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• If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

  Billy Graham

  Talking, Said, Evangelical

  "I hope they'll say that he was faithful". Interview with Katie Couric, www.today.com. June 23, 2005.

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• Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

  Ariana Grande

  Special, Age, Skins

  "Even Performers Like Me Get Bullied" by Ariana Grande, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

  Ariana Grande

  Sorry, Struggle, School

  "Even Performers Like Me Get Bullied" by Ariana Grande, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

  Temple Grandin

  Mother, Teacher, Giving Up

  "Temple Grandin on her struggles and ‘yak yaks’" by Joan Raymond, www.nbcnews.com. February 02, 2010.

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• I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits.

  Temple Grandin

  Thinking, Space, Brain

  "A Conversation with Temple Grandin". "Talk of the Nation Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 20064.

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• I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

  Amy Grant

  Writing, Color, Filters

  "Singer-songwriter Amy Grant". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 17, 2013.

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• It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

  Amy Grant

  Cheer, Tears, Want

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• Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

  Hugh Grant

  Enough, Bunch, Stage

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• It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.

  Richard E. Grant

  Christmas, Depressing, Winter

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• Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

  Al Green

  Believe, Fairness, Obeying

  "Al Green: What I've Learned" by Larry Getlen, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

  Eva Green

  Butterfly, Beetles

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• Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It's just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me.

  Eva Green

  Dresses, Shy, Too Much

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• People think I'm so strong, but I'm very shy.

  Eva Green

  Strong, Thinking, Shy

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• For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

  Brian Greene

  Development, Modern, Mathematics

  BookBrowse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.

  Brian Greene

  Thinking, Form, Very Good

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• The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

  Graham Greene

  Party, Inspiration, Listening

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• There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Powerful, Fate, Player

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• Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require "educational practices and socializing agents" even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.

  Germaine Greer

  Educational, Responsibility, Practice

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

  Judd Gregg

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Senators

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• The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

  Lady Gregory

  Heart, Way, Failing

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.610, eBookIt.com

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• Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

  Lady Gregory

  Prayer, Thinking

  Lady Gregory (2008). “New Irish Comedies”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC

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• And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Hockey, Know Me, Knows

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• My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

  Pam Grier

  Colorado, Homesteading, Emancipation

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• But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.

  Kathy Griffin

  Happens, Ifs, I Can

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• I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.

  Grimes

  Hate, Shoes, Noise

  "One to watch: Grimes". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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