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Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

~Alanis Morissette

Topics: Being Come Contemplating Day Go Happen Just Lyrics Song Studio Up Whatever Will Wind

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Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

~Amanda Lindhout

Topics: Brings Christmas Contemplating Far Home Isolated Own Pain Unique You

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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Agreeable Another Arising Contemplating Happiness Misery Sensation

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Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.

~Antony Gormley

Topics: Actually Compare Contemplating Critics Easy Forget Joy Judgment Looking Maybe Much Own Professional Sake See Think Too Too Much Very Whole I Think

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Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplating my age, or losing friends to illness - I'll start to chip away at it. If you can poke holes in it, it's not as formidable; it's not as scary, and ultimately, it becomes another truth.

~Billy Crystal

Topics: Age Annoying Another Away Becomes Bothering Chip Contemplating Formidable Friends Guy Holes Illness Interacting Losing Me Poke Restaurant Scary Start Truth Ultimately Whatever You

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And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.

~Billy Tauzin

Topics: Again Back Citizens Coming Contemplating Heard Held Intent Levees Making New New Orleans Orleans Place Process Really Rebuilding Regardless Secure Shape Take Then Think Whether Who Would I Think

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Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

~Donna Rice

Topics: Because Before Believed Between Boat Choice Contemplating Destiny Difficult Faced Happiness He Him His However Me Personal Political President Pursuing Running Separate Wife

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I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.

~Dustin Clare

Topics: Also Building Contemplating Farm Farmer Fish Had Honest My Own Own To Be Honest Wanted You

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The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

~Eliza Haywood

Topics: Condition Contemplating Happy His Hit Infinitely Lucky May Misfortunes More Possibly Relief Some Thought Unhappy

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People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

~Elizabeth Gaskell

Topics: Always Believe Charms Contemplating Faults Flatter Individual Just Just As Much May Minds Much Other People Present Themselves Thinking Virtues World

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