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• Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Mind, Brain, West

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• The world's a fascinating place right now.

  Alex Gansa

  World, Right Now

  Interview with Kris Kitto, thehill.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.

  Thomas Langmann

  Book, Years, Stories

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• I am sorry to be leaving the BBC. I have enjoyed a fascinating seven years at the corporation and am particularly proud to have played a small part in the development of the BBC's Global News services, BBC World Service and BBC World.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Sorry, Years, Leaving

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• Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.

  Sada Thompson

  Character, Humans, Persons

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• When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.

  Sada Thompson

  Believe, Acting, Doe

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• In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and the Ashleys - who in increasingly brilliant settings and catalogues sold rather different visions of what the new ideal upper-middle-y life looked like.

  Peter York

  Two, Vision, Different

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• I think it's absolutely fascinating that in Berlin the parliament can discuss actively the role of their soldiers in Afghanistan because is it still possible, literally, for a German soldier to take up arms.

  Stephen Daldry

  Thinking, Soldier, Roles

  "Exclusive: Director Stephen Daldry Interview THE READER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 11, 2008.

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• My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo,' and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air.

  Dave Willis

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Dana Snyder and Dave Willis on Aqua Teen Hunger Force's limitless potential". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2009.

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• In fashion, it’s always better to be an interesting person than a beautiful one. Character is much more fascinating than pure good looks.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Beautiful, Fashion, Character

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• One of the things I find fascinating about God's creation is the way he seems to temper the negative environmental elements with corresponding positive ones. For instance, without the nearly ceaseless rains of the northwest, no incomparable green scenery would greet the eye from all directions. And the snow that snuggles atop Mt. Hood, Mt. Rainier, and Mt. St. Helens would not exist if, at lower elevations, there were no rain. . . . God's creative style ensures that something wonderful will offset something less than wonderful. In everything God seems to be balanced.

  Marilyn Meberg

  Rain, Eye, Snow

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• Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

  Winston Churchill

  Fun, Lovely, Looks

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

  Winston Churchill

  Garden, Growth, Problem

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying, and analyzing this fascinating culture, is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase.

  Dave Barry

  Reading, Japan, Cities

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.205, Ballantine Books

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• I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.

  Diane Ackerman

  Rain, Book, Fall

  "Understanding writers, down to the letter / How do authors think? Interviews get behind the words to the creative process" by Steve Weinberg, www.sfgate.com. September 11, 2005.

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• I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.

  Prince Philip

  Believe, Book, Communication

  "Do Books Matter?". Book edited by Brian Baumfield, 1973.

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• Culture and, within culture, music are the best and most fascinating thing that the German capital has to offer internationally. It is putting that at risk.

  Simon Rattle

  Risk, Culture, Offers

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• Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

  Michael Heseltine

  Politics, Stretching, Obsessive

  "Noble obliges". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2006.

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• It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

  Stephen Bayley

  Shoes, Insecurity, Mechanic

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• Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating

  Mark Haddon

  Writing, Empathy, Humdrum

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

  Judy Blume

  Character, Library, Never Forget

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• We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Renewal, Form

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 52), 2002.

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• Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands which gave her a very creepy aura. I didn't want to animate cosmic gowns. Most Medusas you see in the classics have flowing robes which would be mad to even try to animate.

  Ray Harryhausen

  Hands, Snakes, Mad

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• The fascinating thing about the studio was that there was no story department. They would put a little notice up on the bulletin board saying: 'The next Oswald will take place at the North Pole. Anybody having any gags, please turn them in before such a date.' If you turned in gags regularly, the way Tex Avery, Cal Howard, Jack Carr and two or three others of us did, you'd be called into the gag meeting. The group would go into Walt's office and talk about whatever the subject of the cartoon was. Walt would put it into some kind of form and that was the story--no scripts, no storyboards.

  Walter Lantz

  Two, Office, Cartoon

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• Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Games, Wonderful

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