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• The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.

  Danica McKellar

  Fun, Eye, People

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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• When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.

  Eric Liu

  People, Trying, Taught

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• You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

  Martin Lawrence

  Differences, Looks, Way

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

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• I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Kids, Thinking, Waiting

  "Interview: Ashton Kutcher and Joshua Michael Stern on Jobs". Interview With Zaki Hasan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2013.

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• Thank you, people who say 'Wow, you're really photogenic,' for not saying what you really mean: 'Wow, you're really ugly in person.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Thank You, Mean

  Jimmy Fallon, the Writers of Late Night (2011). “Thank You Notes”, p.181, Hachette UK

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• You reflect on the people who used to be in your life, and it's like, 'Wow, I can't believe that person was ever really in my life.' But people are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.

  Selena Gomez

  Believe, People, Different

  "Exclusive Interview: Selena Gomez". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. May 3, 2011.

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• Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess

  Scott Westerfeld

  Cat, Voice, Familiar

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• I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'

  Nathan Fillion

  School, Class, Sick

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• Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.

  Paul Feig

  Fun, People, Looks

  "'Bridesmaids' Director Paul Feig Reveals How Twitter Saved His Movie and Why Awards Matter (Q&A)". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 22, 2011.

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• There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'

  Louis C. K.

  Old Friends, Doe, Problem

  "Louis C.K. on eating pressure and providing an alternative to The Man". Interview with Nathan Rabin, July 5, 2012.

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• I barely got out of high school and I look back at my life often and go, "Wow, this was awesome!"

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  School, High School, Looks

  "Actress-author Jamie Lee Curtis". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 21, 2012.

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• When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

  Marion Cotillard

  Baby, Two, Parent

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• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."

  Baz Luhrmann

  Art, Dark, Want

  "Portrait of the artist: Baz Luhrmann, director". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2010.

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• A lot of people say, 'Wow, you're a single father of twin boys, that's crazy!' Two toddlers can get hectic, but I wouldn't change it for anything. Every day they teach me different things. The love is there. When you have a two-year-old saying every other hour, 'Papi, te amo. Papi, I love you,' it can't get better.

  Ricky Martin

  Father, Crazy, Love You

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• Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Crush, Falling In Love, Educational

  "V-Va-Va-Voom!" by Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2010.

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• A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

  Ice T

  Rap, Kids, Mastery

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• I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'

  Mattie Stepanek

  Nice, Book, People

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• Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.

  Ben Stein

  Hate, Moon, Russia

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• When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.

  Gwen Stefani

  Baby, Real, School

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• I put a spell on people so they don't know they're working out... An enchanting spell, where they just don't think about it, or over think it, and then at the end they go, 'Wow, I feel good.'

  Richard Simmons

  Thinking, People, Work Out

  FaceBook post by Richard Simmons from Dec 13, 2014

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• Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.

  Seal

  Men, Thinking, Want

  "Seal Interview: I know why Tiger cheated.. but I'd never do that to my Heidi" by Rachel Corcoran, www.mirror.co.uk. September 19, 2010.

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• Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.

  Jill Scott

  Girl, Writing, Perspective

  "One on one: Jill Scott". LA Focus Newspaper Interview, lafocusnewspaper.com. October 6, 2013.

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• When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Moving, Space

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• The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.

  Douglas Adams

  Trying, Facts, Infinity

  Douglas Adams (2008). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.142, Del Rey

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• When I saw you fall..." "You thought, 'Wow, she's a loser.

  Richelle Mead

  Fall, Rose, Saws

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.137, Penguin

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