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I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

Elisabeth Shue

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I've always been a rebel, always curious about the world around me.

Martina Navratilova

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I was always curious. I wanted to learn a little about a lot of things, and I really had to get pushed to achieve.

David Robinson

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In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

Michael Shermer

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If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

David Bailey

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There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

Louis C. K.

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There is a kind of adventure- and risk-seeking audience in classical contemporary music that is really empowering and part of what draws me to it. The people that come to these concerts are open-minded and curious.

Bryce Dessner

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I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

Joshua Lederberg

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I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Azzedine Alaia

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My podcast 'Getting Curious' keeps me really busy, which I love.

Jonathan Van Ness

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I'm very curious. I feel more comfortable surrounded by people not like me.

Alessandro Michele

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I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I'll read an article about someone I've never met and think, 'I should ask him to lunch!'

Diane Sawyer

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The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

Vincente Minnelli

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What I was most curious about was why Armstrong, a top U.S. Navy test pilot, flying the most advanced aircraft in the world, would want to join the astronaut corps in 1962, which included chimpanzees and monkeys.

Douglas Brinkley

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I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

Terry Gross

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To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.

Paul Allen

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Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful to juniors, authentically curious about the news, and, in his time, an energetic reporter.

Conrad Black

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The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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A movie has to get good reviews, high grosses - it has to beat expectations. The same thing with television and the ratings. But being curious isn't like that. It's not a public thing. It's private, and the test is a private one. You have to be on your toes.

Brian Grazer

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The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies me. There's still magic in the idea, so I'd rather keep it that way than try to be exoteric about it.

Marcel Duchamp

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We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a practical side to them, too.

Bonnie Bassler

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Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

James Callis

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I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In his day, the definition of a conservative right-wing president is more like a centrist in our own time. He's also one of our funnier presidents - just a really good character to write about.

Austin Grossman

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