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Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
John Updike
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If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
Eric Cantona
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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
George Eliot
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!


Walter Gropius
There's nobody who cares more about you than you, and there's nobody better equipped to take care of you than you.
Rush Limbaugh
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I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.
Adam Rickitt
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All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.
Sammy Hagar
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Man becomes his most creative during war.


Clint Eastwood
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.


Matthew Arnold
Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.
Lawrence Lessig
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Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
Stephen Jay Gould
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.
Bobby Knight
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Any story is better with a little love in it, right?


Claire Danes
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And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were.
Lisa Scottoline
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I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.
LL Cool J
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People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.
Marcy Kaptur
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There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity.


Peter Dinklage
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I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?
Hoda Kotb
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Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
John F. Kennedy
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Be a doer and not a critic.


Tony Blair
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