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• Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Space, Fiction, Planets

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• The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

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• The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.

  Mario Batali

  New York, Cities, Hamptons

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• All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Waiting, Humiliation

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• One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets.

  Jo Brand

  Christian, Home, Wind

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• I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

  Sandra Bullock

  Integrity, Oddities, Family And Friends

  "Sandra Bullock to Lauer: On adoption". "The Today Show" with Matt Lauer, www.newsday.com. August 30, 2010.

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• A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything different. HR departments often want cookie cutter employees, which inevitably results in cookie cutter solutions.

  Nolan Bushnell

  America, Culture, Cookies

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• I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me.

  Nicolas Cage

  Real, Kids, Enchantment

  "Nicolas Cage, Single Dad On and Off-Screen". "Parade" Interview, parade.com. March 11, 2009.

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• Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

  Dick Cavett

  Mind, Television, Radio

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• Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Education, Religious, Children

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• I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That's a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Kids, People, Comedian

  "Redbook" Magazine, January 2006.

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• In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Strong, School, Kids

  "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

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• 'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.

  Sally Field

  Cheer, Heart, Moments

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• As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.

  Neil Gaiman

  Teenager, Simple, Stories

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• A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.

  Frank Gehry

  Book, Home, Furniture

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• I really am super lazy and doing long hair, especially mine, is a big pain in the butt. It's filled with cowlicks and kinks and curls and frizz - and it was taking too much time in the morning.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Morning, Pain, Hair

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

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• Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.

  Stone Gossard

  Struggle, Fighting, Years

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• There are plenty of bands who never get in the charts and it doesn't mean that they're not any good. Actually, a lot of the top ten is filled with stuff that just sounds the same. I could guess what's in there now - probably a bit of GaGa, Beyonce and some U.S. R&B males.

  Ellie Goulding

  Mean, Band, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.

  Brian Greene

  Stars, Dark, Night

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• Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Sadness, Childhood

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• Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.5, Random House

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• It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

  Augustus Hare

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Baby

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• Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Childhood, Parent, Feelings

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• If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Stars, Book, Dark

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• At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

  Katherine Jenkins

  Weekend, Lunch, Half

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

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