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• I’m always so impressed with these actresses with their perfect make-up and hair and sometimes I’m very aware that I’m not like that. But I don’t think I can do things any other way. I would be wearing a disguise if I started to apply that stuff.

  Clemence Poesy

  Thinking, Hair, Perfect

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• The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them.

  Jon Brion

  People, Knows

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 30, 2004.

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• Perhaps the most sophisticated and highly evolved system is that originated by Joseph Scogna. I was impressed by the profound insights into the relationship between my own bodily functions and the psychological and emotional issues that emerged.

  Rudolph Ballentine

  Emotional, Issues, Profound

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• SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Together, Musician, Energy

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• I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.

  Lucy Punch

  Party, Guests, Dinner

  "Q & A With Lucy Punch: Woody Allen's New Film, Eating Geographically and Why Offal Is Off-Limits". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.laweekly.com. September 20, 2010.

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• We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Science, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

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• I knew Hillary Clinton from undergraduate days and was enormously impressed with her. She was a terrific energy and enthusiasm, and a great organizer. And I knew that she was going to have a political future.

  Robert Reich

  Political, Energy, Enthusiasm

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.

  Mark Shields

  Strong, Home, America

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• Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Musician, Doe

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• What a pleasure it is to be in business with BASE. I'm impressed with the honesty, integrity and efficiency with which they operate. The next show I do and represent, I will be doing with them all over again.

  Bernie Brillstein

  Honesty, Integrity, Next

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• The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.

  Glenn Gould

  Void, Doe, Forget

  "Glenn Gould Reader". Book by Glenn Gould, p. 5, 1984.

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• The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Memories, Real, Important Events

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• I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.

  Jim McDermott

  Thinking, Trials, Balloons

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• I think the thing that impressed me is (AT&T CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new AT&T.

  William Morris

  Real, Commitment, Thinking

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• Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.

  Baldassare Castiglione

  Tree, Soul, Body

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• I have done much reporting in what might be termed the religious field. I have interviewed dozens of people-maybe hundreds-asking questions about their beliefs. Some impressed me more than others, but it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the gift of faith (and I think it is a gift) is the most valuable one of all. People who have it are stronger-and kinder-and more unselfish-and happier. It's as simple (and as mysterious) as that.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Faith, Religious, Thinking

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• Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.

  Patrick Cleburne

  Education, Teacher, Giving Up

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• Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought so impressed me that I mentioned it next day to the French purser, at whose table I was sitting. He nodded his agreement. "Stevenson is right," he said. "Indeed, if you will pardon my saying so, the idea applies particularly to you Americans. A lot of your countrymen keep so busy getting things done that they reach the end of their lives without ever having lived at all."

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Spiritual, Agreement, Ideas

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• I am very impressed by The Carrivick Sisters, one of the best young duos I’ve heard. The girls sing and play as one and their work is characterised by great musicality. They are not only very talented instrumentalists and singers but they write really good songs as well.

  Ralph McTell

  Girl, Song, Writing

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• Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved. It should be neutral. It shouldn't have a meaning in itself. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface.

  Wim Crouwel

  Real, Steps, Century

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• I refer the largest number of my clients to Payce Payroll because the specialize in the restaurant and contractors industries. I am pleased with the service they provide, competitive fees and responsiveness to clients. What most impressed me was that one of the founders, Gus, came to personally meet with me and a client to establish their payroll software. They truly care about their clients.

  Steve Melnyk

  Numbers, Gus, Care

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• When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.

  Noah Webster

  Exercise, Men, Voting

  Noah Webster (1837). “History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.307

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• The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile contest between environmentalists and hereditarians and turns it into an argument between those who are impressed with what our biology stops us doing and those who are impressed with what it allows us to do.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Merit, Argument, Biology

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• I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.

  Dorothy Day

  Reading, Men, Order

  "On Pilgrimage". "Catholic Worker", December 1968.

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• [My father] impressed upon me from the first, that the manner in which the world came into existence was a subject on which nothing was known: that the question, "Who made me?" cannot be answered, because we have no experience or authentic information from which to answer it; and that any answer only throws the difficulty a step further back, since the question immediately presents itself, "Who made God?

  John Stuart Mill

  Father, Information, Firsts

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.19, 谷月社

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