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• It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

  Rob Morrow

  People, Hollywood, Good Times

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

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• We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.

  Jared Polis

  Country, Differences, Together

  Jared Polis Speech Text: Read The Congressman’s Democratic Convention Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Differences, People, Democracy

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• Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

  George Papandreou

  Greek, Reform, Records

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• I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.

  Lucas Papademos

  Strong, Past, Thinking

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• My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.

  Leland Ryken

  Biblical, Done, Way

  Leland Ryken (1984). “How to Read the Bible as Literature”, p.12, Zondervan

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• Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Greatness, Germany, Shapes

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• Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.

  Kristen Stewart

  School, Thinking, People

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• What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of man and the innate indecency of the society. Can we imagine how men would behave if this decency could find full release, if society earned the respect, even the love of the individual?

  Murray Bookchin

  Struggle, Reality, Men

  Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin (1999). “The Murray Bookchin Reader”, p.115, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• Success is... living a full and balanced life in partnership with others to create a joyful feeling of love, contribution, appreciation and abundance, despite how our endeavors may turn out.

  Susan Jeffers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

  Joe Scarborough

  Political, Three, Sides

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• As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Girl, Fall, Angel

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• Let me be clear: Despite Roger Clemens' statements to the contrary, I never injected Roger Clemens, or anyone else, with lidocaine or B-12.

  Jim Lehrer

  Roger, Let Me, Clear

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• Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

  Tom Lantos

  Political, Generations, Information

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• Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not recall an anecdote he ever told me that was not in some way intended to convey a sense of his own superiority to everyone. . One wonders how a person of his character could produce such beauty.

  Gene Lees

  Tired, Character, Talking

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• We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.

  Napoleon Hill

  Successful, Men, Effort

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.

  Meg Rosoff

  Meaningful, Thinking, Journey

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• God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Giving, World, His Love

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• I`m down to Earth, a lover of music, making music and making love. I love to make people happy and I think I`m basically a good person … despite what you might read about me.

  Duff McKagan

  Thinking, People, Making Love

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• I don’t really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.

  L'Wren Scott

  Running, Morning, Challenges

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• I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren't you. They are just things that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that happen you, are not one and the same.

  Colleen Hoover

  Needs, Remember Who You Are, Want

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market.

  Bill Gross

  Yield, Bears, Ridiculous

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• We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

  Erich Hoeber

  Fun, Book, Would Be

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• Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so ready for our rebellious phase we can't help but feel it's safe, contained. It will turn out all right, despite the risk, snug in the shell of rebellion narrative. Rebellion narrative, does that make sense? It was appropriate to do, so we did it.

  Daniel Handler

  Sex, People, Risk

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• The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.

  Chris Cornell

  People, Citizens, May

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