"cross that person off your invitation list."
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"I'm an actress, model and athlete, and I'd put athlete third on the list."
"History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again."
"At EMILY's List, we’re in the business of expanding the political power of women."
"I won't make a bucket list because I'm so afraid that I'll die and then people will find my bucket list and be, like, 'Oh, she didn't get to do that.'"
"List 20 things you are going to do in the next 30 days to fast-start your career. Then take action on at least one of them."
"If you're 70th or 80th on the money list, it's not very motivating."
"I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard."
"The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party]."
"I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about those are always the wrong choices."
"If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list."
"The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness."
"Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind."
"I have a list of universal beliefs, and they are amazing beliefs, like, "No one cares" or "You don't care about me"; "I should be successful" or "I'm not successful"; "I don't have enough money"; "I'm too tall or thin or fat"; "I shouldn't have done it" - oh, my goodness, they go on and on and on."
"Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind."
"Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me."
"Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement."
"He who has the pepper may season as he lists."
"In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment."
"If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve."