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I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.

~Ayad Akhtar

Topics: About Art Audience Avoid Constraints Creative Engagement Excited Expectation Feeling Industry Inside Kind Longer Making Me Respond Self-Expression Should Some Started Thing Understand Way Work World

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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Avoid Been Behave Best Given He How Inclined Learns Less Person Punished Punishment Way Who

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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Active Avoid Being Black Carefully Chose Feminists Foreign Friends Marxist Mistaken More Performance Poets Politically Professors Sellout Structural Students

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I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

~Barbara Kruger

Topics: As Far As Avoid Complexities Deal Degree Difficulty Far Goes High Life Power Presentation Purposely Social Social Life Try Visual

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I am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were at a dermatologist, and this dermatologist suggested to me that I wanted to avoid wrinkles. Those wrinkles show that I have laughed a lot in my life, why should I want to erase that? Why would I erase the traces of my life which I loved?

~Barbara Sukowa

Topics: Am Avoid Discussion Erase Get Going Had Laughed Life Lot Loved Me My Life Plastic Plastic Surgery Should Show Son Suggested Surgery Those Traces Want Wanted Were Which Why Would Wrinkles Younger I Am I Am What I Am

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Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.

~Barry Ritholtz

Topics: Again Any Avoid Engage Errors Happened Investors Learn Luck Making Many Me Mistakes Never Own Prefer Pretend Rather Retention Same Selective Sort Tend Than Them

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I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure.

~Barry Sanders

Topics: Avoid Concrete Could Down Each Fast Fields Get Kansas Lot Lots Make Open Other Running Street Sure Tackle Tackling Taken Trying Vacant Were Will You

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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

~Bear Grylls

Topics: Avoid Because Clean Dairy Diet Down Eat Healthy Lean Meat Much Nothing Slow Surprising Too Too Much Try You

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Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

~Beatrice Webb

Topics: Avoid Bring Classes Fact Great Individuals Learn Misery Others Ourselves Trying

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In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.

~Bee Wilson

Topics: Alibi Alone Avoid Big Big Fan Bliss Book Charm Circumstances Class Cooking Eating Eggs Evening Family Fan Gives Go Largely Me Often Once Return Right Silence Soldiers Sunday Supper Whose Yoga

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