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• The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work.

  Eric Bana

  People, Passionate, May

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• To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Ideas, Views, Matter

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• My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

  Gary Becker

  Men, Effort, Return

  Gary Stanley Becker, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (1996). “The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture”, p.9, Hoover Press

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• I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.

  Gary Burton

  Past, Years, Band

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• The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: 'What are we going to do in five years' time?' A completely different attitude.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Attitude, Next Week, Years

  Interview with Dan Warburton, www.paristransatlantic.com. July 08, 1995.

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• Doing a sitcom is like doing a play - you rehearse for three or four days, and then you shoot what you rehearsed on Friday night in front of an audience. An hour-long drama is like shooting a movie. You're shooting 13-14 hour days. The endurance itself is different.

  James Belushi

  Friday, Drama, Night

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• The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.

  Jane Byrne

  Government, Long, People

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• I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.

  Jason Bateman

  Gay, Cities, People

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• But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses.

  Julie Benz

  Horse, Western

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• I love going one-on-one with someone. That's what I do. I've never lost. It's a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

  Kobe Bryant

  Games, Want, Able

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• It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.

  Lance Burton

  Night, Audience, Every Night

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• My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

  Linwood Barclay

  Journalist

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• I am different - if you can find another like me, then I will buy you dinner!

  Mario Balotelli

  Dinner, Like Me, Ifs

  "Balotelli: 'I am a genius ... I am different - if you can find another like me, I will buy you dinner!'" by David Anderson, www.mirror.co.uk. May 29, 2012.

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• The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern.

  Michael Beschloss

  Country, Party, Italian

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• I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?

  Peter Berg

  Fighting, Different Ideas, Challenges

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• I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

  Rick Baker

  Awful, Way, Thousand

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• I've always thought of myself as more of a character actress. I've tried to do different things, but I've always been under the radar and that's how I like it. I've been really blessed to work this long and I just hope I continue to get better and better and better and better.

  Rose Byrne

  Blessed, Character, Long

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• There's more of a family connection when you're working on a TV show. That's not to say that you don't make great connections when you're working on films, but it's different unless you're there working every day.

  Simon Baker

  Tv Shows, Connections, Tvs

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

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• Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Years, Iron, Suits Of Armor

  Thomas Bulfinch (1858). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur, "King Arthur and His Knights", "The Mabinogeon", "The Crusades", "Robin Hood", Etc”, p.19

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• I wanted stores that would feel like a comfortable room in my apartment, cozy and colorful and different.

  Tory Burch

  Cozy, Rooms, Stores

  "INSTANT MBA: Design Your Company Around Your Needs" by Mariana Simoes, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2013.

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• I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

  Wes Borland

  Artist, Trying, Inspired

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• There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.

  Anne Carson

  Want, Facts, Far Away

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• I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.

  Dan Chaon

  Parent, Nebraska, Grew

  "Dan Chaon: Characters find sense of self" by Michelle Broder Van Dyke, www.sfgate.com. October 8, 2009.

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• I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

  David Cook

  Guy, Records, Beast

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• I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them have been huge, and sold millions of records. And I think over time it's become a little bit of what the industry can be.

  Eric Church

  Thinking, Artist, Together

  "Eric Church sings 'naked'". Interview with Whitney Pastorek, ew.com. May 10, 2007.

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