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If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense. Lyall Watson
You Challenge Invent Sense Group Living Unlikely Small Small Group Exist Common Common Sense Elephants Things Belong Credulity
I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive. Lynn Nottage
Woman Women Mother Thought Invent Warrior Pursuing Became Always Survive Order Stories Interested To Survive Who Lives
You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims. MC Hammer
You Invent Wheel Want Might Company
We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin. Mads Mikkelsen
God Satan Invent Other Side Later Ourselves Minutes About Something Ten Ten Minutes Him Because Ask Then Fascinating Why Coin Need
Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself. Marcel Duchamp
Myself Great You Invent Giving Think Too Kick Though Easy Follow Instead Merely Because Tradition Been Trying Done May Really Even Expressing
How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history? Margaret MacMillan
Best Great History Better Invent Action Playwright Dramas Thousand Someone Recorded Throughout Caesar Like Catherine How Exist Than Human Stories Galileo Centuries Create Many Even Novelist Florence
Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant tradition. Marilyn Ferguson
Light Invent Our Our Lives Relevant Having Steps Most Without Tradition Discover Us Create Next Map Lives
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history. Mario Vargas Llosa
History You Reality Invent Facts Without Limited Real Essence Being Fiction Manipulate Disloyal
Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent. Mario Vargas Llosa
Time Me Book Invent Has-Been Facts Study Adventure Period Also Document Been Fantasize Certain Dedicated Each Traveling
Whenever ideas fail, men invent words. Martin H. Fischer
Words Men Invent Fail Ideas Whenever
I'm against all those people who say that there's still something to invent in football. Massimiliano Allegri
People Invent Say Those Something Football Still Against Who
In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on. Matthew Stewart
Business School Behavior Invent Strategy Forced Courses Been Subjects Order Produce Organizational Business School Professors
It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm writing fiction, I must believe it to be true, or I can see no point in it. Michael Morpurgo
Me Confidence Writing Be True Invent Own Believe Must See Having No Point Gives Point True Know Veracity Without Fiction
I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off. Michael Morpurgo
Reality Book World Invent Reading Comprehend Write Soon Read Does Got Exist Off Cannot Realise Either Which Fantasy Really Roots Switch
If I need something, I'll invent it. Mickey Spillane
Invent Something Need
The Koran did not invent or introduce patriarchy. Muhammad Khalid Masud
Invent Introduce Koran Did Patriarchy
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. Murray Kempton
Government Invent Own Philosophies Demands Convenience Explain Function
Cryptocurrencies are an emergent property of the Internet - almost a fifth protocol in the Internet suite. If Satoshi Nakomoto did not exist, it would still be necessary to invent them. Naval Ravikant
Property Internet Invent Suite Would Almost Protocol Still Exist Did Them Fifth Satoshi Necessary
We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads. Neil deGrasse Tyson
People Thought Invent Build Building Interstate Ways System Angeles Roads Highways New Because Priority Doing Los Los Angeles Go West West Coast York New York Places Persons Coast Connect Multiple Things
My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves. Newt Gingrich
People Challenge Invent Approaches Systems Republicans Themselves Help Help People
I enjoy a third act, and I like stories with ending. A lot of my frustration with serialized storytelling is a lot of shows don't have a third act. They have an endless second act, and then they find out it's their last year and often have to hustle to invent a third act, but they were never necessarily organically meaning to begin with. Nic Pizzolatto
Frustration Ending Invent Year Enjoy Out Find Hustle Never Like Were Lot Begin Endless Often Stories Storytelling Meaning Organically Then Act Shows Necessarily Second Last Third Last Year
Vanity is not having facelifts if you're ugly. Those people who say: 'Oh, I'd never dream of having anything done!' That's rude. It's rude, to other people, to not try and look your best; to not try and stir things up, to not reinvent... or just invent... it's one's duty to not get stuffy. Nicholas Haslam
Best You People Ugly Try Rude Invent Duty Other Say Those Dream Vanity Having Never Look Stir Up Get Done Oh Just Anything Your Who Reinvent Things
Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best. Nick Park
Best Will Invent Those Kids Bored Purely Something Pots Make Boxes Tape Bands Wallace Often Children Elastic Urge Created Cardboard
The Citizens United ruling did not invent special-interest spending; it enables corporations and unions to advocate directly on behalf of a candidate rather than running more subtle 'issue ads.' Nina Easton
Invent Unions Spending Corporations Ruling Citizens Running Rather More Directly Ads Advocate Enables Issue Than Behalf Did Candidate Subtle United
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. Oliver Evans
Communication Invent Same Thing Think Other Alike Without Frequently Subject Same Any Happens Persons Reasoning Mechanical Each Right Thing Two
When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece. Oscar Hijuelos
You Emotions Invent Relevance Possible Hopefully More Write Emotional Factual Piece Also Sort Nonfiction Very Fiction Whereas Pack Pertinent Bring
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