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• I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.

  Ansel Adams

  Believe, Artist, Degrees

  Ansel Adams (1975). “The role of the artist in conservation”

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• Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of the impressive and the gorgeous, and rests there. Accuracy is not necessary except in the case of aggressive, acquisitive natures, when it manifests itself in a desire to seize. True controlling sensuousness cannot be manifested in the most active dispositions, nor again in the most accurate.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Sunshine, Color, Desire

  Theodore Dreiser (2015). “The Financier”, p.95, Booklassic

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• Since the Kingstonfirst BID started in January 2005, retailers have enjoyed three years of impressive sales growth, which has taken many of us to the top of our peer group. The BID period has also seen Kingston rise to 12th place according to Experian, and 13th place according to the Javelin Venuescore, in their respective retail super leagues of UK town and city centres. I am confident the platform that our BID provides will allow us to continue to maintain Kingston as the place that people love to shop and visit.

  David Barford

  Taken, Years, Cities

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• My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

  Scott McCloud

  Dad, Technology, Mind

  "Scott McCloud's 'Zot!' is out of this world". Interview with Patrick Montero, www.nydailynews.com. August 24, 2008.

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• If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

  Irving Babbitt

  Achievement, Satisfying, Ifs

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.136, Transaction Publishers

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• NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Eye, Lists, Nasa

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• Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Flower, Wine, Mean

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.87, Random House

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• I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

  Edward Hopper

  Artist, Form, Sensations

  Ita G. Berkow, Edward Hopper (1996). “Edward Hopper: An American Master”, Smithmark Publishers

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• Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in school,athletics,artistic pursuits. We also tend to quit without warning. Refuse to go to school,drop out,quit jobs,leave lovers,move,lose all our money. We get sick of being impressive. Rather,we tire of having to seem impressive. As a rule,most of us never really believed we were any good in the first place.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Jobs, Moving, School

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• Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.

  Herbert Spencer

  Law, Utterance, Speech

  Herbert Spencer (1872). “Philosophy of Style: An Essay”, p.38

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• The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. ‘Come on, buddy, let’s go. You get past me, the guy in the back of me, he’s got a spoon. Back off, I’ve got the toe clippers right here.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, War, Fighting

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• All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.

  Dave Eggers

  Want, Boring, Impressed

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• I've been wearing hearing aids for a long time. The technology available now is simply unbelievable. When I compare the new digital products to what we had 30 years ago, it's an amazing difference.... There was a time when I couldn't hear what most people said to me, most of the time. But with the hearing aids, I understand just about everything ... it really is very impressive.

  Arnold Palmer

  Technology, Years, Differences

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• From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule. That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves you, I hope you believe him. At least that's one lie I didn't tell you.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Country, Queens, Lying

  "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2000.

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• When I started making enough money to afford high-end, fancy skincare products with sexy bottles and impressive claims, I decided to give them a try. As a result my skin acted up and got irritated. I think sometimes women may be overcleansing their skin. Some products and masks can be too aggressive and irritating for certain skin types. I believe the more simple, natural, and easy the skin care regime, the better off your skin will be.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Sexy, Believe, Simple

  "Q&A: Jennifer Aniston and Her Makeup Artist Talk Beauty". Interview with Tina Turnbow, www.thecut.com. July 1, 2013.

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• Juan gave Bones the most admiring look he’d bestowed on him yet. “You talked her into going without panties all these years? Madre de Dios, now that’s impressive. I could learn a great deal from you, amigo.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Years, Dio, Looks

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• It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real evil. Good is far less convincing than evil, but it’s because their chemical structures are different. Like gold, good is never found in a pure state in nature: it therefore doesn’t seem impressive. It has the unfortunate tendency not to act; it prefers, passively, to be seen.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Real, Evil, Gold

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• Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!

  Lin Yutang

  Dog, Soul, Strange

  Yutang Lin (1935). “The Little Critic: Essays, Satire and Sketches on China (second Series: 1933-1935)”

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• What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death; at the same time these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Men, People

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.319, Wordsworth Editions

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• Combining valuable insights from his experience in China, his time as the World Bank's chief economist, and the 2008 financial crisis, Justin Yifu Lin's recommendations for development policy reflect an impressive and unique personal journey.

  Kemal Dervis

  Journey, Unique, Development

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• This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You never choose the gold shiny one. Or even the quite impressive silver one. What you're supposed to do is choose the dull little lead one, and then there's a flash of light and it turns into a mountain of jewels

  Sophie Kinsella

  Jewels, Light, Gold

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• You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'

  Amy Tan

  Writing, Ideas, Looks

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• I'm having my platform run up by a movie set designer, so it will be very impressive from the front, but not too premanent. After all, there's no sense putting a lot of time and thought into something you'll have no use for after you're elected.

  Gracie Allen

  Running, Use, Designer

  "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.

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• The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

  Eliot Spitzer

  President, World, Calm

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• An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

  Hugo Chavez

  Years, Machines, Hell

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