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• All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Voice, Crafts

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• The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

  Brian Eno

  Artist, Past, Focused

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• I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.

  Paloma Faith

  Family And Friends, Acting, Idiot

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• The only person who really impressed me with making new music is Cudi. Everyone else seems to be jumping on the same music, the producer-made stuff, but the one person that's made new music to me is Cudi.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Jumping, Stuff, Made

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• I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.

  John Frusciante

  People, Use, World

  Interview with Evan C Chase, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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• I'm no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn't stopped there... And touring is a lot of work. I'm impressed when I see people like Eric Clapton out there. Gee whiz, Eric, give me a break! I know it's gotta hurt somewhere.

  Steve Perry

  Hurt, Spring, People

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

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• I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

  Regis Philbin

  Retirement, Moving, Thinking

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• I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.

  Karl Pilkington

  Taj Mahal, Wells, Bits

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

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• I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

  Dan Quayle

  Earthquakes, Helping, Magnitude

  "On the Quayle trail" by William Prochnau, www.washingtonpost.com. January 14, 1990.

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• God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

  Quintilian

  Powerful, Character, Animal

  "Institutes of Oratory (Volume II)". Book by Quintilian, 95 CE.

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• I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.

  Nancy Reagan

  Campaigns, Very Good, Wells

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• Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.

  Richard Roeper

  Book, Order, Columns

  "Meet a Critic: Richard Roeper". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. December 5, 2007.

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• I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.

  Major Taylor

  Giving, Champion, Racing

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fire, Sea, Saws

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again

  Werner Herzog

  Sea, World, Firsts

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• Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness of the word "scum.

  Terry Pratchett

  Doors, Two, Giving

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• All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.

  Dave Eggers

  Want, Boring, Impressive

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• You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.

  Craig Thompson

  Soul, Twenties, Layers

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• But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Marine, College, Talking

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• If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

  Sharon Shinn

  Thinking, Space, Achievement

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• Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?

  Peter Kropotkin

  Memories, Children, Men

  Peter Kropotkin (2014). “Memoirs of a Revolutionist”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

  Edward Abbey

  Animal, Hunting, Moral

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• From Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Example, Speech

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's prime-time speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.npr.org. August 27, 2008.

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