2011

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So it’s been three months of no work, no meetings, no memos, no late nights, nothing. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.

Leslie Knope

Parks and Recreation

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Work-life balance

Speaker

Leslie Knope

Actor

Amy Poehler

Source

Parks and Recreation

Medium

TV program

Genre

Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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"Go Big or Go Home." Parks and Recreation, written by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur and Alan Yang, directed by Dean Holland, season 3, episode 1, Deedle-Dee Productions and Fremulon, 2011.

Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.

Barack Obama

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War on Terrorism

Speaker

Barack Obama

Source

Speeches of Barack Obama

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Obama, Barack. Remarks on the death of Osama Bin Laden. 1 May 2011, Washington, DC, USA.

The best way to get inside city hall is to make noise on the street.

Bhairavi Desai

Quoted in The New Yorker

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City politics Political progress Activism Politics

Speaker

Bhairavi Desai

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Desai, Bhairavi. Quoted in "Thin Yellow Line: The Taxi Driver's Advocate." Written by Lizzie Widicombe. The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2017.

Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

Joan Didion

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Topic

Memory

Author

Joan Didion

Source

Blue Nights

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Didion, Joan. Blue Nights. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you they are not big enough.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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Topic

Thinking big Goals Dreams

Speaker

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Source

2011 Harvard commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson. Commencement speech. Commencement cermony. 26 May 2011, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Topic

Disappointment

Author

Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 1.

Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait. I worry what you just heard was, "Give me a lot of bacon and eggs." What I said was, "Give me all the bacon and eggs you have." Do you understand?

Ron Swanson

Parks and Recreation

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Topic

Breakfast Food

Speaker

Ron Swanson

Actor

Nick Offerman

Source

Parks and Recreation

Medium

TV program

Genre

Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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"Indianapolis." Parks and Recreation, written by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur and Katie Dippold, directed by Randall Einhorn, season 3, episode 6, Deedle-Dee Productions and Fremulon, 2011.

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Youth vs. old age Youth Old age

Author

Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Stories

Author

Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Time

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Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

But time...how time first grounds us and then confounds us. We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them. Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Effects of time

Author

Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not, except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And then there is the question, on which so much depends, of how we react to the damage: whether we admit it or repress it, and how this affects our dealings with others. Some admit the damage, and try to mitigate it; some spend their lives trying to help others who are damaged; and then there are those whose main concern is to avoid further damage to themselves, at whatever cost. And those are the ones who are ruthless, and the ones to be careful of.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Suffering Pain

Author

Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 1.

Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? And also—if this isn't too grand a word—our tragedy.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Character Personal growth The human condition

Author

Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

On all plausible theories, everyone’s well-being consists at least in part in being happy, and avoiding suffering.

Derek Parfit

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Topic

Moral theory Happiness Suffering

Author

Derek Parfit

Source

On What Matters

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 20th century

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Parfit, Derek. Reasons and Persons. Oxford University Press, 1984.

The "one" that I am is composed of narratives that overlap, run parallel to, and often contradict each other.

Glenn Ligon

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Personal identity Contradiction

Author

Glenn Ligon

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Ligon, Glenn. Yourself in the World: Selected Writings and Interviews, edited by Scott Rothkopf. Yale University Press, 2011.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

Francis Ford Coppola

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Nature of art Taking risks Originality Art

Speaker

Francis Ford Coppola

Source

Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration 99U Magazine

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Coppola, Francis Ford. "Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration." Interviewed by Ariston Anderson. The Behance Blog, 5 Jan. 2011.

Can I do something in my lifetime that can help change the way we are.... Can I help in a little tiny fraction, make it better here?

Maya Lin

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Changing the world Progress

Speaker

Maya Lin

Source

NEA Arts Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Lin, Maya. Interviewed by Rebecca Gross. NEA Arts Magazine, no. 4, 2011, www.arts.gov/stories/magazine/2011/4/what-innovation/maya-lin