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• A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

  Marie Curie

  Children, Fairy Stories, Hair

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse, November 30, 1936.

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• It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

  John Cusack

  Girl, Guy, Awkward

  "Being John Cusack". Interview with Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2000.

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• I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.

  Jack Dorsey

  Jeans, Way, Fascinated

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• So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

  John Drinkwater

  Kind, Failing, Mood

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”

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• I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.

  Paul Feig

  Believe, People, Stories

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• You're always trying to impress your parents regardless of how old you are. And when they're gone, there's nobody to impress. But I think my parents would be proud of me. My father has been gone for 30 years, and by the time he passed away, I was a lawyer. I hope he would be impressed.

  Raymond Kelly

  Father, Thinking, Parent

  Source: playboysfw.kinja.com

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• Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

  John Mayer

  Mother, Trying, Favourite

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• When I was trying to impress Kate, I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.

  Prince William

  Fire, Trying, Would Be

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• Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.

  Helen Fisher

  Sports, Sex, Exercise

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• My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Selfish, Simple, People

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• From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

  Jane Austen

  Selfish, Men, Feelings

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.133

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• Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Art, Lovely, Littles

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• 'De nada,' replied Gregorius. The Portuguese couple sat down, the train went on. Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it had never stopped impressing him.

  Pascal Mercier

  Morning, Children, Real

  "Night Train To Lisbon".

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• Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works.

  John Cleese

  Technology, Instruction, Engineers

  "Die Another Day". Interview with Nev Pierce, www.bbc.co.uk. November 20, 2002.

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• Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

  Meir Kahane

  Easter, Middle East, Goodness

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• I can cook a few things. I always save the same recipes to impress my friends, and I always do two or three things, so they think I can cook. But I don't know how to do anything else.

  Penelope Cruz

  Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.

  Ellen G. White

  Individual Effort, People, Church

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV”, p.953, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I feel really comfortable playing to people who've never heard Beach House before. We've always had fun opening because you get to try to impress people.

  Alex Scally

  Beach, Fun, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

  Don Van Vliet

  Bob, Slugs, Dylan

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• When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.

  Danica McKellar

  Crush, Thinking, Guy

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• If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Want, Honest

  "The Heart Condition That Will Set You Free" by Joyce Meyer, www.christianpost.com. March 5, 2011.

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• Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Trying, Jargon

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• As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

  Brad Paisley

  Song, Writing, Player

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

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• In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

  Brad Paisley

  Past, Guitar, Typical

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

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• But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

  Keanu Reeves

  Thinking, Talking, Watches

  "Actor Keanu Reeves". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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