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It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

~Christopher Dodd

Topics: American Appear Easy Eat Food Forget Shelf Supermarket

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I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: About Am Appear Awareness Become Earnest How Interested Lose Many Notion Obsessed Other People Sense Things True World I Am

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When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as Spinal Tap or as The Folksmen - people see you as characters walking out of a movie. And you appear in public, then, to play, it's a very schizophrenic thing.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Appear Been Character Characters Concerts Done Happened Movie Out People Play Public Schizophrenic See Spinal Tap Then Thing Very Walking You

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So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.

~Christopher Mccandless

Topics: Adventurous Appear Because Change Circumstances Conditioned Conformity Conservation Damaging Give Initiative Life Live Many May Mind More Nothing Peace Peace Of Mind People Reality Security Situation So Many People Spirit Take Unhappy Which Will Within

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In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: About Appear Book Cancer Caring Choke Comedy Coming Diagnosed Dying Film Had His Lung Market Meant Mother My Own Own Plot Privately Promote Public Save Son Torture Trying Version While

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I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

~Claire Mccaskill

Topics: Against Any Appear Compromise Hang Middle Moderate Moderates More Now Out Party Regularity Republican Republican Party Right Some Try Vote Welcoming

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The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

~Clarence Budington Kelland

Topics: Appear Brilliant Contrast Dull Duty Speakers Succeeding Will

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Have you ever noticed some people are able to stay organized while getting a massive quantity of work accomplished, while others appear to be busy but never actually produce results? Time management is the key to becoming a successful entrepreneur.

~Clay Clark

Topics: Able Accomplished Actually Appear Becoming Busy Entrepreneur Ever Getting Key Management Massive Never Noticed Organized Others People Produce Quantity Results Some Some People Stay Successful Time Time Management While Work You

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To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

~Cliff Shaw

Topics: Along Appear Capable Communication Coordination Getting Handle Information Integrated Must Own Personality Problems Processing Programming Single System Users

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In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which the genre's leading practitioners contributed what they considered their finest. Alas, literature the stories ain't; they appear more like fossils from a spent mine.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Alas Appear Best Considered Entitled Finest Fossils Genre Leading Like Literature Mine More Published Spent Stories Story Western Which

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