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Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
Author:
Citium Zeno
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They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.
Author:
Michael Zaslow
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I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.
Author:
Ed Wynn
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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.
Author:
Dianne Wiest
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The formula is the star. I couldn't work inside that formula.
Author:
Dianne Wiest
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Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.
Author:
Vivienne Westwood
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And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.
Author:
Murray Walker
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IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.
Author:
Murray Walker
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If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.
Author:
Gilles Villeneuve
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Author:
Herbert Swope
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I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.
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Kiefer Sutherland
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But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.
Author:
Michael Stipe
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There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
Author:
Jackie Stewart
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Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.
Author:
Jada Smith
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Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.
Author:
Joe Shuster
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As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
Author:
Bobby Sherman
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It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.
Author:
Barry Sheene
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Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.
Author:
George Shearing
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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.
Author:
Irwin Shaw
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The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
Author:
Yahoo Serious
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In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.
Author:
Michael Schumacher
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.
Author:
Bob Schieffer
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It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.
Author:
Alan Rudolph
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.
Author:
Kimi Raikkonen
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It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends.
Author:
Nelson Piquet
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Author:
Tom Peters
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Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
Author:
Alexander Payne
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
Author:
Walter Pater
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Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.
Author:
Grace Napolitano
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Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Author:
Maria Mitchell
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I think we can find a formula that would be to everyone's satisfaction, which would make it possible for Croatia to take some more steps and for Europe to accept us into its midst, and for the talks to start.
Author:
Stjepan Mesic
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The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.
Author:
Branford Marsalis
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Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.
Author:
Nigel Mansell
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I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.
Author:
Jet Li
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I try not to do anything by formula.
Author:
Sean Lennon
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If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.
Author:
Sandy Koufax
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Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.
Author:
Lee Konitz
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I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.
Author:
Margot Kidder
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There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.
Author:
Terrence Howard
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When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.
Author:
Martin Heidegger
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My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way.
Author:
Guy Hamilton
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There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.
Author:
Dante Hall
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I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.
Author:
Thom Gunn
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The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.
Author:
Stanislav Grof
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Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.
Author:
Jimmy Greaves
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My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Author:
Cary Grant
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I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.
Author:
Sue Grafton
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My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
Author:
Paul Getty
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
Author:
J. Getty
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The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
Author:
Stephen Gardiner
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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.
Author:
Vito Fossella
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For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.
Author:
Grandmaster Flash
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I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races.
Author:
Emerson Fittipaldi
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There are many young talents in Brazil. There is a lot of hope in Felipe Massa. It is very difficult to judge him in his first year, but by the end of the end we are going to have a better position how he does in Formula One.
Author:
Emerson Fittipaldi
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To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!
Author:
Emerson Fittipaldi
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They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport.
Author:
Bernie Ecclestone
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The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
Author:
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.
Author:
Herbert Croly
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Author:
Quentin Crisp
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Author:
Joseph Conrad
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Under each formula lies a corpse.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state.
Author:
Michael Chertoff
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Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision.
Author:
Michael Chertoff
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Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.
Author:
Deana Carter
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I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.
Author:
Louise Brown
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This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.
Author:
Aristide Briand
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All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
Author:
Dorthea Brande
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While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
Author:
Earl Blumenauer
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
Author:
Larry Bird
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We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked for the first two movies, and for that reason I think this works as well.
Author:
Jason Biggs
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Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
Author:
Dirk Benedict
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
Author:
Roland Barthes
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We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.
Author:
Roy Barnes
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I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.
Author:
Javier Bardem
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
Author:
Saint Augustine
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A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Author:
Chet Atkins
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I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.
Author:
Corazon Aquino
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I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
Author:
Piers Anthony
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I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.
Author:
Fernando Alonso
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I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.
Author:
Fernando Alonso
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Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.
Author:
Chris Allsburg
