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• I make fun of guys when I like them. I act like I'm 10 years old. I do it as a test to see if they can laugh at themselves. If they get sensitive, then it's like, 'Um, this isn't going to work.'

  Lauren Conrad

  Fun, Years, Laughing

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• I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Growing Up, Television, Patterns

  "Five Oscars as a Producer, Director and Screenwriter". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 17, 1994.

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• I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, People, Vote

  Commentary on Hannity & Colmes, Fox News, August 17, 1997.

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• The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.

  Rachel Cusk

  Mother, Mean, Attention

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• I know people are pretty well embarrassed just at the mention of colon cancer. Sticking a tube in you to find out what's wrong is not a nice thing. But I can tell them, a 30- or 40-minute test is worth it. We have to make them feel more comfortable about getting screened.

  Eric Davis

  Nice, Cancer, People

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

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• So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Upbeat, Energetic, Wells

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• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mean, Cells, Hands

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

  Havelock Ellis

  Suicide, Suicidal, Mean

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Sanity, Chemotherapy

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• I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Strength, Courage, Umpires

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• I don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it's what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason.

  Will Ferrell

  School, One Day, Acting

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. November 08, 2006.

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• I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn't come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.

  Will Ferrell

  School, Night, Water

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• Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

  E. M. Forster

  Two, Personality, Letters

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• The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

  E. M. Forster

  Friendship, Writing, Finals

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.42, RosettaBooks

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• Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.

  Virginia Foxx

  Iraq, Support, Brave

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• What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

  Brendan Fraser

  What If, Juliet, Audience

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• Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Birthday, Faith, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.

  Teri Garr

  Doctors, Saws, Symptoms

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• In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Book, Teaching

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• If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

  William Glasser

  Teaching, Test Scores, Students

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• When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.

  Temple Grandin

  Blood, Autism, Drug

  Interview With Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com.

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• Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.

  Temple Grandin

  Running, Reality, College

  "A Conversation with Temple Grandin". "Talk of the Nation Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.

  Brian Greene

  Light, Ideas, Space

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• In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

  Conrad Hall

  Aptitude Test, Aptitude, Highest

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• I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Trying, Test Of Time

  "Chromeo Opener Mayer Hawthorne Gets 'funny Looks' From Fans" by Vaughn Trudeau Schoonmaker, www.mtv.com. November 15, 2011.

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