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Somewhere Else

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"What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being."

Names Greek Somewhere Else
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Zig Ziglar Author, Motivational Speaker
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"The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals."

Leadership Meaningful Somewhere Else
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Byron Katie Author, Speaker
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"The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life."

Real Miracle Somewhere Else
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Mark Cuban Entrepreneur, Investor
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"Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's "supposed" to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else."

Business Motivation Somewhere Else
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Geneen Roth Author
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". . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first."

Journey Inspiring Somewhere Else
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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
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"Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else."

Past Cities Somewhere Else
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David Lee Roth Musician
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"It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action."

People Somewhere Else Wow
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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet
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"We don't want to be simply wandering about without some kind of reason, we want our presence here to have a purpose, and that we are not going to end here, we are going to proceed somewhere else, and also that we didn't begin here, that we began somewhere else and all that living, all that elaborate account of our presence seems to be quite basic to our nature and so this is what literacy taps into."

Want Purpose Somewhere Else
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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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"Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free."

Thinking Music Somewhere Else
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David Bowie Musician, Actor
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"I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else."

Thinking Somewhere Else Hippie
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Tanith Lee Author
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"I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world."

Writing Real Somewhere Else
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"Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack."

Blood Finding Yourself Somewhere Else
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Stephen King Author
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"One can often trace the sources of a brand personality - here it is the advertising, there the pack, somewhere else some physical element of the product. Of course, the personality is clearest and strongest when all the elements are consistent."

Business Personality Somewhere Else
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Naomi Watts Actress
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"We're all the same, we all think its better somewhere else; its better being older if you're younger - or its better being younger when we're older."

Thinking Ifs Somewhere Else
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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel"

Long Memories Somewhere Else
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"In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth."

Actors Editing Somewhere Else
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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
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"Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?"

Eye Air Somewhere Else
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