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I'm a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I've gotta still get my studies in and all. I love to learn. But I also love to do stop motion animation with my little Lego figures. I love to play around on the computer with that.

~Atticus Shaffer

Topics: Admit Also Animation Around Computer Course Figures Games Get Gotta Huge Learn Lego Little Love Motion Nerd Play Read Still Stop Studies Video Video Games I Love

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Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Allowed Apart Authority Chose Class Course Did Everything Fell Figures Forget Gym Important Kids Last Made Minds More Our Parents Put Soon Strongest Suits Supposed Them Those Us Values Were Where Work

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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.

~Barbara Sukowa

Topics: Actually Being Bloody Could Detective Figure Figures Hands His Imagine Like More Out Puts Scientist Someone Things Who

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People try to sell a fantasy with beauty campaigns. Overly Photoshopped, perfect, white, thin figures are a standard that most people still hold as beautiful because the industry says so.

~Barbie Ferreira

Topics: Beautiful Beauty Because Campaigns Fantasy Figures Hold Industry Most Overly People Perfect Says Sell Standard Still Thin Try White

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If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.

~Barney Oliver

Topics: Above Colonization Demanding Energy Far Figures Indicate Might Motive Obvious Time Travel

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In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.

~Barry Unsworth

Topics: Destiny Figures Generation Grand Heroes History Men My Generation Nation Quintessential Taught Terms Whom

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Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

~Ben Goldacre

Topics: Amazing Amazing Things Emerges Facts Figures Happen Individual Information Larger Linked Meaning Pieces Produce Pull Things Things Happen Together You

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I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.

~Benedict Wong

Topics: Empire Everybody Explorer Feel Figures Get Grandson Historical Involved Khan Like Place Polo Ruler Trading Wanted I Feel I Feel Like

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That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

~Bob Edwards

Topics: About Been Evaporate Event Figures Get Interviews Issues News Off Once Passes Problem Prominent Radio Tail Talked The Problem With Urgency Work You Your

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The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

~Bob Woodward

Topics: Cloud Dissipate Doubt Figures Never Political Remain Surrounds Tends

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