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While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Stephen Hawking
Mathematics
Women
People
Physics
Better
Behavior
Understanding
Universe
Too
Else
Tell
Solve
Tick
Particularly
Because
Makes
Equations
How
Began
Than
May
Human
Human Behavior
Anyone
Anyone Else
Predicting
While
Far
Us
Much
Use
Many
Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would win. I never came back for the money, because I didn't need it. The adulation I was getting anyway in other spheres. But I'm a guy who likes to see how close he can get to the edge of the mountain - that's what makes me tick.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Me
Money
Win
Comeback
Made
Looking
Looking Back
Edge
Too
Other
Back
Spheres
Would
See
Percent
Guy
Adulation
Never
He
Tick
Likes
Sure
Because
Makes
How
Came
Yes
Close
Mountain
Get
Getting
Anyway
Who
Many
Each
Need
Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film.
Alan Tudyk
Thoughts
You
World
Reading
Action
Down
Seconds
Trip
Someone
Take
Tick
Heady
While
Really
Whole
Film
Thing
Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and turn this way or that, and identifies them, like a signature, though it lurks far deeper than their style, or their voice or other telltale antics?
Andre Aciman
Style
Other
Secret
Way
Hidden
Though
Signature
All Writers
Nerve
Something
Voice
Writers
Prose
Like
Tick
Call
Makes
Than
Which
Them
Turn
Far
Deeper
Chamber
Lurks
I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.
Barbara Kopple
Challenges
People
Important
Think
Films
About
Tick
Terms
React
Also
Make
Important Issues
Makes
Always
How
Passionate
Causes
Issues
Been
Very
Human
Wanted
Interested
Social
Social Issues
Lives
I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.
Big Boi
Music
Myself
Me
Picture
New Things
Student
New
Tick
Learn
Makes
Always
Still
Trying
Just
Things
My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally.
Brian Cox
Man
People
Mother
Father
Nervous
Giving
Ran
Nervous Breakdown
Had
He
Generous
Tick
Lot
Chic
Debt
Very
Died
Shop
After
Breakdown
Aged
Paid
Molly
Who
Bills
Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
Candace Bushnell
People
Remember
Made
Other
Telling
Had
Since
Tick
Huge
Stories
Interest
Them
Ever
I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.
Carol Leifer
Mom
Woman
Way
Mad
More
Had
Divorced
Tick
Got
Affair
Off
Childless
Really
Figured
Suddenly
Desire
Every character thinks differently, and every character has a different energy and way that they tick. But to find a character like Kai, who is so far that he doesn't even feel things, he is so different from me. That is the most exciting part.
Chris Wood
Character
Me
Energy
Every
Way
Find
He
Part
Exciting
Feel
Like
Tick
Most
Different
Far
Who
Even
Differently
Things
Thinks
I feel like, whatever movie I was making, there would always be moments of human intimacy and insight into a little bit of what makes us tick as people.
Colin Trevorrow
People
Whatever
Intimacy
Bit
Would
Insight
Feel
Like
Tick
Makes
Always
Making
Human
Movie
Little
Little Bit
Us
Moments
To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick.
Cornelia Parker
Work
You
Tortuous
Tick
Make
Boxes
Artist
Quite
Large
Many
The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
Dallas Roberts
Those
Tick
Because
Boxes
Just
Being
Just Because
Notion
Show
Appealing
Cop
Career
People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.
David Ogden Stiers
You
People
Nice
Second-Hand
Enough
Giant
Tick
Hear
Hand
Second
I've been quite lucky in that I've managed to tick off a few of my dream roles, really. Beyond that, you wait for the next script to come in that will have the dream role that you don't know exists yet, I suppose.
David Tennant
You
Wait
Will
Few
Dream
Suppose
Come
Tick
Beyond
Know
Been
Off
Exists
Role
Roles
Quite
Script
Really
Next
Lucky
I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.
Dennis Quaid
God
Myself
People
Church
Same Thing
Other
Find
Religions
About
Tick
Know
Talking
Because
Makes
Still
Go
Up
Same
Want
Grew
Baptist
Really
Explored
Thing
The adrenaline is very important for me when I go in to bat. That makes me tick, makes me think better. When your energy is up and running, you have a much better chance of doing well.
Dinesh Karthik
Me
You
Better
Important
Energy
Think
Bat
Running
Better Chance
Adrenaline
Tick
Well
Makes
Doing
Go
Up
Very
Much
Your
Chance
I think it's great for my boys to have a girl in the house, just to understand at least a little bit about what makes a woman tick - not that I can certainly figure that out, because I can't.
Gisele Bundchen
Great
Woman
Girl
Think
Bit
Out
About
Tick
House
Because
Makes
Understand
Boy
Least
Just
Little
Little Bit
Certainly
Figure
For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.
Henry Petroski
Remember
Engineer
Made
Long
Guess
Invented
Small
Bottle
Tick
Know
House
Been
Wanted
Cap
Stand
Who
Radio
Fascinated
Large
Bridge
Play
Things
Designed
Watch
Early
Never feel like you have to tick all of the boxes on everything to be able to feel like you can do a job. I have heard it said many times before, and it is so true.
Jacinda Ardern
You
Job
Before
Everything
Able
Never
True
Feel
Like
Tick
Boxes
Said
Heard
Times
Many
I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.
Jaimie Alexander
People
Complicated
Weird
Tick
Makes
Very
Interested
I don't think if you looked up all the main points of feminism I would tick every one essentially myself.
Jamie Dornan
Myself
You
Feminism
Every
Think
Would
Points
Main
Tick
Looked
Up
Essentially
What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Jane Austen, because I'd like to know what really made her tick. It's my opinion that she was inhibited by her family and a desire to do the right thing. Away from all that, I believe she'd show new facets and enjoy the adventure.
Jo Beverley
Love
Family
Me
Do The Right Thing
Made
Past
Believe
Enjoy
Right Thing
Would
Would-Be
Case
Facets
Pick
Adventure
New
Like
Tick
Know
She
Because
Opinion
Austen
Person
The Right Thing
Jane
Jane Austen
Really
Show
Inhibited
Away
Her
Right
Thing
Bring
Desire
Going into a new environment with new coaches posed the question as to how well I actually know my own game. To have these big names asking what I want from them, and what makes me tick, showed me how selfish you have to be with your practice.
Jos Buttler
Me
You
Game
Selfish
Practice
Big
Own
My Own
Environment
New
Tick
Names
Know
Well
Makes
How
Question
Going
Want
Them
Asking
Coaches
Your
Actually
But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
Karl Shapiro
Love
Smile
Silence
You
Settle
Touch
Tick
Again
Breathing
Satisfaction
Exquisite
Sleep
Of course I love the action. I absolutely love doing action movies; it's what makes me tick, but I think my dream role is a movie that Will Smith's company has called 'Paper Wings.'
Katee Sackhoff
Love
Me
Will
Action
Think
Paper
Dream
Wings
Absolutely
Tick
Smith
Course
Makes
Doing
Role
Movie
Movies
Action Movies
Company
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