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• I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.

  Jane Asher

  Children, Husband, Young

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• My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

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• The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the "Holy Grail" is economic growth.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Country, Blood, Holy Grail

  "Spotlight: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, cinematographer and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. February 7, 2011.

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• The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Computer, Young

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• To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed that is, the concept of length involves as much as and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Length, Operations, Fixed

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• That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Differences, Culture

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.79, Univ of California Press

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• The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of becoming man takes place in an interrelationship with an environment. (...) From the moment of birth, man's organismic development, and indeed a large part of his biological being as such, are subjected to continuing socially determined interference.

  Peter L. Berger

  Men, Body, Becoming

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• There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Class, People

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• Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Elements, Want

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• To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for the marginal tax rate is to forget that people have burned witches, gone to war on a whim, risen to the defense of Joseph Stalin and believed Orson Welles when he told them over the radio that the Martians had landed.

  James Grant

  Business, War, People

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• I was a very determined kid. I couldn't imagine any other life for myself. This happens to kids who are different in any way. How am I going to make a life? Who am I going to be when I grow up? Will there be a place for me in the world? Acting gave me a sense of purpose, but it also gave me a sense that I would survive, that I would find my place.

  Linda Hunt

  Growing Up, Kids, Acting

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• I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance connection, I applied for and won a place at the local drama school. I was on my way.

  Celia Imrie

  Drama, School, Connections

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• I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Father, Men, Names

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• Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those plants can pump into the air. None. We limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury, and sulfur, and arsenic in our air and water, but power plants can dump as much carbon pollution into our atmosphere as they want. It's not smart, it's not right, it's not safe, and I determined it needs to stop.

  Barack Obama

  Smart, America, Air

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• If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

  R. Kelly

  Struggle, Kids, Fire

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

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• I'm a Taurean, so I'm very passionate and determined and materialistic. Down the years, I've spent a lot of money and saved a bit of money and had a lot of fun.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Fun, Years, Passionate

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

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• The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Opportunity, Rights, Government

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• The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.

  Azar Nafisi

  Past, Rights, Iran

  "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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• The fans have been great, they've stuck with me through a lot of hit-less years and I think they were as determined as I was that it was time to put an end to the lack of hits.

  John Otway

  Thinking, Years, Fans

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• The key to enlightenment lies in a secret that very few people have ever known, but which Jesus knew well. The way you will experience and feel about yourself is not determined by how other people look at and think about you.

  Gary Renard

  Jesus, Lying, Thinking

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• A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.

  David Limbaugh

  Greatness, America, President

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• The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.

  Lucas Papademos

  Country, Government, Order

  "General strike brings Greece to a surprisingly calm halt" by Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

  Ricky Ponting

  Succeed, Driven

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Moneymaking was never anything to me. I was happy never making money; I just was happy doing things I liked. But I fell into the money thing. I now don't feel guilty about it, but I am determined to give away the bulk of it and enjoy doing it.

  David Rubenstein

  Giving, Making Money, Guilty

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• I am determined to honour the confidence which has been extended to us by the people of our great land. And I say to all of those who have voted for us today, I say to each and every one of them that I will be a prime minister for all Australians.

  Kevin Rudd

  Land, People, Today

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

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