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I wanted to be Brooke Shields, and my mother was an aspiring photographer, so I was, of course, the only one who would sit still long enough for her to get things in focus, and I loved doing that.
- Stephanie Seymour
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If I focus on one person, the idea is that, oh, now you've attained this goal and beaten one person. One person. Well, what about the rest of them? Now how are you going to feel about fighting them? What's the motiviation there?
- Josh Barnett
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I don't want to be one of those players that gets the contract and the main focus is on him.
- LeSean McCoy
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So much is made about the beginnings of ballet careers, the rosebud, and then once the petals and leaves start falling off, is it beautiful anymore? Some people think it is; some people don't. The expectation is to focus on the very beautiful parts, not the ending.
- Wendy Whelan
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In the old world, people used to have to go to focus groups and ask people what they thought. Now, people are writing all over the Web what they think about things.
- Susan Wojcicki
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When you find yourself in a certain situation you have to identify where you want to go and focus on what you can achieve on that given day.
- Alex Zanardi
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When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.
- Heather Brooke
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I never felt like a prodigy. For one thing, the root of the word is rather monstrous, literally. I never really felt like a monster or anything abnormal, because I always had a lot of different interests. But kids tend to focus on one thing, and for me it was violin.
- Hilary Hahn
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Everyone wants to focus on what Ben Simmons can't do, which is shoot and try to rush him into being a range shooter. I think Simmons in Philadelphia has done a good job in focusing what he does great versus what he doesn't do as well.
- Jeff Van Gundy
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I think the way I sort of approach it is, you just sort of keep your head down and focus on what you are doing and making shows that people will want to see on Thursday night.
- Betsy Beers
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I focus on my work while some people unnecessarily complicate life.
- Johnny Lever
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I am not competing with anyone, I just want to focus on good music, content-driven films and do well in life.
- Diljit Dosanjh
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
- J. B. Pritzker
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We have to see the sufferings of Punjab and focus ourselves to address them.
- Gurpreet Ghuggi
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Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.
- Bridget Riley
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I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
- Edgar Wright
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I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember.
- Drew Goddard
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Having an interview in English is difficult for me, but acting in English is much harder. Because when I'm acting in English, if someone points out bad pronunciation or accent, I cannot focus on my emotions anymore, so it was very hard.
- Lee Byung-hun
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We're carrying out a real crusade against corruption and impunity with a focus on white-collar crime.
- Joao Lourenco
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It's really important to create something, like with my creations as a musician. Just let it flow. Focus on how to deliver message to audience. Don't get ego.
- Miyavi
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When you're in the field, you just focus on the task at hand.
- Daniel Berehulak
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I have to force myself to remember that if I can't do my job, people's stories won't get told, and that helps me to focus on the task at hand.
- Daniel Berehulak
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I view investors as our partners and stakeholders in the company. They are trying to build financial models. What I try to focus on is helping them understand how we think.
- Ruth Porat
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
- Barry Silbert
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This is the honest-to-God truth: I just focus on the work, because if my work isn't good, then I won't succeed either way.
- Lana Parrilla
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You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap.
- Robert Patrick
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You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it.
- Neal Schon
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Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.
- Mark Edwards
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It was a pleasure working with Q Entertainment. I don't focus on working with one company but rather with multiple companies, and I look forward to working with others.
- Masahiro Sakurai
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We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
- Joichi Ito
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I'm comfortable around girls because I grew up with two sisters and a single mom. I feel very lucky for all they have taught me. They tell me to be myself, have fun, and focus on eye expressions.
- Anwar Hadid
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I try not to think about anyone's expectations but rather focus on always doing my personal best. Modeling was never a thought in my mind growing up, but my mom felt it was important for me to be open to business opportunities and expand my horizons.
- Anwar Hadid
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I focus on organic foods and I also don't eat any wheat or gluten.
- Valtteri Bottas
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I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I'm a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear.
- Mos Def
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5-Hour Energy is not an energy drink, it's a focus drink. But we can't say that. The FDA doesn't like the word 'focus.' I have no idea why.
- Manoj Bhargava
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The number one focus of the American people has been jobs and the economy.
- Sean Spicer
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Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
- Aaron D. O'Connell
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
- Fatou Bensouda
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If you take your eye off the ball or lose focus for even a minute you can lose a game against any team.
- Felipe Anderson
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For me, always being ready and knowing that when I have my opportunity, I have to go out there and do my best. My whole career has been like that. I try to do my best in putting my focus in what I can control.
- Ryan Fitzpatrick
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Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.
- Ellen Datlow
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I think at some level the ICC is trying to promote the women's game globally and that requires them to focus more on ODI and T20I cricket. They are trying to revive the game.
- Mithali Raj
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The thing about 'Game of Thrones' is it doesn't pin too much of a focus on magic. It kind of paints it in the same way that mystical things are portrayed in our world, because you don't walk about Westeros and see wizards with staffs or magical wands. All the characters don't really believe in it. It's this mysterious hidden vein to Westeros.
- Isaac Hempstead Wright
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You need to keep something for yourself. As a writer, I feel that even more strongly. I feel like I need to be able to freely observe the world. That's the way I like to move through the world; I don't need to be the focus of attention. If I am, it impairs my ability to write and to do what I do.
- Tracy Chapman
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For the first case I did with Octone, 360 deals were not at all being talked about. And then for the follow-up case, it was the focus. I wanted to see how things were changing and what the new challenges were.
- Anita Elberse
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I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.
