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• The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Love, Peace, Government

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• And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.

  Umberto Eco

  Lost

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• Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.

  Umberto Eco

  Columnists, Wells, Satirist

  "Don't smile when you say that" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.

  Umberto Eco

  Attitude, Origin Of Life, Fundamentals

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• I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Character, Thinking, Tv Shows

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• Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

  Elizabeth I

  Mind, Swerve, Company

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• Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.

  Paul Engle

  Country, Small Changes, Iowa

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• I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Strong, Responsibility, Feels

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• I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Book, Written Word, Written

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• But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

  Paul Farmer

  Simple, Medicine, Justice

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• If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.

  Tim Ferriss

  Strong, Mean, People

  Interview with John Romaniello, www.askmen.com.

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• Everybody has their opinion on what's 'real,' and what's they choose to listen to and their personal preference. Whether they're 2 years old or 200 years old. And people can listen to whatever they want.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Real, Years, People

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• However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Senior, Drug, Towns

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• Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Life, Artist, Inspire

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• I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

  Jane Fonda

  Feel Good, Film, Enough

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• I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

  Harrison Ford

  Anger, People, Might

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• Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

  Barney Frank

  Issues, People, Giving

  Interview with Jason Zengerle, nymag.com. April 15, 2012.

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• We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

  Thomas Frank

  Wall, Government, Opinion Leaders

  "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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• It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.

  Al Franken

  Secret, Impossible, Debate

  "We need transparency on domestic surveillance" by Al Franken, www.cnn.com. July 23, 2013.

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• When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?

  Al Franken

  Meaningful, Political Opinions, Years

  "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.

  Michael Franti

  Media, Diversity, Agendas

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• What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

  Anna Freud

  People, Affection, Primitive

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• For the record, I Iike Jay-Z. That's my opinion.

  Noel Gallagher

  Records

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• We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Heart, Acceptance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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