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• Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

  Jonathan Coe

  Labels, Feels, Comfortable

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• In reference to Cat Stevens, it is very, very important we have accurate information on our terrorist watch list and our no fly list and that you have a remedy.

  Asa Hutchinson

  Cat, Important, Watches

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• Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

  Ken Burns

  Music, America, Jazz

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• Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Respect, Truth

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

  William Moore Kelly

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

  Pope Francis

  Literary Genre, Speech, Definitions

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.17, A&C Black

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• No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Birthday, Witty, Time

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1389, GENERAL PRESS

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• I think that Rachel Maddow is probably the most assertive, politically motivated and accurate voice of my generation.

  Mehcad Brooks

  Thinking, Voice, Generations

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• Always dress to what is accurate to who and what you are.

  Daymond John

  Dresses

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• Love women! I hate feminism. "Hate" may be an accurate word, but too strong to use. I strongly oppose feminism because it's nothing but liberalism, and it's doing nothing to actually advance women. It's doing just the exact opposite.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Strong, Hate, Opposites

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit.

  Gary Allan

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

  Annie Besant

  Country, Past, Judging

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• Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

  Louis C. K.

  Way, Comedy, Polite

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• Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Beautiful, Difficult Choices, Pops

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• When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Letting Go, Playing Someone, Burden

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. January 31, 2006.

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• To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.

  Will Self

  Fall, Writing, Pages

  "Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure" by Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Anne Enright, Howard Jacobson, Will Self and Lionel Shriver, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.

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• The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.

  Ed Sheeran

  Mean, Titles, Enjoy

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

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• Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.

  Lysander Spooner

  Exercise, Government, People

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings”

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• Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

  James Surowiecki

  Rocks, Musical, Punk

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• My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.

  Taylor Swift

  Real, Gossip, Fans

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• Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Routine, Physics, Prophecy

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• NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Eye, Lists, Nasa

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• Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Believe, Home, Reflection

  "How Spiritual Leaders Get Through What They’re Going Through: Lie or Leave" by Iyanla Vanzant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

  Terry Pratchett

  Lying, Book, Reality

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.214, Random House

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• For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Bottles, Milk, Poet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

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