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• When people can be vulnerable to one another then you're kind of giving people permission to really be yourself and not try to impress all the time and you get into more interesting work. You're being real and you're not afraid to mess up or seem weird.

  Mark Webber

  Being Yourself, Real, People

  Source: collider.com

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• In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.

  Scott Adams

  Car, Hot, Way

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• The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that...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, Hands

  "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" by Adam Smith, (Section II, Chap. II), 1759.

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• I can still impress my family, yeah. In fact, I always text my family when I meet someone famous. I ran into Anna Faris and I texted my niece, and I said "Just hugged it out with Anna Faris," and she was like, "Oh my God! OMG! OMG!" She got a big kick out of it.

  Jane Lynch

  Niece, Facts, My Family

  Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. May 19, 2009.

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• My ideal guy is my future husband. Not sure who he is yet, but he's out there. What impresses me in a gay guy? A warm smile, stubble, easy to talk to, thoughtful tattoos, kind eyes, wit, positivity, wanderlust, ambition, and a cute ass.

  Tyler Oakley

  Cute, Tattoo, Husband

  Interview with Louis Virtel, www.newnownext.com. September 4, 2013.

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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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• Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body types. In this generation, it's sad to see so many black girls claiming ethnicities that they know nothing about in hopes of impressing a man or appearing 'exotic'. So many people act as if being black and beautiful is impossible. It's not. If we wanna get technical and look at our history, almost every black American is mixed. But we must stop implying that a woman's beauty comes from a part of her that is not black.

  Skye Townsend

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

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• Most new trainers agonize over the perfect workout, over-train virtually everyone and are the crazy purist idiots who embarrass themselves at restaurants trying to impress everyone with how clean they eat.

  Dan John

  Workout, Crazy, Perfect

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• I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"

  Dev Hynes

  Fall, People, Traps

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don't try to impress God with your works" or "Don't attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don't try to keep the rules and regulations in order to earn your salvation." He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of utterly casual Christians and wondered, "Who's trying?

  Martin E. Marty

  Christian, Order, Trying

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• In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.

  Galileo Galilei

  Running, Men, Long

  "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems". Book by Galileo Galilei (p. 322), 1632.

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• He's been dead for so many years, but I'm still trying to impress him. That's what gave me my drive. 'Look at me, Dad, I've succeeded.'

  Elton John

  Dad, Years, Trying

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• Who hasn't made mistakes? I once french kissed a dog at a party to try to impress what turned out to be a very tall 12 year old.

  LIZ

  Dog, Mistake, Party

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• I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.

  Danger Mouse

  Artist, Space, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To be able to impress, you have to get to this middle ground where you're not too advanced so it goes over people's heads, and you're not too minimalist where people think you're just trying to rob the game and not stretch out.

  DJ Quik

  Thinking, Games, People

  Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

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• I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

  Laurie Anderson

  Kids, People, Childhood

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

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• If you don't know something, admit it. But, try to impress them with what you do know.

  Bob Weinstein

  Trying, Knows, Ifs

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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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• I think there are certain people that you'll always want to impress no matter how much success you have.

  Amy Adams

  Thinking, People, Want

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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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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• World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out "loner" who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields.

  Philip Roth

  War, Order, Political

  Philip Roth, Ross Miller (2008). “Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991”

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• I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.

  Alton Brown

  Home, Circles, People

  "13 Questions With Alton Brown". Interview with "AskMen" Editors, www.askmen.com.

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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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• I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Dad, Kids, Thinking

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