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• Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities. ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes. ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Self, Average

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• The enormously diverse culture where people can agree and disagree is just amazing, and to learn about the events that took place here over millennia has been fantastic. It's a trip I'll never forget.

  Miguel Ferrer

  Israel, People, Events

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• Think positive thoughts, intensely. Grow enthusiastic images, boldly. Speak only wonderful words to yourself, constantly. Feel fantastic, NOW! This colors your view of the world. Like a magnet, you attract the resources necessary to manifest the world you desire.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Thinking, Views, Color

  Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen (2002). “The One Minute Millionaire: The Story that Transforms Your Life and Makes You Rich”, Random House Business Books

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• My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Dream, Writing

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.7

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• We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Respect, Real, People

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• But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques; which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

  Parminder Nagra

  Football, Running, Games

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Men, Ideas, Wish

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

  L. Frank Baum

  Love, Heart, Childhood

  L. Frank Baum (2015). “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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• I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky that I have such a good image of family life - my father and mother are still in love, still happy.

  Caterina Murino

  Love, Mother, Dream

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic.

  Frank Lampard

  Sports, Thinking, Ties

  Interview with Rob Hobson, www.cfcnet.co.uk. August 10, 2005.

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• . . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that would make the licking of toads illegal; Lisa Presley marries Michael Jackson. You read these things and you think to yourself that realism may not be the best medium through which to express the real world.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• I thought that was fantastic. We were working on that the other night, actually.

  Alex Riley

  Night, Wwe

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• I'm not a politician, She says evenly. If I want to be one, I'll run for office. Susan Sarandon, whom I know and love, is a fantastic actress. It's her right as an American to say whatever she wants. [But] just because you're rich and famous doesn't qualify you to make political statements. I don't put my opinions out there to influence people. You have alot of influence. And sometimes I feel it's undeserved influence.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Running, Love Is, People

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• It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.

  Alvin Langdon Coburn

  Photography, Dream, Art

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• I have no problem with bands using participant financing schemes like Kickstarter and such. I've said many times that I think they're part of the new way bands and their audience interact and they can be a fantastic resource, enabling bands to do things essentially in cooperation with their audience. It's pretty amazing, actually.

  Steve Albini

  Thinking, Band, Enabling

  "Amanda "$1.2m" palmer wants you to play with her for free". Comment to a post, www.electricalaudio.com. September 13, 2012.

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• Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!

  Thomas Hoving

  Sexy, Art, Climbing

  "Art struck", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2000.

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• The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Wall, Idols

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.38

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• At the very core of RIM is the innovation. We always think ahead. We always think forward. We sometimes think the unthinkable. And that is fantastic.

  Thorsten Heins

  Thinking, Innovation, Sometimes

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• David Boreanaz is actually a very good director and he directed one of our episodes. Excellent director, knew exactly what he wanted. We never had long days with David. He was great, he knew exactly what he wanted and he's a fantastic director.

  Michael Clarke

  Long, Directors, Excellent

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• After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted upon the minds of men, or it is the most fantastic fact of history

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Men, Heartless

  Josh McDowell (1979). “Evidence That Demands a Verdict”, Thomas Nelson

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• Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.

  William Wordsworth

  Ocean, Sea, Land

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The poetical works of William Wordsworth”, p.121

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• Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Ego, Authorship

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1958). “The Affluent Society”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• What could possibly be more fantastic than reality?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Reality

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1985). “All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

  Hannah More

  Imagination, Events, Shapes

  Hannah More (1838). “The Poetical Works of Hannah More”, p.73

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• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  Harrison Ford

  Kids, People, Influence

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