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• Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.

  Angela Merkel

  Money, Mean, Cutting

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit and Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• Mousse was a Labrador retriever, which is a large enthusiastic bulletproof species of dog made entirely from synthetic materials. This is the kind of dog that, if it takes an interest in your personal regions (which of course it does) you cannot fend it off with a blowtorch.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.127, Crown Archetype

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• I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around.

  Alexander Sutherland Neill

  Alexander Sutherland Neill (1972). “Neill! Neill! Orange peel!: An autobiography”, Hart Associates

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• How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.

  Joseph Campbell

  Mean, Littles, Enthusiasm

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• Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

  Cecil Beaton

  Intelligent, Conceit, Frank

  Cecil Beaton (1957). “The Face of the World: An International Scrapbook of People and Places”

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• We make every effort to bring the newest and most innovative technology to our enthusiastic customers, drawing on the best in the industry. Our collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies on the Snapdragon 810-powered Mi Note Pro provides us the ability to deliver more performance, features and user capabilities to a mobile device than ever before.

  Lei Jun

  Technology, Drawing, Effort

  "Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 Processor Powers Premium Tier Mobile Experiences of 2015". www.qualcomm.com. February 2, 2015.

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• I was a drug dealer in Ibiza at 15. I did not excel in drug dealing - I was terrible at it. Golden rule with drug dealing - don't get too enthusiastic with your own merchandise.

  Lily Allen

  Ibiza, Drug, Golden

  "Send us your questions for Lily Allen". www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2018.

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• Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Past, Race, Ideas

  "Tristes Tropiques". Book by Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Chapter 38: "A Little Glass of Rum," pp. 393, 1955.

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• The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

  Karl Marx

  Long, Society, Church

  "By Appointment With the Future Queen" by Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. April 28, 2011.

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• I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

  Robert Osborne

  Awards, Good Movie, Oscars

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• I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

  Stephen Mangan

  Teacher, School, Scary

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• There is only one ingredient for innovation and that is the power of the human mind. As long as a company is able to attract, enable, empower and retain the best of the brightest, it will have a play. As long as the leadership of companies ensure that the physically and mentally tired mind that leaves office at whatever 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm or 9:00 pm comes back mentally and physically reenergised and enthusiastic to add significant value to the customer next morning, the job is done.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Morning, Jobs, Tired

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• The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Discovery, Two, Different

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• Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

  Jonathan Demme

  Mean, Fiction, Littles

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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• When I was younger, I didn't know who a lot of those people were because I couldn't watch any of their movies. I actually get way more starstruck now. I think starstruck is the wrong word - I get overly enthusiastic about who I work with.

  Liana Liberato

  Thinking, People, Watches

  Interview with Rachel Small, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.

  David Lynch

  Our World, Goal, Creative

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• Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude.

  Sterling W Sill

  Attitude, Lazy, Ambitious

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• 'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

  Alan Arkin

  Years, Bunch, Connected

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• The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Country, Tone, Idiot

  The Mikado act 1 (1885)

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• They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.

  Aleister Crowley

  Passion, Patriotic, Storm

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 57, 1969.

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• I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

  Michael Sims

  School, Library, Bookstores

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• Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

  Christina Romer

  Details, Voters, Honest

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• New York is a wonderful place to shoot. The bystanders are great. They are enthusiastic. They respect the process, and you get the energy of the city.

  Jane Curtin

  New York, Cities, Bystanders

  "Jane Curtin looks at "Unforgettable" life and career". Interview with Jill Jacobs, www.reuters.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.

  Ryan Adams

  Mistake, Men, Stuff

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

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• I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

  Jonathan Demme

  Fiction, Documentaries, Film

  "Jonathan Demme Says 'Zeitoun' Still Need Financing, Talks Adapting Stephen King’s '11/22/63'" by Jeff Otto, www.indiewire.com. June 20, 2012.

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