- Geoffrey Canada
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I think sometimes in the focus on deep friendships and on romantic relationships, we can lose sight of how important the small connections we make are with strangers and with people that we may encounter for just a few seconds or a few minutes, whether it's the barista at our coffee shop or the stranger next to us on the subway.
- Vivek Murthy
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We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.
- Anna Lindh
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If people hate Michael Langdon, that's a good thing. I'm not going to debate that. I don't worry about making him likeable... My real focus in playing Langdon is making his intentions clear and how he operates and what his mission is and how he shapes the perception of who he is around people.
- Cody Fern
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
- Ralph Marston
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Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.
- Angelina Jolie
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What annoys me most is it is so easy to focus on negatives all the time. All you hear is a lot of people - whether it is industry leaders or politicians - complaining about everything. I don't deny things are not always perfect, but the stage it gets is huge compared with the simple things that make people happy, like winning a football match.
- Vincent Kompany
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My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.
- Lakeith Stanfield
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In western classical music with an orchestra, you focus the orchestra on melodies and harmony. In African music, the biggest focus is on rhythms and counter-rhythms - the complexity of rhythms.
- Ludwig Goransson
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In today's time, when there is so much competition, they must not only focus on the characters of antagonists or protagonists, it is better for them to be good actors first.
- Mukesh Rishi
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I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.
- Hal Sparks
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Thankfully, I have a very full life. I'm married with kids, so I have a lot of things to focus on, other projects either in post-production or pre-production, so you just do the best you can.
- Matt Bomer
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An important part of leadership is being able to hold two things in your mind at once: Dealing with the reality, whatever it may be, and focus on hope for the future. Any leader helping an organization through challenges needs to be able to do both.
- Alan Mulally
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The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.
- Imran Amed
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The F-word here is focus.
- Jan Koum
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Most of the characters in 'The Little Rascals' were living in poverty, but they decided to focus on the joy of being a kid: the humor, the heart, the resilience.
- Sean Baker
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People focus too much on whether there's a Democrat or a Republican in office. It's not like this guy Kim-Jong Un got into power the second Trump got into power. It's not like he wasn't a problem. It's not like we haven't had warmongers. It's not like corporations haven't been the main influence on what we're doing around the world.
- Bill Burr
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We need to focus on the speed with which local governments can work with businesses.
- Muhtar Kent
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I'm gon' drip forever, but I'm not going to just focus on that. That's not going to be the title of all my albums.
- Gunna
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I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy.
- Anne Graham Lotz
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I can't watch most of my work. Once I come on screen, all I can think of is 'What am I doing with my hands?' or 'Why did I lean that way?' or 'What's that look on my face?' It's too difficult to not focus on evaluating my acting.
- Katie McGrath
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
- Hannah Murray
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I have worked long and hard to try to reduce my debts, and I am devastated that it came to this conclusion. I now intend to focus on the remaining dates of the Westlife tour and my commitments to the band before looking to rebuild a future for my wife, my three children and myself.
- Shane Filan
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On 'Master of None,' the majority of the episodes were just one story, and that was by design because we really wanted to focus in on the character of Dev and get the audience in his head.
- Alan Yang
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Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.
- Hanna Rosin
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When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.
- Louis de Bernieres
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I have these surreal moments where I'm like, 'I'm pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal's baby' and 'I'm telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.' But you're acting, so the focus is on the work.
- Sarah Gadon
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I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.
- Jodi Rell
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In this era of globalisation, I believe that the only way to push the Philippines forward is to focus our energy on improving English, mathematics, science, and technology.
- Lucio Tan
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In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.
- Ashley Greene
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Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.
- Bobby Flay
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The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.
- Lou Gramm
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
- J. A. Konrath
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It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.
- Christine Baranski
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As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.
- Henry Cuellar
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My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?
- Henry Cuellar
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It's very easy for people to say what's wrong with education in Arizona, but if I'm elected as governor, I want to focus on what we're doing well and maximizing the impact of what we know is working.
- Doug Ducey
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It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.
- Dennis Bergkamp
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I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.
- Cameron Mathison
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'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.
- Jack Zipes
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From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.
- Richard Branson
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I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.
- William Kamkwamba
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I've enjoyed my year with Caterham, I get on really well with the people so I think we keep all options open but 100% focus is to stay in F1.
- Marcus Ericsson
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Certain people have certain ways of focusing on things, and some arrange their lens to a pinhole in order to focus only on their goal. Others have a giant lens, and they take in the whole panorama. I was that pinhole kind of person.
- Wendy Whelan
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My focus is my preparation, my good condition, and every time, I go forward and forward, and nothing can stop me.
- Valentina Shevchenko
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I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
- John Boyne
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Nike is at its best when we focus on the future. Sport is in a constant state of progression. Athletes are expanding their potential every day - and so must we.
- Mark Parker
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The truth is, I love history and studied it in college, with a particular focus on early American history. My love is so deep, in fact, I went to school at The College of William & Mary in Colonial Williamsburg.
- Alexandra Bracken
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My faith in Islam is not unlike my faith in the game of basketball: Both require immense determination, focus, passion and discipline.
- Enes Kanter
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I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus.
- Giovanni Ribisi
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My Grinnell education didn't prepare me directly for the work that I'm doing, but it did give me the tools that I needed to focus my curiosity.
- Hilary Mason
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Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.
- Steven Chu
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I believe that Conservatives do best when we focus on strong ideas for our future and when we leverage the strength of grassroots across the country.
- Erin O'Toole
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Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
- Daisaku Ikeda
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I try not to focus on all the pressure stuff.
- Joe Burrow
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