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• I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.

  Patti Smith

  Amy, Cobain, Youth

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• I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I've seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Baby, Mirrors, Gossip

  "Jada Pinkett Smith On Tabloid Rumors: ‘I’ve Seen Marriages Destroyed By Gossip’" by Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2013.

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• I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

  Adam Smith

  Government, Invisible Hand, Economic Order

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.4, ch.3.

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• To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Judging, Trying

  "Chew the Right Thing". Chew the Right Thing, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.

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• When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Doe, Tasks, Environment

  "Oprah Talks to Jerry Seinfeld". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2007.

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• The economic recession in America wasn’t caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Jobs, Loss, Class

  "New Hampshire Debate: News & Updates From GOP Presidential Forum". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

  Carlos Santana

  Giving, Choices, Patient

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• War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

  Salman Rushdie

  War, People, Watches

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• I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

  Golda Meir

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

  "Way of Valor: A Biography of Golda Myerson". Book by Marie Syrkin, 1955.

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• It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sad, Courage, Praise

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.220, Random House

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• Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

  Shelley Duvall

  Events, Boring, Pompous

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• Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

  Fred Durst

  Sound, Phrases, Machines

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• It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Nice, Mean, People

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  The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Real, School

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• My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

  Junot Diaz

  Father, League, Arbitrary

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. April 8, 2008.

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• My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Growing Up, Father, Artist

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• I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

  Kurt Cobain

  Divorce, Childhood, Fatherhood

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• Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.

  Tony Campolo

  Spiritual, Mind, Facts

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• The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

  David Byrne

  Music Is

  "David Byrne: 'It feels like the end of history in pop music'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.

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• There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

  David Bowie

  Brother, People, Majority

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.21, Melville House

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• Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Mad, Intellectual

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)”, p.126, e-artnow

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• On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.

  John James Audubon

  Exercise, Sea, May

  John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

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• I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.

  Mitch Albom

  Heaven, Spirit, Hell

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• Castle isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'

  Nathan Fillion

  Castles, Wonder, Murder

  "Nathan Fillion Interview CASTLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

  Barney Frank

  Power, Perspective, Decision

  "The Sayings of Chairman Barney" by Richard Reeves, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 2, 2011.

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