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I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.
- Mike Ditka
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Observe yourself as you go through a typical day. Stuff happens to you. As it does, you immediately judge it and label it. Dozens of times. Hundreds of times. So often that you no longer recognize that you're doing it. It is a deep-seated habit.
- Srikumar Rao
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As soon as I go into a dark subject, like discussing the people I've loved and lost, I off-road into absurdist comedy perversion. It's both a means of protection and a kind of denial, a blessing and a curse. Wait, it's not a blessing at all. I guess it would be a bad habit and a curse.
- Bob Saget
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
- Mary Martin
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Get in the habit of vetting your research as you go - particularly research conducted online. Verify facts from multiple reputable sources before you record them.
- Gayle Lynds
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My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
- Luke Ford
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
- Orison Swett Marden
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
- Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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I think I have a habit of, in my head, taking notes on whatever, you know, whether they're verbal or pictorial or just making a note of things as they're happening.
- Roz Chast
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It's 2009, things change. I'm a creature of habit, so in the beginning I wanted it to be as much like the original as possible, but that's not reality. And reality is, this is a new generation, and people want to see 'Witch Mountain' again.
- Kim Richards
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When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
- Tycho Brahe
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I've made it a habit not to burn any bridges.
- Robin Leach
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I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.
- Alice Waters
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I find it is a bad habit to look at social media before bed, so I try to read something on paper - not on my phone - before I go to bed.
- Katrina Lake
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I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.
- Satyajit Ray
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The first sales meeting I made was for the television movie 'Farrell for the People.' I walked into a conference room at NBC that I had built. It was my memorial conference room. There were 10 people at the meeting, and by habit, I sat at the head of the table.
- Fred Silverman
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Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
- Julianna Baggott
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
- Edie Campbell
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Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
- Marilyn vos Savant
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Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.
- Caroline Lawrence
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Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.
- Craig Kilborn
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
- David Brin
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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
- David Lloyd George
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I have got into the habit of gyming regularly.
- Govinda
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
- Patrick White
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No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
- Bernard de Mandeville
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The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
- Peter Ustinov
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I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.
- Ellen Gilchrist
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When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.
- Jake Gyllenhaal
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When I was growing up, we had a widow living next door to us. So the habit was that if we went to the grocery store, we called her first. If we cut our yard, we cut her yard, no questions asked.
- Lynn Good
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
- V. S. Pritchett
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When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It's really just a lack of focus and discipline.
- Sean Astin
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We have a bad habit of not being able to do things cheap.
- Alain Wertheimer
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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
- Martha Gellhorn
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Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
- Alistair Cooke
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Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.
- Karen Salmansohn
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I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
- Trey Parker
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To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
- Robert B. Laughlin
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The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.
- Alice Morse Earle
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Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.
- Lee Trevino
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The cold truth is that the best products don't always win. Many times it's - the products that have the ability to keep users coming back and using them without conscious thought and using them out of habit are the ones that keep us coming back.
- Nir Eyal
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My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the like.
- Divya Khosla Kumar
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Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.
- Victor LaValle
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
- Edmund Husserl
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.
- Madhur Bhandarkar
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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
- William Winwood Reade
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There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.
- Anne Hathaway
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While they're in WWE, we absolutely have a health and wellness policy. I'll probably always say 'we,' even though I've resigned as the CEO. It's kind of hard to break a 30-year habit.
- Linda McMahon
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I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.
- Jerry Ferrara
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I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.
- Claire McCaskill
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I got a bad habit of creating.
- Rza
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Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
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My worst habit is probably awkward laughing. I always awkward laugh, like when you're talking to someone and no one is saying anything, so I'll do an awkward laugh. I wish I didn't do that.
- Lucas Cruikshank
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The causes for my eating disorder ran along the usual lines: depression, an inability to express my rage, a desire to exert control, a desire to feel less, a desire to have my body express the things my voice could not. That, and I had gotten in the habit of believing it was better to take up less space.
- Zoe Kazan
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I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.
- Henry Mayhew
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Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.
