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• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, School, Math

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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• Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.

  Moby

  Cities, Towns, Vegetarian

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• During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marriage, Running, Gay

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• I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

  Susan Orlean

  Beginnings And Ends, Use, Ongoing

  "Dear Reader" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2010.

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• Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.

  Walker Percy

  People, Hatred, Alive

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Rainy Day, Texas

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• And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

  Keith Richards

  Stones, Great Relationship

  "The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards Looks Back At 'Life'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 25, 2010.

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• Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

  Eli Roth

  Talent, Chile, Terrific

  Interview with Elisa Osegueda, www.fandango.com. May 8, 2013.

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• Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

  Salman Rushdie

  Men, Trying, Seducing

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• I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Nice, Government, America

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• I worked at Sears in the Woodfield Mall as a gift wrapper. I'm actually a great gift wrapper, and the customers were so nice to me. I was only 16, and eventually Sears put me in customer service because I was so friendly.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Nice, Malls, Great Gifts

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• Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.

  Georg Solti

  Hate, Two, Important

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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• When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we both walked away with the door still open, if we want to do something together again. So yeah, I would call it a friendly break-up.

  Scott Stapp

  Break Up, Thinking, Doors

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• Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

  Gertrude Stein

  America, Upset, Deals

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

  David Suzuki

  People, Bags, Use

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• My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

  Taylor Swift

  Dad, Butterfly, Degrees

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• Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when she talks to you, she focuses all her calm attention on your face.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Hug, Attention, Faces

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• Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Sleep, Elephants, Matter

  Pierre Trudeau's address to the Press Club in Washington, D.C., March 25, 1969.

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• I'm always friendly and encouraging on set. I want people to be at their best creatively.

  Mark Wahlberg

  People, Want

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• A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Religious, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (2001). “Gandhi's Bible”, Ispck

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• The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting Usurpers, that without a legal incorporation of religious and civil polity, neither could be supported. A mutual independence is found most friendly to practical Religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity.

  James Madison

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  James Madison (1965). “The forging of American federalism: selected writings of James Madison”

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• Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.

  Alexander Smith

  Memories, Fire, Echoes

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.122

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• Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

  Susan Sontag

  Travel, Fun, Vacation

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

  Plautus

  Friendship, Men, Needs

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• The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their uselessness, it will not grudge to any unfamiliar conception its moment of full and friendly attention, hoping to expand rather than to minimize what small core of usefulness it may happen to contain.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Truth, Science, Ideas

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