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• Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Teaching, Play

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• I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'

  Wavy Gravy

  Running, Cities, Kansas City

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• Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

  Judd Gregg

  Tv Shows, People, Tvs

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• I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

  Lev Grossman

  Thanks, Publishing, Stills

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• Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Years, Sky

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• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  Bear Grylls

  Rude, Rays, Brilliant

  "Question time". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2008.

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• I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more.

  Daphne Guinness

  Book, Gossip, Tvs

  Interview with Peter Brant II, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 23, 2011.

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• Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

  William Hague

  Law, Guilty, Release

  "Yesterday in parliament" by The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2006.

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• When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Winning, Gold

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• All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.

  Steven Hatfill

  Believe, Responsibility, Government

  "Text of Hatfill's Statement", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.

  Anne Hathaway

  Growing Up, Princess, Want

  "Anne Hathaway Talks Fighting in Heels, Adapting to Nolan’s Universe, Filming in IMAX and More on the Set of The Dark Knight Rises". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

  Patricia Heaton

  Thinking, Perspective, Hollywood

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• Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.

  Damien Hirst

  Cards, Credit, Hitting

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• I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Information, Journalist, Rely

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.143, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Hard Times, Sniping, Investing

  "Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens on What It's Really Like in Iraq". "The Big Story With John Gibson", www.foxnews.com. July 24, 2003,.

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• Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

  David Hockney

  Country, Britain, Small Countries

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• Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.

  Mark Hoppus

  School, Differences, Long

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  When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

  LL Cool J

  Strength, Stay Strong, Adversity

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• Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

  Jesse Jackson

  Writing, Names, Columns

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson: The Davis/Moseley Braun meeting-and on the media covering the mayor’s race". Interview With Carol Felsenthal, www.chicagomag.com. December 30, 2010.

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• I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

  Michael Jackson

  Dancing, Doe, Faces

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• Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

  Naveen Jain

  Creativity, Fire, Polio Vaccine

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• I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!

  LeBron James

  Games, Matter, Needs

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• Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, President, Safe

  Letter to Charles Yancey, 6 Jan. 1816

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• I want to give back. I want to do all the things that will make me feel fulfilled. But whenever I do those things, people think it's a press stunt or something.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Behind-the-Scenes with Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'

  Sophia Loren

  Years, Two, Interesting

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