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• Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

  Natalie Dormer

  Character, Way, Intriguing

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• People ask me what the appeal of 'True Blood' is and I think there are so many answers to that question, but I think that when there is so much excitement for what you do there is no way that that doesn't become palpable and comes shooting out like bullets.

  Michelle Forbes

  Thinking, Blood, People

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• Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Thinking, People, Parent

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

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• You make a film and you don't know who it's going to appeal to.

  Emilio Estevez

  Film, Knows

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• [Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section, but also upon the brain behind the eye of the observer. Each of us looks at a section with the accumulated experience of his past study. Hence the veteran cannot make the novice see with his eyes; so that what carries conviction to the one may make no appeal to the other. This fact does not always seem to be sufficiently recognized by geologists at large.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Eye, Science, Past

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• This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does not appeal to the reader. In most cases he will be able to go on and later he may return to the parts which he skipped.

  Emil Artin

  Science, Important, Doe

  Emil Artin (2016). “Geometric Algebra”, p.7, Courier Dover Publications

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• Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of the new, is dissipated. Today the appeal to newness, of no matter what kind, provided only that it is archaic enough, has become universal, the omnipresent medium of false mimesis. The decomposition of the subject is consummated in his self-abandonment to an ever-changing sameness.

  Theodor Adorno

  Self, Evil, Matter

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.238, Verso

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• I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

  Renee Fleming

  Art, Thinking, Media

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• When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Attention, Pay Attention, Persons

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• I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.

  Tony Iommi

  Jobs, School, College

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• In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

  John Barth

  Art, Skills, Doe

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• In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

  Hari Kunzru

  Imagination, Fiction, Teens

  "When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

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• I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.

  Jon Krakauer

  Thinking, World, Natural

  "Krakauer in Antarctica". Interview with Liesl Clark, www.pbs.org. February 11, 2003.

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• Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Stars, Men, Twenties

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• It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Men, Conquer The World

  Benjamin Disraeli (1869). “The Novels and Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P.”, p.176

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• I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

  Amos Lee

  Artist, Mass

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• I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.

  Alexei Navalny

  Violence, Aggression, Courses

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• Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde.

  Diana Trilling

  Running, Saws, Defense

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• ... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been encouraged to attribute our prosperity and general success among nations, to that sort of action. In my opinion, hard work and dedication to logic and reason ought to be recognized as the reasons for our achievements, not appeals to a mythical friend-in-the-sky. We got where we are in spite of, not because of, those incantations.

  James Randi

  Prayer, Hard Work, Dedication

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• Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

  Paul Johnson

  People, Feelings, Common Man

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• The appeal to force is the abandonment of reason.

  Irving Copi

  Abandonment, Reason, Force

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• Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Men, Cockroaches, Doe

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• There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

  Ellen Barkin

  Androgyny, Certain

  "Ellen Barkin on 'Another Happy Day,' Sam Levinson, and Being a 'Broad'". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. November 15, 2011.

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• When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

  Jean-Philippe Rameau

  Morality, Reason, Instinct

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• From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.

  Robert Pozen

  Law, Giving, Perspective

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