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• What is fascinating about a place like Los Angeles airport is that it is lots and lots of people, many of whom have saved up all their lives and channeled all of their energies toward coming to the promised land of abundance and plenty - the American Dream. But as soon as they arrive here they get a crash course in the American reality.

  Pico Iyer

  Dream, Reality, Airports

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• What I find on the Internet is fascinating because whole subcultures are developing. And they really are cultures. They have their art forms, their music, and their language. They have their spirituality, they have new names. It's almost like watching colonies of little organisms develop under a petri dish. You can really see these cultures swarming and growing and developing and spawning on the Internet.

  Jean Houston

  Art, Names, Growing

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Character, Thinking, Space

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• I often say time is malleable, but the reception of an artwork is malleable too. When the culture changes, the view and the way you see that work, your perspective, changes. It's something that you can't control. It's sort of daunting and intimidating, but at the same time very fascinating, extremely fascinating.

  Sanford Biggers

  Views, Perspective, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me. Being of Jewish descent in England always carried a vague sense of being foreign, while not being a practicing Jew made it hard to think of myself as fully Jewish either. So living here in a way just clarifies that terminal outsider position - makes it somehow official, which I like.

  James Lasdun

  Thinking, America, Viewpoints

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We need saints; we need this head - this talking head - to communicate. Every single religion you have people that go in-between, that can talk to god or communicate ideas. Then there are the talking heads in the news every time we watch TV. No matter how complex, you still need a person there to tell you what happened: a storyteller of sorts. I find that fascinating that we feel so attached to this primitive mode of connection, this primitive interface to the world.

  Vik Muniz

  Talking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Book, Littles, Realizing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The fascinating thing about standard economic stories is exactly that: they assume that everybody wants that kind of closure. That all human relations are forms of exchange, because if everything is an exchange then it's true that we're both equals. We walk up, I give you something, you give me something, and we walk away. Or I give you something, you don't give me something right now, and you owe me. So if we have any ongoing relationships at all, it's because somebody is in debt.

  David Graeber

  Giving, Stories, Ongoing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it; it's some people coming multiple times.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, America, People

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• What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

  Alain de Botton

  Want, Married

  "Office affairs". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

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• If I am totally honest, I would have to say that ''Allo 'Allo!' was not my cup of tea, even though lots of people loved it. For that reason, I find comedy fascinating. There is a huge difference between what people find funny.

  Jo Brand

  Differences, People, Tea

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• Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.

  Alton Brown

  Our World, Ice, Take Me

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• None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Hope, Peace, Freedom

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.4.

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• Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

  Sandra Bullock

  Clue, Found, Forensics

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. April 17, 2002.

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• I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

  Nicolas Cage

  Drama, Thinking, People

  "'You've got to be able to break the wall'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2007.

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• Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.

  Nicolas Cage

  Interesting, Zoology

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• I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch.

  Nicolas Cage

  Good Luck, Games, Actors

  "Nicolas Cage GHOST RIDER SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE On-Set Interview". Group interview, collider.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

  Claude Chabrol

  Stupidity, Intelligence, Limits

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• In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sexy, People, Track

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• Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Clarity, Absolute Certainty, Intellect

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.86, Princeton University Press

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• Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.

  Gail Collins

  Gay, Irony, Married

  "Marriage Security and Insecurities". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 27, 2013.

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• For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

  Billy Corgan

  Critical Spirit, Levels, Littles

  Interview with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2005.

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• What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

  Billy Crystal

  Starting Over, Life Is, Frustrating

  "Billy Crystal and John Goodman Talk MONSTERS UNIVERSITY, the Mike/Sulley Friendship, and Creating Younger Versions of the Characters". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

  Christian Dior

  Birthday, Women, Race

  1955 In Collier's Magazine, 10 Jun.

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• The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.

  James Dyson

  Rich, Easy, Flashy

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