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• My government is going to deal with all forms of corruption. White-collar corruption will be high on the list and we are going to plug all gaps that are being used by corrupt leaders (and) business people.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Government, White, People

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• On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.

  Patsy Kensit

  Marriage, Breakup, Life Is

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• People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Clothes, People, Singing

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• I felt like a piece of trash. I felt dirty and I felt used and I was disappointed.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Dirty, Pieces, Trash

  "Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield", www.cnn.com. May 7, 2014.

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• Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.

  David Milne

  Powerful, White, Paper

  David P. Silcox, David Milne (1996). “Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne”, p.284, University of Toronto Press

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• The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.

  Adam Rickitt

  Keys, Numbers, Email

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• When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Appreciation, Art, Long

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• I used to hate being different. I used to cry. I wanted to be blonde-haired and blue-eyed like all of my girlfriends. My mom and dad would feel so badly - 'No, it's OK. You'll be happy you're different later.

  Kiana Tom

  Mom, Girlfriend, Dad

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• I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

  Edgar Winter

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Coach John Wooden used seven players at UCLA. Coach Denny Crum used to say, 'The more moving parts you have, the greater the chance you have for a breakdown.' I think there's a lot of veracity to that.

  Skip Prosser

  Moving, Player, Thinking

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• In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.

  David Cameron

  Past, Thinking, People

  "Tories claim 'big change' on poor". news.bbc.co.uk. November 24, 2006.

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• Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of your dog's toenails clicking on the wood floor, or hear the familiar song your bird used to sing. Our pets do come back to visit us.

  Sylvia Browne

  Dog, Song, Crazy

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• When I used to do the action scenes, I would have to play it rough. If you hit an actress accidentally, she would usually take it on the chin and say, `Don't do that again.' But with the guys, they would put ice on it, take a 20-minute break and ask for x-rays. It was unbelievable.

  Jessica Alba

  Ice, Play, Guy

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• I want to say categorically that all the vouchers that I have myself used were paid for, and I know nothing about any others that may have been abused.

  Motsoko Pheko

  May, Want, Vouchers

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• A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged with more potent colour than the other. Line blocks are nearly always printed with some variation of tone, and often in colour too.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Beautiful, Block, Cutting

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• If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Mean, Cooking, Said

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• Of course, your ideas can be stolen... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment... Ultimately, an idea isn't yours; it's only your take on something.

  Peter Wolf

  Thinking, Ideas, Compliment

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• Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.

  Eric Maisel

  Needs, Fabric, Affirmation

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing.

  Jonathan Adler

  Orange, Neutrality, Rooms

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• Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Reading, Writing, School

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• Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Fall, Air, Wind

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.106, University of Chicago Press

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• As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

  Robert Genn

  Photography, Artist, Loyal

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• If you do not yet know where you fit, I suggest you try seeking it in receptive silence. I used to walk amid the beauties of nature, just receptive and silent, and wonderful insights would come to me.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Silence, Vision, Trying

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.7, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in our streams. Many waterways are covered with oil slicks and contain growths of algae that destroy productive life and make the water unfit for recreation. "Polluted Water-No Swimming" has become a familiar sign on too many beaches and rivers. A lake that has served many generations of men now can be destroyed by man in less than one generation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Beach, Swimming, Men

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• The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

  Will Rogers

  Educational, School, Nostalgia

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