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• Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

  Stephen Colbert

  Presidential, Lists, Winner

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• Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.

  Evan Davis

  Senior, Mean, Editors

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• Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fear, Struggle, Men

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.119, Princeton University Press

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• One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington.

  Ron Fournier

  Father, Skins, Voters

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• I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Writing, Broadway, Berlin

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• There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved.

  Tom Hanks

  Pride, Sea, People

  "Tom Hanks Talks Captain Phillips, Meeting the Real Title Character, Filming on a Lifeboat, Shooting the Movie’s Final Scene and Working with the U.S. Navy". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2013.

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• I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Painful, Mediocre

  "Exclusive: Neil Patrick Harris on judging 'Idol' and bringing 'So You Think You Can Dance' to the Emmys". Interview with Whitney Pastorek, www.ew.com. August 28, 2009.

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• What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and in the country.

  Peter Levi

  Country, Language, Force

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• For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doing it now, it amazes me. It's very impressive, it gives them something productive to do as opposed to getting in trouble. For them to take time out at such a young age is remarkable. I think all kids should take a little time out to volunteer.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Kids, Winning

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• The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

  Anna Lindh

  Records, Development, Economic

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• It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

  Jon McGregor

  Creativity, Years, People

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• I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Appreciation, Responsibility, Cowboy

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Joshua Loper". Interview with Linda M. Pavonetti and Richard F. Abrahamson, www.scholastic.com.

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• That's one of the difficult things of being an actor that I'm still not used to. You have to go, you have to show up at these places where you know nobody, and sometimes with really impressive, high stakes people like Roman Polanski.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Actors, Sometimes

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• There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Deeds, Intention

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• I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary.

  Britney Spears

  Love Life, Scary, Found

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• [O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

  C. Wright Mills

  Pages, Social, Results

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.31, Oxford University Press

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• It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Men, Pakistan

  "Shame". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1983.

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• Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent on that account. It is only when an impressive nature is placed in contact with an impressionable one that the alteration in the character becomes recognizable. Yet even the weakest natures exercise some influence upon those about them. The approximation of feeling, thought, and habit is constant, and the action of example unceasing.

  Samuel Smiles

  Character, Exercise, Feelings

  Samuel Smiles (1884). “Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive”

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• I wouldn't be able to do anything with my vampire horde except make it run around in a herd, but it would be a very impressive herd.

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Vampire, Would Be

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.52, Penguin

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• We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

  Akio Morita

  Believe, Office, Want

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 182), 1986.

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• Shaun has working his audience into a frenzy down to a science; by the time he's done with them, they get excited by the mysterious discovery of pocket lint. It's impressive, but I'd rather watch him move. There's something wonderful about the way he lets go, becoming all energy and excitement as he outlines what's coming next. Maybe it's geeky for a girl my age to admit she still loves her brother. I don't care. I love him, and one day I'll bury him, and until then, I'm going to be grateful that I'm allowed to watch him talk.

  Mira Grant

  Girl, Letting Go, Brother

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• In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Loss, Thinking, Numbers

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• Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison. "It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.

  Maureen Johnson

  Unison, Said, Ready

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.138, Penguin

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• I've seen him be successful throwing the football his sophomore year, I've seen that. I've seen him react through adversity, I have seen that. I'd never seen him react to a new system because we didn't have one. I'd say that'd be the most impressive thing.

  Tommy Bowden

  Football, Adversity, Successful

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• There are spiritual patterns at work in the universe and these announce themselves with impressive regularity wherever human minds and hearts attempt to attune themselves to the cosmos in all its radiant dimensions.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Heart, Unity

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