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• We always try to encourage more songs sung by Kim, because there are always requests for it. I certainly don't want to ball hog all the singing.

  Thurston Moore

  Song, Singing, Trying

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• I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about.

  Claude Monet

  Technique, Knows

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• The frequency of automobile accidents is declining in North Carolina, but the severity of accidents involving bodily injury is rising in the state. That's something we will keep our eyes on in preparing our request next February.

  Tim Lucas

  Eye, North Carolina, Rising

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• I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me 'smoking can cause fatal lung cancer'.

  Robert Clark

  Cancer, Smoking, Warning

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• I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

  Robert Toombs

  Country, Regret, Addresses

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3

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• A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.

  Walt Disney

  Prayer, Promise, Levels

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• A large portion of Christ's miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that ear gone deaf to-day? Will He not do for our children's souls what He did for the bodies of the ruler's daughter, and the dead youth at Nain?

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Daughter, Children, Parent

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 66, 1895.

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• The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

  Samuel Smiles

  Use, Lasts, Influential

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.2

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• I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?

  Roger Ebert

  Sports, Baseball, Prayer

  Roger Ebert (1995). “Roger Ebert's video companion: 1996 edition”

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• Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

  Bill Vaughan

  Patience, Men, Details

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• Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

  Eli Wallach

  Interviews, Wells, My Own

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

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• I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.

  Liz Phair

  Song, People, Giving

  "Liz Phair’s on the lookout for magic in the moment". Interview with John Wenzel, www.denverpost.com. January 12, 2011.

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• He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

  Victor Hugo

  Sorrow, One Day, Details

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2050, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If you’re not seeing God move in your life right now, one of two possibilities must be considered. Either your requests are not God’s best and will probably not be answered the way you’d like or it must not be the right time. If God were to answer that prayer the way you are hoping, it could interfere with his ideal plan for you.

  Joel Osteen

  Prayer, Moving, Two

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• It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Country, People, Secret

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• Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Running, Accountability, Google

  "Evgeny Morozov: 'We are abandoning all the checks and balances'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

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• If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you already have, instead of requests for things you do not have, you will obtain results much faster.

  Napoleon Hill

  Gratitude, Prayer, Blessing

  "Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success: The 17 Principles of Personal Achievement".

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• Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five "no's" before you get a "yes."

  Jack Canfield

  Motivational, Spiritual, People

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• The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.

  Dallas Willard

  Prayer, Father, Thinking

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• Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place.

  Omar Suleiman

  Marriage, Respect, Religious

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Nov 18, 2013

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• Love makes requests, not demands.

  Gary Chapman

  Demand

  Gary Chapman, Ross Campbell (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages Men's Edition/The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers/The 5 Love Lan”, p.30, Moody Publishers

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• My only request is that I draw my last dollar and my last breath at the exact same moment.

  Bobby Layne

  Dollars, Lasts, Moments

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• In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Grief, Order

  Kate Millett (2000). “Sita”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

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• The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Mean, Men

  Oscar Wilde (1988). “The complete plays”, Methuen Drama

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• It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. If they want something, then they need to learn to request that thing.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Glasses, Want Something

  "Q&A: Temple Grandin on Autism & Language". Interview with Vikki Valentine and Jon Hamilton, www.npr.org. July 9, 2006.

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