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• I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified actor.' But I did think that House was something I didn't have to apologise for. It was something I was really proud of and it was sort of ... whether you liked it or not, it was undeniable.

  Hugh Laurie

  Drama, School, Thinking

  "Hugh Laurie: 'There's a sensual pleasure involved in making music that I just can't get from acting'". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2013.

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• There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Circles, Leaving, Needs

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• A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Gratitude, Character, Personality

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Philosophy, Psychology and Myst”, Library of Alexandria

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• Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.

  Penn Jillette

  President, Competent, Ifs

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

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• I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

  William Gibson

  Fiction, Feels, Reluctant

  Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2011.

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• That's the difference between the NCAA and the NFL right now. They've got to step up and say, 'We're going to do the right thing. We're going to hire qualified people. We're going to hire the best man for the job regardless of what boosters or anyone else has to say.'

  Tony Dungy

  Jobs, Men, Nfl

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• And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

  David Duke

  Jobs, Nice, College

  "David Duke's View Of An Obama Presidency". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 31, 2008.

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• Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.

  Tim Vine

  Style, Different, Comedy

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• Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.

  Rachel Caine

  Running, Coke, Apocalypse

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.225, Penguin

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• Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Giving, Important

  Evelyn Waugh's review of Stephen Spender "World within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender" in "The Tablet", May 5, 1951.

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• The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Giving, Circumstances, Contribution

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• There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Greatness, Special

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• You can prove almost anything with the evidence of a small enough segment of time. How often, in any search for truth, the answer of the minute is positive, the answer of the hour qualified, the answers of the year contradictory!

  Edwin Way Teale

  Years, Understanding, Answers

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• When we escape from this earth, do we suppose we are going to heaven? Do you suppose you are going to the earth that Adam came from? that Eloheim came from? where Jehovah the Lord came from? No. When you have learned to become obedient to the Father that dwells upon this earth, to the Father and God of this earth, and obedient to the messengers He sends-when you have done all that, remember you are not going to leave this earth. You will never leave it until you become qualified, and capable, and capacitated to become a father of an earth yourselves.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Father, Remember You, Remembers You

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• When I sign people's stuff I put down John 3:16 and 17. Most people can tell you what 16 says, OK. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son." But they don't know nothin' about 17. It says Jesus didn't come to condemn us. If anybody had a right to condemn someone, it would be the son of God. If he didn't do it, then hey, we definitely are not qualified to do it.

  Si Robertson

  Jesus, Son, People

  "Duck Dynasty's Si Robertson on Life, Marriage Proposals, and His Unwavering Belief in The Creator". Interview with Melissa Barnhart, www.christianpost.com. September 1, 2013.

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• The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Wise, Country

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.190, Penguin

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• Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.

  Margaret Halsey

  Commitment, Reality, Variables

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.

  James Madison

  Character, Government, Liberty

  James Madison's letter to James Robertson, April 20, 1831.

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• In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the instructions that are given us unless our minds be possessed with a holy reverence of God, and every thought within us be brought into obedience to Him.... As all our knowledge must take rise from the fear of God, so it must tend to it as its perfection and centre. Those know enough who know how to fear God, who are careful in every thing to please Him and fearful of offending Him in any thing; this is the Alpha and Omega of knowledge.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, Fear, Blessing

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• From time to time, ask yourself these questions: "Am I ready to meet my Maker?" "Am I worthy of all the blessings He has in store for His faithful children?" "Have I received my endowment and sealing ordinances of the temple?" "Have I remained faithful to my covenants?" "Have I qualified for the greatest of all God's blessings-the blessing of eternal life."

  Russell M. Nelson

  Children, Blessing, Faithful

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• Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a man, the peculiarities of whose mind qualified him to detect failure of proof, and want of logical consistency, at a depth which French skeptics, with their comparatively feeble powers of analysis and abstractions stop far short of, and which German subtlety alone could thoroughly appreciate, or hope to rival.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, School, Men

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.55, John Wiley & Sons

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• Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and more qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I can't tell you how hard that is. But if you've imprinted your values on the people around you, you can dare to trust them to make the right moves.

  Howard Schultz

  Letting Go, Moving, Numbers

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• Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only creatures who had to manage such strong impulses. Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action. Witchcraft was different- that took spells and rituals. But magic? A wish, a need, a hunger too strong to be denied- these could turn into deeds when they cross a witch’s mind.

  Deborah Harkness

  Strong, Blood, Risk

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• Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.

  Geoffrey Boycott

  Depression, Thinking, People With Depression

  "Geoff Boycott sparks controversy with remarks on Mike Yardy depression" by Andy Wilson, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

  Sam Rayburn

  Men, Race, Political

  Sam Rayburn (1978). “"Speak, Mister Speaker"”

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