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• It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

  Terry Pratchett

  Strange, Wonderful, Boring

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• I was ten. I had noticed something was weird earlier in the day, but I knew from commercials that one's menstrual period was a blue liquid that you poured like laundry detergent onto maxi pads to test their absorbency. This wasn't blue, so... I ignored it for a few hours.

  Tina Fey

  Blue, Tests, Pads

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2011.

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• It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.

  Idris Elba

  Wire, Criminals

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• Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks.

  Scott Walker

  Reality, Illinois, Leader

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• All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored

  John Anderson

  People, Democracy, States

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• I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.

  Lee Tergesen

  Thinking, Cells, People

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• I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Sports, Strong, Games

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• Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is growing in the United States. He deplores the perverse effects of minimum wage laws, and the legal minimum is regularly raised each 3 or 5 years. He brands usury laws as a medieval superstition, but no state hurries to repeal its law.

  George Stigler

  Philosophy, Years, Law

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• I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Taken, Thinking, Issues

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

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• It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Years, Hussein

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• As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

  Harvey Pekar

  Facts, Looks, Stories

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

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• The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

  Yoko Ono

  Running, Priorities, Males

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• Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

  Al Capp

  Children, People, Should

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• If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

  Tucker Max

  Parent, Type, Trauma

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• I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Writing, Dark

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• We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, Our World, Together

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Writing, Long, Being Ignored

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• Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.

  Richard Matheson

  Should Have, Biting, Given

  Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan

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• Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; caps and bells. And then once more the quiet mystery is present to me, the throng's clamor recedes: the mystery that there is anything, anything at all, let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything, rather than void: and that, 0 Lord, Creator, Hallowed one, You still, hour by hour sustain it.

  Denise Levertov

  Memories, Clothes, Offering

  Denise Levertov (1997). “The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.

  Zadie Smith

  Attention, Worthy, Has Beens

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• Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking soda while the house fell down around us. If I had to guess the number of books she read during that time, I would place the number at somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand.

  Haven Kimmel

  Mom, Drinking, Book

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.163, Broadway Books

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• Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty, drugs, terrorism...or the current Hitler of the day, an appeal to patriotism is used to convince the people that a little sacrifice of liberty, here or there, is a small price to pay...The results, though, are frightening and will soon become even more so.

  Ron Paul

  War, Sacrifice, Loss

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• The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.

  Percy Cerutty

  Training, Important, Resistance

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• Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Powerful, Voting

  "Who Are Red Letter Christians?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2008.

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• He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

  John Irving

  Being Ignored, Rivals

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