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• Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Football, Team, Party

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• I don't expect people to agree with all my votes.

  Arlen Specter

  People, Vote

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. May 3, 2009.

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• We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.

  Steven Spielberg

  Crazy, Ideas, Littles

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• I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.

  Peter Steele

  Pain, Disappointment, Sometimes

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• I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

  Ben Stein

  Wall, Writing, Years

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• You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

  John Steinbeck

  Advice, Want, Know How

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.130, Penguin

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• Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Computer, Clicks, Disclosure

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• Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Media, Causes, Morale

  Margaret Thatcher (1987). “In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986”

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• When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Men, Numbers, Giving

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• By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.

  Linus Torvalds

  Decision, Ends, Staying

  "The Peacemaker". Interview with David Diamond, www.wired.com. July 1, 2003.

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• When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Democracy, World, Plans

  "How Space Exploration Can Make America Great Again". Interview with Chris Heller, www.theatlantic.com. March 5, 2012.

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• Well the beauty of 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' is that men are in every show. To our surprise, some of the deepest healing demonstrations have been with the men - the sons, the fathers, the husbands - because they agree to participate with the wife or the daughter or whatever it is we are looking at, and it is there.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  Interview with Jamilah Lemieux, www.ebony.com. September 17, 2012.

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• We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

  Lech Walesa

  Yield, People, Unions

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• I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

  Rick Warren

  Compassion, Government, Justice

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• Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

  J. C. Watts

  Believe, Government, Numbers

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• If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Country, Party, Gun

  "Harvey Weinstein Calls for Filmmaker Summit on Violence in Movies After Colorado Shooting" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 26, 2012.

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• I don't have to agree with everything a candidate does to support him.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Support, Doe, Candidates

  "Harvey Weinstein On Obama, Gun Control, ‘The Master’ And The Record-Breaking ‘The Intouchables" By Mike Hogan, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2012.

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• To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.

  Ai Weiwei

  Country, Korea, Competition

  "Ai Weiwei: The Dissident". Interview with Hannah Beech and Austin Ramzy, content.time.com. December 14, 2011.

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• I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Thinking, Climate

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• I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.

  Shaun White

  Song, Thinking, Inspired

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• Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

  Debra Winger

  Giving, Stories, Variation

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• This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

  Virginia Woolf

  Courage, Mean, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.59, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Music, Thinking, People

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• Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

  Chris Hardwick

  Philosophy, Thinking, Interesting

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• There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Integrity, Commitment, People

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