Intriguing Quotes

• An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

  Paul Samuelson

  Greed, Materialism, Paradox

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• The best is yet to come.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Best Husband

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Twelfth Night Thrift Study Edition”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• Live in such a way, that if someone speaks badly of you no one would belive it. Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.

  Kate Spade

  Inspiring, Playing Dress Up, Age

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• Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He's pushed the cork in a bit far this time.

  Arsene Wenger

  Reality, Order, Going Out

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• No far from it. Faaaaarrr from that.

  Manti Te'o

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• I think any girl would throw me under a bus to be within five feet of Robert Pattinson. I actually think he's an attractive guy. And I watched most of 'Twilight,' and I think he was really intriguing.

  Paul Wesley

  Girl, Twilight, Thinking

  "Meet The Vampire Diaries Actor Paul Wesley". www.seventeen.com. June 08, 2010.

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• Be the Woman You Want to Be.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Inspiring, Want

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• It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.

  Arsene Wenger

  Children, Confused, Ice Cream

  "Professor knocked down a grade by rocket scientist" by Russell Thomas, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2004.

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• I'd just say you hurt me and you hurt me only because you involved my family. But after that I'd say 'hey draw nearer to your family because that's exactly what I did.'

  Manti Te'o

  Hurt, Hey, My Family

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• It was a conversation that I didn't want to have with my parents to say mom and dad I missed my flight.

  Manti Te'o

  Mom, Dad, Parent

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• Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

  Terry Southern

  Believe, Firsts, United States

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• I'm proud of this guy. I really am. And nothing that has happened in the last couple of weeks is gonna take that away. He's not a liar. He's a kid. He's a 21-year-old kid trying to be a man and I love him. I really do

  Manti Te'o

  Couple, Liars, Kids

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• I have been accused of not taking seriously the FA Cup on Saturday ... I have won four times the FA Cup. Who has won it more? Give me one name.

  Arsene Wenger

  Names, Giving, Four

  "'What I don't accept is lies' - Arsenal's Arsène Wenger hits out". www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

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• I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

  Arsene Wenger

  Kicking It, Balls, Arguing

  "10 ways innovator Arsene Wenger has changed English football forever" by James McNicholas, www.mirror.co.uk. March 22, 2014.

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• He just explained that he just wanted to help people and that was his way of helping people of, you know, being someone that he wasn't and trying to connect with somebody on a different level too and help 'em out.

  Manti Te'o

  People, Trying, Different

  "Dr. Phil: Manti Te'o hoaxer 'fell deeply, romantically in love' with Notre Dame player", www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2013.

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• I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

  J. C. Watts

  Sports, Organization, Political

  "10 questions for J.C. Watts". Interview with Douglas Waller, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2002.

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• Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.

  Arsene Wenger

  Stupid, Winning, Men

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• Part of me was saying if you say that she's alive, what would everybody think? What are you going to tell everybody who followed you, who you've inspired? What are you going to say? I was scared. That's the truth. I was just scared, and I didn't know what to do.

  Manti Te'o

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "Te'o says he 'didn't lie' publicly, but was 'scared' to tell full story of girlfriend hoax" by Greg Botelho, www.cnn.com. January 25, 2013.

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• It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Wisdom, Past

  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Case of Identity"

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• In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Religious, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.248, Princeton University Press

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• Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Being Alone, Ideas

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• The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, Christian, Book

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• Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences

  Nikola Tesla

  Solitude, Originality, Influence

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• I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon.

  Paula Poundstone

  Thinking, Groups, Needs

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• If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.

  Diane Sawyer

  Curiosity, Rehab, Ifs

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