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• I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a long time ago when he was an inexperienced, young actor and now with maturity and hindsight, he has learned not to engage the press in his personal life again.

  Luke Evans

  Gay, Maturity, Media

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• Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

  Charles Studd

  Christian, Prayer, People

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• Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.

  Abraham Pais

  Liars, Believe, Writing

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• My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math. ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners. ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC.
  Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career.

  Colin Powell

  Mom, Cousin, New York

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  You are not defined by an Instagram photo, by a 'Like,' by a comment. That does not define you.

  Selena Gomez

  Powerful, Instagram, Doe

  "Selena Gomez Gets Emotional In Speech On Bullying: 'You Are Not Defined By A 'Like,' By A Comment'" by Jelani Addams Rosa, www.seventeen.com. October 23, 2014.

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• Karl Rove described Obama as "the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini, and making snide comments about everyone who passes by." Unlike George Bush, who's the guy at the country club who makes snide comments, and then passes out. Now this characterization, of course, was something Mr. Rove just completely pulled out of his bulbous, gelatinous a$$, but remember this is America, a land where people believe anything they hear.

  Bill Maher

  Beautiful, Country, Business

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• We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is as much a part of human body language as gestures, facial expressions and postures.Even those people who insist that they despise attention to clothing, and dress as casually as possible, are making quite specific comments on their social roles and their attitudes towards the culture in which they live.

  Desmond Morris

  Fashion, Attitude, Clothes

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• Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.

  Lorde

  Fashion, Feminism, Important

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• You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it's a very dehumanizing thing,It's almost like how, in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanizing thing ... My hope is, as we get out of it, we'll reach the next level of conscience.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  War, Next Level, Levels

  "Gwyneth Paltrow on Internet Trolls: 'I See Myself as a Screen'" by Nellie Bowles, www.recode.net. May 27, 2014.

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• I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Wish, Doe

  George Orwell (1997). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

  Ron Atkinson

  Funny, Basketball, Football

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• So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can't be divided like that. It isn't a choice between children and animals. It's our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility.

  Minnie Pearl

  Children, Kindness, Kids

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• The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where comments are made to secure the political base and frighten the opposition rather than to illuminate issues. In political discourse, information is to be 'spun' to reinforce pre-existing beliefs, and to discourage opposition.

  Richard Lindzen

  Issues, Political, Littles

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• Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the process by which we are governed, there would then be debate on how that power is used and how it might be made subordinate to the public will and need. This debate is avoided by propagating the myth that the power does not exist.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Exercise, Everyday, Doe

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• Some of the comments that have been uttered about Islam do not reflect the sentiments of my government or the sentiments of most Americans. Islam, as practiced by the vast majority of people, is a peaceful religion, a religion that respects others. Ours is a country based upon tolerance and we welcome people of all faiths in America.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Inspiration, America

  "Bush Disavows Remarks by Evangelists on Islam". articles.latimes.com. November 16, 2002.

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• This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full as well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease!
  Comment to Hans Sloane on Robert Boyle's letter of introduction describing Sloane as a 'ripe scholar, a good botanist, a skilful anatomist'.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Science, Men, Garden

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• I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.

  Roald Dahl

  Advice, Twits, Valuable

  "Fictional character: Mr. F.F. "Foxy" Fox". "Fantastic Mr. Fox", 2009.

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• I was so happy to be out of there. “Barabas, if you weren’t batting for the other team, I’d marry you.” He grinned. “If I weren’t batting for the other team, I would accept your proposal. You had me at ‘No comment.’ If all my clients were this smart, my life would be much easier. Much, much easier.

  Ilona Andrews

  Smart, Team, Would Be

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.133, Penguin

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• If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

  Jim Butcher

  Arms, Judgment, Break

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.3290, Penguin

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• Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a remarkable product.” My mother was vastly insulted. She put the emphasis on if and lady. Does he suppose you’re not a lady? she says.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Mother, Book, Ifs And

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• He glanced over at me, a smile twisting his lips. "Hey, no advice, Ghost Girl. Guardians should be seen and not heard." I flipped him off for the "Ghost Girl" comment but he didn't notice because Lissa was talking to him again.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Talking, Advice

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.140, Penguin

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• Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning to indicate the woman had been understood, without acknowledging too much significance in what she said.

  Jean M. Auel

  Men, Usual, Too Much

  Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Clan of the Cave Bear (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book One”, p.62, Bantam

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• We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Views, Hands, Ideas

  J. Oswald Sanders (2017). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.106, Moody Publishers

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• Safety from what? Who's after me?" Oh, nobody much," Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. "Just the Lord of the Dead and a few of his blood-thirstiest minions.

  Rick Riordan

  Blood, Safety, Lord

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple?

  Rick Riordan

  Philosophical, Feel Better, Apples

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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