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• I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Snakes, Body, Honest

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• People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year's resolution to a lifestyle.

  John Cena

  Sports, New Year, Bodybuilding

  "Lifting Like a Champ". Interview with Brandon Guarneri, www.mensfitness.com.

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• It's an immense amount of pressure, celebrity itself.

  Megan Fox

  Pressure, Immense

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• I feel like if you are with someone through the process of pregnancy and delivery, if nothing else, there is such an incredible amount of respect that would lead into some sort of love in one way or another.

  Megan Fox

  Pregnancy, Way, Incredibles

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

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• When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, 'I'm going to do that and put people into orbit' is a real leap.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Real, People, Orbit

  "Expert testimony on the space age". Interview, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.

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• I've had my breath taken away when a fan told me since watching my speech she has stopped herself being beaten up by her father. I've been stunned by the amount of men in my life that have contacted me since my speech to tell me to keep going, and that they want to make sure that their daughters will still be alive to see a world where women have power and equality, economically and politically.

  Emma Watson

  Daughter, Father, Taken

  "Emma Watson at Davos: 'Women need to be equal participants'" by Carmen Fishwick, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2015.

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• I could go to L.A. for limited amounts of time, but I like New York too much. I like seasons. I like fall.

  Wyatt Cenac

  New York, Fall, Too Much

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• My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

  John Hurt

  Father, Fields, Certain

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 22, 2007.

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• We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.

  John Glenn

  Infinite

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• Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney in three states on Tuesday. Got a huge amount of fundraising. That's the good news for Rick Santorum. The bad news: people are now Googling 'Santorum.'

  Bill Maher

  Fundraising, People, Tuesday

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• In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

  Wallace Shawn

  Numbers, Long, Minutes

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

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• I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Reality, Next, Rubbish

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• I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.

  Felicity Kendal

  Wine, Glasses, Small Amounts

  "My body & soul". Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

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• What's the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit - taking the show pre-Broadway to cities like Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington - has sort of been replaced with the amount of workshops we do.

  Patti LuPone

  New York, Boston, Cities

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• You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taken, Men, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.339

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• Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Girl, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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• Yes, well I do have plenty of clothes, jewels and money. However I don't ask for money for myself but if some one gives me money I take it and put it in The Eva Peron Foundation which gives huge amounts of money to the poor and helps to build hospitals , schools and old peoples' homes .

  Bill Vaughan

  Home, School, Jewels

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• I love hard work. One Man, Two Guvnors was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.

  James Corden

  Hard Work, Pride, Men

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• I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?

  Eric Idle

  Helping Others, People, Lame

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• I hate the amount of communication, the obligation that you have just by owning a phone.

  Lucas Till

  Hate, Communication, Phones

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• I've never really taken myself seriously as an actor, It is surprising the amount of people who think I'm going to be really dumb. I think they think anyone who has done teen movies is just an idiot. I don't know, maybe I am. Some of the best actors, if you talk to them, they're not the smartest people in the world.

  Robert Pattinson

  Taken, Thinking, People

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• People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Lying, Thinking, People

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• I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Rain, Exercise

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.

  Donna Mills

  Hate, Makeup, Careers

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• You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Girl, Children, Thinking

  "Showbiz Tonight" with Brooke Anderson, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2009.

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