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Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.
The Notorious B.I.G.
Excellence is my being. Always confident, never doubting.
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Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
Mary Douglas
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Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be coopted by the managers of this age
Walter Brueggemann
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The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.
Katt Williams
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Tense and nervous are not the words, though they are the words
Chris Kamara
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With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
Kevin Systrom
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Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed
Brian Tracy
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The body is consuming energy when tense, and restoring energy when it is relaxed.
Ronnie Lott
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When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.
Deborah Levy
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Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Politics is history in the present tense.
John Avlon
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My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.
Trisha Yearwood
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I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.
Samantha Bond
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Being nervous actually kept me very tense.
Kate Bush
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I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.
Edna O'Brien
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A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.
Joseph Addison
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As far as we know, everyone’s right— Strigoi don’t want to hang out in Palm Springs.” Eddie became about one percent less tense.
Richelle Mead
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Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with.
Judith Orloff
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I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.
Tiger Woods
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There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.
Tom Hooper
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I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.
Henry Rollins
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The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.
R. K. Milholland
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It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.
Bethenny Frankel
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As a driver I have come to believe that the person just in front of me and the person just behind me are always just about to do something really stupid. Tense is not the right word, but I am very hyper-aware of such things.
Jonathan Meades
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Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
Friedrich Nietzsche