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• I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

  Colin Firth

  Culture, Popular Culture, Stills

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

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• Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Iron, Quitting, Institutions

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

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• I just wanted a change. My hair started hurting my back, so I went to my hairdresser and said 'Take it off.' And I'm delighted with the results.

  Sarah Brightman

  Hurt, Hair, Said

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• Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

  Richard Branson

  Nice, Long, Alive

  Twitter post from Jul 24, 2014

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• My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

  Buffalo Bill

  Home, Wife, West

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.363, U of Nebraska Press

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• I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.

  Bill Ayers

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• Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, People, Want

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• I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

  Richard Russo

  Fool

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• O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very way it should be. May I never look at the other findings until I have come to my own true conclusions: May I care for the least of the young: and become aware of the one poem that each may have written; may I be aware of what each thing is, delighted with form, and wary of the false comparison; may I never use the word "brilliant."

  Theodore Roethke

  Jesus, Teaching, Use

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.134, Copper Canyon Press

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• Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

  Martin Luther

  Evolution, Adam, Rejoice

  Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, Martin Luther (1958). “Luther's Works, Volume 1 (Genesis Chapters 1-5)”, Concordia Pub House

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• The more he gave away, the more delighted he became.

  Marcus Pfister

  Inspiring, Book, Writing Children's Books

  Marcus Pfister (1992). “The Rainbow Fish”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.

  Roger Maris

  Baseball, Doubt, Would Be

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• Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.

  David McCord

  Education, Wise, Book

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• I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything about my current work right now, because the current work that my group is focusing on is actually both the time resolve electrons and possibly x-rays to be able to get the architecture of these molecules, the molecular structures themselves, of very complex biological systems. That's the ultimate goal.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Goal, Rays, Groups

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I am delighted to have won so much support from my colleagues. The Conservative Party can come together - and under my leadership it will.

  Theresa May

  Party, Support, Together

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• My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working!

  Alex Hirsch

  Children, Fall, People

  "Gravity Falls' Alex Hirsch on his show's big cliffhanger". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. March 11, 2015.

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• It's very hard to find a good comedy. I prefer doing comedy far over anything else because I think they're actually more profound. But finding a good one and a great ensemble is very difficult to do and I'm delighted that in these particular times there is so much interest in comedy and that comedy is having so much success.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Thinking, Profound, Ensemble

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.''s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian''s hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.

  Naomi Wolf

  Team, Focus, Events

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• Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Looks, Look Up, Dictionary

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• I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

  Arsene Wenger

  Stay Strong, Doubt, Courses

  "Campbell and Lauren agree new deals". www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2005.

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• I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

  Tom Stoppard

  Waiting, University

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• I'm just delighted that this woman I love can be a mum again.

  Rod Stewart

  Mum

  "Rod Stewart: I burst into tears when Penny said she was pregnant". www.mirror.co.uk. November 1, 2010.

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• I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am.

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, Adventure, Romance

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• Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

  Dr. Seuss

  Teacher, Children, Educational

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• I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.

  Adele

  Children, Moon, Together

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