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• Drug companies should not be allowed to reap excessive profits or spend unreasonable amounts on marketing if they want to receive support that is designed to encourage life- saving and health-improving treatments.

  Hillary Clinton

  Support, Drug, Marketing

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The beauty of running your own label and your own show is that you are in charge. I get sent a huge amount of musicfrom new and established talent every day, so if I like a track, I play it - no questions asked.

  Nicky Romero

  Running, Play, Track

  Interview with Aditya Seth, thebanginbeats.wordpress.com. August 28, 2014.

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• I have a ridiculous amount of confidence of protecting myself, but along with that confidence comes the ability that you don't need to fight.

  Sean Faris

  Fighting, Needs, Ridiculous

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. February 21, 2008.

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• I admit that one should never underestimate the capacity of banks to destroy enormous amounts of accumulated capital and reduce, temporarily, the supply. After all, capital is the accumulated savings of mankind. And banks are great masters in destroying enormous amounts of capital with great regularity.

  Arie de Geus

  Saving, Underestimate, Destroying

  "Arie de Geus: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with S+B, www.strategy-business.com. April 1, 2001.

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• The oil companies are really making a very lucrative amount of profit from the high price of oil. I don't that they're very keen to reduce the price of oil. The consumers are those who are the victims so I think that the producers, the governments, some of them, they're enjoying the high revenue that they get.

  Ahmed Zaki Yamani

  Thinking, Government, Oil

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a position. If you want to say something about your position, you can just say it. You don't have to spend massive amounts of screen time.

  Woody Allen

  Genre Is, Want, Wonderful

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• When I get up in the morning, I go and I work with beautiful women and charming men and funny comedians and dramatic artists. And I'm presented with costumes and great music to choose from and sets. I travel a certain amount of places, so I've been living in a bubble. And I like it.

  Woody Allen

  Beautiful, Morning, Artist

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• I don't listen to a huge amount of music generally. Partly because you've sat in a studio for 10 hours and then when you come home you just want to read a book, and listen to the sound of your central heating system.

  Herbert

  Book, Home, Sound

  Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008.

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• I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.

  Tao Lin

  Character, Thinking, Empathy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In today's world of blogging and tweeting, conversation has become a bit more staccato. In many ways we're more efficient, but I think the amount of longer conversations that radiated more warmth may have gone down.

  Indra Nooyi

  Thinking, Gone, World

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Even with my non-believing teammates, there is a great amount of unity and I truly believe that's God working. It's really cool in team sports when you're united around a belief or something you want to accomplish.

  Tobin Heath

  Sports, Team, Believe

  "A conversation with U.S. women’s soccer team member Tobin Heath". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Sometimes I have experienced at the start of a film you're very excited and enthusiastic and you've done all your preparation internally and externally and you start the film and it's all go... Then your attention goes somewhere else. Your energy goes into telling the story, so you don't have the same amount of energy to be objective, and that's okay because sometimes you become a subject of the story and you're inside it so much that you don't need to keep on looking on the outside.

  Colin Farrell

  Somewhere Else, Preparation, Energy

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• You have the upmost amount of energy because you're not just having a cocktail at the end of the night. You're actually not drinking alcohol and you're keeping your body really clean and it's an amazing feeling to be getting out all the toxins.

  Colin Farrell

  Drinking, Night, Alcohol

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Veto message in The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson, vol. 3, (pp. 73 - 74), April 23, 1949.

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• The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.
  Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof.

  Zeno of Elea

  Science, Race, Example

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• Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

  Susan George

  America, Wealth, Investment

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• I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

  Jason Isaacs

  People, Soul, Trying

  "Jason Isaacs: 'I like being anonymous'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2011.

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• If you’re unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don’t blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal access to power, wealth, and status. Then watch what happens.

  Christopher Ryan

  Opportunity, Unhappy, Watches

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• I believe in a reasonable amount of "right to bear arms". But private citizens of the United States are not allowed to own nuclear weapons. I always wanted a nuclear weapon, if I could have gotten one. I'm every other kind of power, but I'm not a nuclear power.

  Ted Turner

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.

  Henry Reed

  Dream, Thinking, People

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• There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Jobs, Manipulation

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• My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

  William Scranton

  Tests, Suits, Take Me

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• People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.

  Jayson Blair

  Media, Years, People

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• Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.

  Kevin Kelly

  Technology, Minimum

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• Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

  Sam Harris

  Long, Puppets, Creeds

  Sam Harris (2012). “Free Will”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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