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• Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.

  John C. Maxwell

  Healing, Impact, Want

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• I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it to impress a girl.

  Gideon Defoe

  Girl, Book, Writing

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• There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had seized you by the shoulder! It should impress you like reality!

  William Morris Hunt

  Reality, Men, Vitality

  William Morris Hunt (1878). “W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais”

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• We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith.

  Vaclav Havel

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

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• The Russians haven't been to the moon. You know why? Because they're space pussies... You really want to impress us? Bring us back our FLAG!

  Sam Kinison

  Moon, Space, Pussy

  "Live from Hell", 1993.

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• From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that's fantastic for me.

  Stephen Chow

  Character, Views, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.

  Bethany Mota

  Thinking, Trying, Just Being

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• Women love to impress and be their best.

  Martin Lawrence

  "Martin Lawrence Interview BIG MOMMA'S: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON; Updates on BAD BOYS 3 and THE SKANK ROBBERS With Jamie Foxx". Press conference, collider.com. February 13, 2011.

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• Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.

  Daniel Webster

  Children, Exercise, Men

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “Speeches on various occasions”, p.108

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• Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her.

  Lyle Lovett

  Honesty, Men, Causes

  Song: Sonja, Album: I Love Everybody

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• I don't preach or try to impress my views upon people.

  Raine Maida

  Views, People, Trying

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• As awesome as it is to be with a big act and get three catered meals a day and get a dressing room with an actual shower in it, it's hard sometimes as a new artist to come across in 25 minutes. You get 25 minutes to hopefully impress these people. I think the longer set is more suitable for us and gives us an opportunity to connect better.

  David Nail

  Opportunity, Thinking, Artist

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• We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Moving, Games, People

  Press conference, www.ign.com. July 14, 2004.

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• Yeah, I love living in New York, man, and people who live in New York, we wear that fact like a badge right on our sleeve because we know that fact impresses everybody! I was in Vietnam. So what? I live in New York!

  Denis Leary

  Funny, New York, Humor

  Song: Death

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• Never stop trying to impress your partner. If you can both stay in that place, when you really want to show the best of yourselves to each other, relationships can become such a powerful team.

  Matthew Hussey

  Powerful, Team, Trying

  "Interview With Rising Star Matthew Hussey, Bestselling Author of Get The Guy and International Love Guru". Interview with Nicole Bryl, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

  Marco Pierre White

  Girl, People, Trying

  "Interrogation: Marco Pierre White". www.mirror.co.uk. February 3, 2012.

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• I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don't impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling.

  Paul Arden

  Ideas, Watches, Tvs

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• Some people who see cooking as a job. They got into cooking at some stage and they're sort of ticking along trying to get the money together to buy the car to impress the girlfriend and you know they're doing their job, but some of these people one day, all of a sudden it becomes wonderfully exciting to them. They find this love of what they're doing and they're away.

  Paul Rankin

  Girlfriend, Jobs, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Thinking, Trying, Want

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• The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it

  Adam Smith

  Wise, Men, Might

  Adam Smith (1817). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages”, p.379

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• I've come to learn that theology matters. It matters not because we want to impress people, but because what we know about God shapes the way we think and live. Theology matters because if we get it wrong then our whole life will be wrong.

  Joshua Harris

  Thinking, People, Shapes

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• Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for.

  George Washington

  Men, Order, Mind

  George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the

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• I'm not trying to put on airs for anybody. I'm only trying to impress myself by doing the best job I can do.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Jobs, Air, Best Job

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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• By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Nature, Pain, Heart

  Erasmus Darwin (1825). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts ... The Economy of Vegetation, and The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes”, p.7

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• The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.

  James L. Barksdale

  Thinking, People, Essentials

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