- Chauncey Wright
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There was a library near us in San Francisco. It was the West Portal Public Library. I would ask my father to drive me there at night and pick me up when it closed. I think he was worried about this routine but never let on. Also, I kept this a secret from my friends, as I don't think it would have been considered the 'coolest' habit.
- Jeffrey Tambor
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
- Francis Bacon
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The king and the dauphin both like to see me on horseback. I only say this because all the world perceives it, and especially while we were absent from Versailles, they were delighted to see me in my riding habit.
- Marie Antoinette
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Habit is ten times nature.
- Duke of Wellington
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My unhealthiest habit is that I like eating white bread and butter. I don't know why, I just ate it as a kid. It's weird but I love it. My healthiest? I make a really good quinoa, chickpea and tahini lemon dressing salad, or I make a really bomb green smoothie.
- Courtney Eaton
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Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.
- Alcee Hastings
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John McCain and Lindsay Graham have a habit of communicating with great passion and regularity. I have great respect for both individuals, but their style is not everyone's style.
- Todd Young
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Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living.
- Peter Landesman
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There are things we do out of habit that are not always good for us. Break the bad habits and develop some good ones.
- David Kirsch
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For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.
- Eli Roth
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Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.
- Rachel Bilson
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Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
- Maxine Hong Kingston
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You don't want to make a living or habit out of trying to solve your problems with high-price pitching free agents because over the long run, there's so much risk involved that you really can hamstring your organization.
- Theo Epstein
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My travel habit is usually to visit somewhere I have never been rather than develop a consistent relationship with a place.
- Jodi Balfour
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I'm very much a creature of habit. I don't like to try to new things.
- Eliot Sumner
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I have Googled myself, yeah, I think everybody has. I try not to make a habit of it - in fact I made a rule once never to Google myself, which made me happy.
- Aidan Gillen
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As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.
- Gail Honeyman
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I have a horrible habit of buying merch tees. I go on people's websites and look at all their merch because I'm interested in it, because we sell merch, too. And then, I always end up buying something.
- Ryan Hurd
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I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.
- Laura Mvula
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I have this horrible habit of just pressing online bookmarks that are at the top of my browser like ad infinitum.
- Ruben Fleischer
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A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
- Lev Grossman
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My worst habit is opening the fridge and thinking: 'I'd like to eat something.'
- Prue Leith
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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
- John Jay Chapman
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I have a bad habit of fighting to the level of my competition.
- Tommy Morrison
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I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner.
- Serena Williams
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As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me.
- Prince Charles
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Imagine life without any algorithms at all, you wouldn't be able to do anything. This is already completely encompassing. We have a habit of over-trusting what mathematics or computer scientists tell us to do, without questioning it, too much faith in the magical power of analysis.
- Hannah Fry
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Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
- Andrew Coyle Bradley
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Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.
- Thomas Woods
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How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
- Jack Nicklaus
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The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.
- George Lois
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I've been curious about certain things, but didn't let them get in the way of my life. I don't know how people becoem successful with some kind of habit.
- Tobey Maguire
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The 10 years of theatre prepared me not only as an actor but also as a human being. It gave me the habit of reading, watching, and preserving.
- Manoj Bajpayee
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In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more than a typewriter and a post office. I rely on my lifelong habit of daydreaming to spin my stories.
- Julia Glass
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For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.
- Trey Gowdy
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When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.
- Martin Henderson
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The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.
- Martin Henderson
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Falling head over heels in love with women was a habit I thought I'd thoroughly grown out of in middle school, when a group of about five girls and I color-coordinated our outfits and spent weekends and even some weeknights sprawled out in each others bedrooms.
- Jenna Wortham
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Both my parents were keen golfers and Dad was such a creature of habit that he didn't see much of me at Ayr United because he always played a round on Saturdays. He was an old-school parent of his time and I've no complaints.
- Steve Nicol
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You can't suddenly say, 'I want a brand new habit tomorrow,' and expect it to be easy and effortless.
- Charles Duhigg
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Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.
- Charles Duhigg
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