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• Just refrigerator efficiency saves more energy than all that we're generating from renewables, excluding hydroelectric power... I cannot impress upon you how important energy efficiency is. It doesn't mean you eat lukewarm food and your beers are lukewarm. You can still have it; you just make a better thing

  Steven Chu

  Mean, Beer, Important

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• Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in sports derives directly from our need to use our children to impress others with our economic surplus. We find "good" rather than real reasons for letting our children go along with the crowd.

  David Elkind

  Sports, Children, Real

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I can not impress on my readers too strongly the necessity to be firm but kind to a puppy.  His idea of your authority is forming, and if he knows you give in on the slightest whimper, you are wacked for life.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Ideas, Giving, Puppy

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• I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Art, Research, Want

  "Director Cary Fukunaga Talks TRUE DETECTIVE, Making an 8-Hour Film, Future Seasons, BEASTS OF NO NATION, Modernizing Horror with IT, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2014.

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• I had no money. I had no savings account.So I would bring down my color TV set, a Sears TV with a cable snaked into it - they had no video-in back in those days - and hooked it up to the circuit of very few chips and then a little keyboard you could type on. And I was trying to impress people with how did he do it with fewer chips than anyone could ever imagine?

  Steve Wozniak

  Color, People, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of pop culture - has grown so used to an emasculated, bare-chested leading man that something like simply growing a mustache can impress people.

  Nick Offerman

  Men, Thinking, Civilization

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.

  Rich Mullins

  People, Trying, Cracks

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• If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Wise, Religious, Simplicity

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• I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me; I dont know why! There were only 330 kids in my high school, though, so it wasnt a lot of kids to impress or reign over.

  Nicholas Braun

  Drama, School, Kids

  "Seventeen Chats with Nicholas Braun!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 10, 2009.

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• To impress your offer on the mind of the reader or listener, it is necessary to put it into brief, simple language...No farfetched or obscure statement will stop them. You have got to hit them where they live in the heart or in the head. You have got to catch their eyes or ears with something simple, something direct, something they want.

  John Caples

  Eye, Heart, Simple

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• Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, May, Matter

  Letter of to his Minister of the Interior on the Poor Laws. Pub. in The Press, February 1, 1868.

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• We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

  Orson Welles

  Girlfriend, Order, Civilization

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

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• What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.

  Nancy Mitford

  Life, Children, Nice

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Goldie Hawn is funny, sexy, beautiful, talented, intelligent, warm, and consistently sunny. Other than that, she doesn't impress me at all.

  Neil Simon

  Beautiful, Sexy, Intelligent

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• Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Believe, Men, Water

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.195

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• it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.

  Lionel Shriver

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Difficult

  Lionel Shriver (2007). “A Perfectly Good Family: A Novel”, Harper Perennial

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• Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else’s needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to “help” and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Fall, Careers

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• The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

  Robert Ringer

  Fashion, Desire, Form

  Robert Ringer (2004). “Action!: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves”, p.189, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If we aren't careful, our children will come down with 'affluenza,' a disease that causes them to confuse wants and needs. We need to teach our children what my grandmother taught me: Think twice about spending money you don't have on things you don't need to impress people you don't like anyway.

  Michelle Singletary

  Money, Children, Grandmother

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• Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.

  Marcella Hazan

  Art, Home, Accomplishment

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• I don't dress any particular way to impress anyone or market myself for my music. It's actually who I am.

  Lady Gaga

  Who I Am, Dresses, Way

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• If you're in a subordinate position of some sort and pretty much all of us are at some point in our lives, your general tendency is to try and impress the people above you or person above you so well that they will like you, keep you or maybe promote you. In the process of doing that you are not aware that that person above has insecurities and if you try so hard they may see that you are after their job or that you are better than they are or they might envy the fact you are younger.

  Robert Greene

  Jobs, People, Envy

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Mom, Lame, Concerts

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• This sutra enjoins a rule of morality. It says nobody should be disrespected. A man can impress evdrybnody by his virtues. Disrespecting others means downfall of our own virtues. A person who disrespects others, in a way disrespect himself. A virtuous man does not disrespect his friend or vevn his enemy. Disrespect to enemy can investigate him toreact. The best thing is to destroy him completely. For a ruler this is very important.

  Chanakya

  Mean, Men, Political

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• I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard.

  Uri Geller

  Found, Performers

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