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• My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

  Bruno Mars

  Dad, Temptation, Looks

  "Life on Mars". Interview with Rob Tannenbaum, www.playboy.com. March 27, 2012.

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• One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or something like that, and start advertising or selling things. This etiquette rule is an attempt to separate one's social life, which should be pure enjoyment and relaxation, from the pressures of work.

  Judith Martin

  Selling Things, Relaxation, Cyberspace

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• That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. You have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs.

  Reba McEntire

  Country, Song, Eclectic Style

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• Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep.

  John C. McGinley

  League, African American, Disrespect

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• I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

  Ian Mcewan

  Children, Close Friends, Intimate

  Ian McEwan, Ryan Roberts (2010). “Conversations with Ian McEwan”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.

  Angela Merkel

  Asking, Enthusiasm, Problem

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.

  George Mikes

  Two, People, Doe

  George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.194, Penguin UK

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• I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me.

  Sienna Miller

  Supportive, Lucky, Stories

  "Sienna Miller felt "terrible" accusing family of selling stories". www.mirror.co.uk. November 24, 2011.

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• When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you.

  Kylie Minogue

  Effort, Tvs, Group Effort

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• Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

  David Mitchell

  Race, Humanity, Division

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• Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Loss, Terrorist Groups, Manhattan

  "Q & A / Kevin Mitnick / Ex-hacker shares secrets of deception / Mitnick says 'social engineers' play big role in cyber attacks". Interview With Verne Kopytoff, www.sfgate.com. October 28, 2002.

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• In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.

  Mandy Moore

  Children, Drinking, School

  "Remembering the Forgotten Killer" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Hypnosis, People, Looks

  "Living is risking" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2001.

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• I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

  Steven Morrissey

  Artist, Imagine, Solo

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• I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.

  Aimee Mullins

  Issues, People, Amputees

  "'You just don't look disabled'". Interview with Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2010.

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• When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.

  Samantha Mumba

  Shields, Corners, My Friends

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• In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Japan, Circles

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• The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

  Benito Mussolini

  Essence, Doctrine, Individual

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• I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums.

  Mike Myers

  Ukulele, Play, Battle

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• There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Baths, Mediocrity, World

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels, 1955-1962”, Library of America

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• It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Mean, Thinking, Views

  "The floating man" by James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.

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• Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.

  Janet Napolitano

  Country, Luxury, Roots

  "Napolitano defends report on right-wing extremist groups". www.cnn.com. April 15, 2009.

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• Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Religious, Somewhere Else, Organization

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• I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

  Bill Nighy

  Want, Politician, Associates

  "Bill Nighy takes Robin Hood tax to the G20" by Patrick Wintour and Larry Elliott, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2011.

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• I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.

  Grover Norquist

  Running, Powerful, Commitment

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