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• But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

  Joe Biden

  Election, Authority, Polls

  "Interview With Colin Powell; Interview With Nabil Sha'ath; Interview With Ehud Olmert". "CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", edition.cnn.com. January 9, 2005.

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• The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Travel, Writing, People

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• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

  William James

  Positive, Success, Attitude

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• I'm still amazed by the process of recording.

  Graham Coxon

  Process, Stills

  Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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• More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

  James Levine

  Mom, Couple, Dad

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• You make your Own luck.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Good Luck, Lucky Day, Luck And Skill

  Neale Donald Walsch (2008). “Happier Than God”, p.98, Jaico Publishing House

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• I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

  Willie Stargell

  Running, Home, Thinking

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• I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Eye, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.42, Penguin

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• There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

  Robert Mondavi

  People, Giving, Pleasure

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• Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

  Iris Murdoch

  Marriage, Women, Writing

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.29, Penguin

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• But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

  William Hurt

  Knows

  "Horrible histories". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2005.

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• I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Fey

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• I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

  Carl Sagan

  Education, School, Learning

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.

  Michael Giles

  Adventurous, Dangerous, Heard

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• I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?

  Paul Merton

  Funny, Humorous, Air

  "Are these Britain's greatest wits ... or twits?" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2007.

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• I'm amazed sometimes by the Christians who don't really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Believe, Want

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• When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Learning, Long

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Men, Lady Macbeth

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.867, Wordsworth Editions

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• You have been created by God and for God, and someday you will stand amazed at the simple yet profound ways He has used you even when you weren't aware of it.

  Kay Arthur

  Simple, Profound, Way

  Kay Arthur (2009). “As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments”, p.207, WaterBrook

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• Do not be amazed by the true dragon.

  Dogen

  Reality, Dragons

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• I never expect anything. I am always amazed at why anybody goes to any movie or why anybody doesn't go to any movie. Any movie you make, you make it because you're hoping somebody wants to see it, but you never know.

  Clint Eastwood

  Want, Never Expect, Knows

  "Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I am constantly amazed at their support over the years.

  Mike McCready

  Years, Support

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• I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.

  Michael Jackson

  Art, Thinking, Museums

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Jul 11, 2013

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• I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.

  Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

  Men, Sometimes, Knows

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• Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Flower, Humble, Eye

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.645, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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