

~David Sax

Topics: Activity Basis Cancer Challenge Comparable Cure Daily Daily Basis Diseases Endure Forces Growing Hideous Manhood Marathon Men Mental Moustache Mustache Pain Participants Physical Physical Pain Running Still Suffering Though Way

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Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

~David Souter

Topics: Activity Aggregate Commerce Congress Effect Legislate Power Regard Substantial

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Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Actions Activity Altering Carbon Cycle Earth Human Human Activity Just Our Upsetting Water

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I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career in software development. Which, by the way, is a very creative field. I equate it more to kinetic sculpture than anything else, as an activity.

~David Wroblewski

Topics: About Activity Anything Anything Else Aside Career Creative Development Else Equate Field Had More Sculpture Set Software Subsequently Than Theater Then Very Way Which Writing

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Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

~Dean Kamen

Topics: Accessible Activity Attract Competition Competitions Engineering Format Frankly Fun Healthy Kids Kind Might Obsess Over Put Rewarding Science See Seem Sort Technology

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Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face the challenges of budget cuts, mandated tests, rushed lunch periods, and a decrease in time for physical activity.

~Dean Ornish

Topics: Activity Budget Challenges Childhood Cuts Day Decrease Educators Every Every Day Face Front Front Lines Lines Lunch Obesity Periods Personnel Physical Physical Activity Rushed School Tests Time Work

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