"The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul."
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"Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful."
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"The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do."
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"What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?"
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"Google - and some of the other sites, YouTube and, you know - Google has an amazing search engine. The map product is incredible. So there's a sort of exchange when you put up with a bunch of ads. Facebook basically gives you access to your friends who, in theory, you had access to already. So sometimes I don't really understand the deal, but I guess it makes it slightly easier. So that's their contribution."
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"If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway."
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"There's no map for being an artist."
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"Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map."
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"I don't really map anything out. I just let it happen [while writing]. But once it happens, it's always there. If it's laid, it's played. If I get to page 300 and it's not working, I junk it."
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"I have a map of the united states .... it's original size ... it says one mile equals one mile."
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"Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended."
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"Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion."
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"The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough."
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"The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity."
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"Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground."
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"... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!"
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"My hair's been every color. My hair's been all over the map."
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"Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless."
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"I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails."
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"The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein."
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