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Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. Jerry Saltz
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Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful. Jesse Ventura
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Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up. Jill Lepore
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My relationships are helped because of all the success I've had, but I'm only as useful as the idea I have today or tomorrow. Otherwise, I'm just a trophy. Jimmy Iovine
Success Today Tomorrow Otherwise Relationships Only Trophy Had Idea Because Just Useful Helped
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. Joan Didion
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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. Joan Didion
Down Way Those Tries Only Compulsion Compulsive Write Share Accidentally Inexplicable Itself Any Impulse Justify Useful Who Things
I was actually accepted into medical school in Italy. But then I wanted to come back and learn medicine in Germany. And while waiting, I decided to join a business school. I figured it would be useful for doctors to know some business as well! Jochen Zeitz
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Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else's. I'm not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I'm all about. Jocko Willink
Work Religion Me You People Better Some People Think Else Everyone Way Out Find Some About Shape Take Better Shape Better Way Like Than Gets Form Work Out Working Teach Useful
The convertible note is a useful and common financing structure in Silicon Valley. It's a form of debt that is really more a type of equity - one where the valuation hasn't been determined yet. Joe Lonsdale
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Inasmuch as there is a useful purpose to what we do as VCs, I tend to think it's our duty not only to mentor entrepreneurs and executive teams, but also to learn from them and the others involved. We can then pass on lessons to aid the startup ecosystem and help businesses succeed and grow their impact. Joe Lonsdale
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I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis. Joe Murray
Seen More Never Hand Than Personally Useful Transplant
I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist. John Cameron
Society More Physicist Sure Am Been Much Useful Medical
To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending. John Darnielle
Work Time Me Creative People Value Other Kind Takes Like Got Labor Any Depending Your Useful Creative Work
Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians have any illusions about genre boundaries. They are useful descriptive terms, but they don't really bind musicians. John Darnielle
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The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America. John Lawson
World Difficult Corn Settled Would Indian Some Had Most Proved Proves Been Very America Grain Useful Species
While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future. John Podhoretz
Future Negativity Unless Some About Inspiring Ideas Also Demoralizing Accompanied Overshadowed American Politically While Useful Elevated Extent
Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful. John R. Allen
Time Relationship Long Long Time Neighbors Critical Constructive Maximum Going Afghanistan Useful Extent Here
For people like me, books are something solid and real, whereas digital stuff is a bit more ethereal. I like the trophy on my shelf, the presence in my home. A nice book is just as valuable as a decoration as a beautiful porcelain urn - and, let's face it, a hell of a lot more useful. John Romaniello
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But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making. John Shelton Reed
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Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S. Jon Ronson
You Sometimes Tyranny Labeling Bipolar Other Once Only Leads Like Occasions Labeled Childhood Disorder Useful Treated
Shaming is powerful and useful. I'm living in New York, and my instinct is that, after the Black Lives Matter protests, which were organized on social media, the chance of there being another Eric Garner, choked to death in New York by an NYPD officer, has diminished. Jon Ronson
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Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you. Jonah Goldberg
You Speak Syria Moral Winning Klan Support Well Equivalent Getting Endorsement Might Useful Necessarily
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. Jonathan Kozol
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By and large, prisons are survivable, though hope is indeed what you need least upon entering here; a lump of sugar would be more useful. Joseph Brodsky
Hope You Sugar Indeed Though Entering Would Would-Be More Least Prisons Useful Large Lump Here Need
I wrote poems. That is my work. I am convinced... I believe that what I wrote will be useful to people not only now but in future generations. Joseph Brodsky
Work Future People Will Believe Future Generations Poems Only Generations Wrote Am Convinced Useful Now
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. Joseph Joubert
People Hide Shadows Part Abstract Most Terms Make How How Many People Themselves Create Useful Many Appear Profound Vacuum
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