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- Nov 07, 2020
Dozens Quotes
When one just isn't enough to say it.
Some things pile up without anyone planning it that way, like a writer's habit of starting a fresh notebook instead of keeping one steady journal, ending up with a small collection of half-used pages. Others use the word for scale in public life, like decades of legislative work that added up to more laws than anyone expected.
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- Aspiring
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- Nov 07, 2020
At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.
- Pause
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's a simple guideline: if five names or fewer are cc'd, just go nuts and hit 'reply all.' But if more than five folks appear in the cc line, pause. Give it a thought. Some people are promiscuous and cc dozens of people who don't need to know each other's business.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple computer in a garage in Palo Alto, it heralded the beginning of the PC revolution that ultimately dealt a death-blow to dozens of older companies.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Danish Girl' was published in 2000. Then it, too, would disappear, as most books do. It fell out of print almost everywhere. I wrote other books and, as an editor, worked on dozens more. Yet always, Lili stayed with me.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doctors will prescribe medicines for a particular disease but, as a side effect, those medications will work to prevent dozens of others.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're building a business, you want to focus and deliver excellence at what you do. This simply cannot be done when you are launching multiple ventures, dozens of new products, and selling everywhere and anywhere at the same time.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Android phones are sold by dozens of hardware makers, the biggest being Samsung, Motorola, and HTC. There are lots of different form factors. Slider phones. Phones with keyboards. Big screens, small screens, midsize screens.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an actor is a lot more involved than many people realize; there are hundreds of ways to play any character. Even for a stylized bad guy, there are 4 or 5 different personalities I can play off the top of my head without thinking - better and more experienced actors can do dozens or hundreds.
- Bicycle
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- Nov 07, 2020
About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020