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• Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town.

  John Waters

  People, Baltimore, Towns

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• I went to the park and saw this kid flying a kite. The kid was really excited. I don't know why, that's what they're supposed to do. Now if he had had a chair on the other end of that string, I would have been impressed.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Kids

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• I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.

  Terry Gilliam

  Thinking, People, Magic

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• No one has ever mistaken me for someone who should be giving fashion advice, but I will say I'm always impressed by women who have kind of figured out their own style and comfort. That's what I find attractive.

  Hugh Dancy

  Fashion, Giving, Advice

  "Hugh Dancy on Men, Women & Clothes". Interview with Jenny Feldman, www.glamour.com. July 8, 2009.

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• I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and they kind of keep their place as they look all around the page. I've always been impressed by how children are so observant.

  Jan Brett

  Children, Book, Reading

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• People are just not impressed by me at home.

  Viola Davis

  Home, People, Not Impressed

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impressed with people who change their minds about things.

  Allan Boesak

  Government, People, Mind

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• I think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you become as interested in the writer as much as the writing itself. It's all these things that make reading so appealing to me.

  Henry Rollins

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  "#tbt An Interview with Henry Rollins". Interview with Eric Stein, www.brothersdepaul.com. January 7, 2015.

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• The Edith Head Trio, I would say, would be even less of a musical career than playing the accordion, particularly because I played the accordion in The Edith Head Trio. I'm very impressed by your Googling. The Edith Head Trio and another band, Tzamboni, were two bands I was in after college that played at tiny clubs to little acclaim. Our Gypsy tango version of "When Doves Cry" was our biggest hit.But we were not destined for greatness.

  Daniel Handler

  Greatness, College, Careers

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• These cybercrime fighters are regarded as the superheroes. They're highly intelligent and have this alien-like, advanced-type knowledge within themselves. It's something that impressed me every day.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Intelligent, Superhero, Fighter

  "Chris Hemsworth Interview, Blackhat". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. August 29, 2018.

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• I was starstruck by Madonna. She's one of the few remaining superstars. I'm so impressed by her level of discipline towards her career. We did have a little chat, and she wasn't remotely intimidating, just lovely and open.

  Donna Air

  Careers, Discipline, Lovely

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I had the same manager as Frank Sinatra, so I got to meet him and he truly impressed me. He had this magical aura - the whole atmosphere in the room changed when he walked in.

  Tony Blackburn

  Atmosphere, Auras, Rooms

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

  Dorothy Dix

  Inspirational, Women, Adventure

  "Letters from New York: Second Series, Volume 1". Book by Lydia Maria Child ("Letter 31" (31 December 1844), p. 284), 1845.

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• The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

  Sai Baba

  Children, Educational, Mind

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• In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.

  John Adams

  Education, Mother, Children

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.75, Penguin

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• In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.

  Charles Mackay

  Running, Reading, Mad

  Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds: Illustrated with numerous engravings. (2 Thle in 1 vol.). I”, p.7

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• I travel a lot. If you look at my suitcase, everything is extremely well-packed and well-folded; people who travel with me are impressed at how organized I am. Some would refer to me as a maniac for this.

  Joel Robuchon

  People, Looks, Suitcases

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• I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when we can go to the moon.

  Alexandra Paul

  Moon, Miles, Impress

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• Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.

  David Zucker

  Thinking, Years, Hands

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

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• Don’t be impressed by darkness. Jesus didn’t do the opposite of whatever the devil did. He did what He saw the Father doing… The moment I have a lesser sense of Him and a greater sense of the problem, I will live in reaction to the problem.

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Father, Opposites

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• If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.

  John Piper

  Falling In Love, Greatness, Light

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• We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan.

  Jon Porter

  America, Size, Pakistan

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• Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

  Bill Johnson

  Size, Problem, Sometimes

  Bill Johnson (2014). “Experience the Impossible: Simple Ways to Unleash Heaven's Power on Earth”, p.89, Chosen Books

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• I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

  John Burns

  Mind, Three, Drink

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• She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.

  John Mayer

  Perfect, Rejection, Flawless

  Song: Comfortable

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