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• And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

  Michael Moore

  Powerful, Political, Want

  Interview with Andrew Collins, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2002.

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• Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.

  Michael Moore

  Important, Campaigns, Way

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• A whole generation of people that didn't know me from 'SNL' recognize me from 'Weeds' now. People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!'

  Kevin Nealon

  Weed, Jobs, People

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• I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Want

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• Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen.

  Conan O'Brien

  Doctors, Dating, Fine

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• I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Fragments

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Pincus-Witten, Hirschl & Adler Galleries (1986). “Georgia O'Keeffe: selected paintings and works on paper : April 26 through June 6, 1986”, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Incorporated

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• A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.

  Suze Orman

  Clueless, Going Out, Bills

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• If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

  Paracelsus

  Men, Want, Bases

  Paracelsus, George Rosen, Henry Ernest Sigerist, Clarice Lilian Temkin, Gregory Zilboorg (1941). “Four Treatises Together with Selected Writings”

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• It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

  Talcott Parsons

  Body, Facts, Structure

  Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

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• Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

  Talcott Parsons

  Special, Elements, Facts

  Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

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• The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.

  Talcott Parsons

  Everyday, Systematic, Consideration

  Talcott Parsons (1937). “The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers”

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• To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

  Neil Peart

  People, Nostalgic, Terrible

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

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• This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

  Harold Pinter

  Death, Cancer, Cells

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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• New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

  Jackson Pollock

  Airplane, Mean, Artist

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Mean, Differences

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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• In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

  Karl Popper

  Reality, Doe, Speak

  1959 The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934), appendix to1959 edition.

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• Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

  Ezra Pound

  History, Literature, Checks

  ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 1

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• I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Criticism, Literature

  Ezra Pound (1991). “Ezra Pound's Poetry and Prose: 1920-1927, C522-C599a”

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• Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.

  Dan Quayle

  Country, Japan, Two

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• Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Laughter, Patriotic

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• If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

  Ronald Reagan

  Impact, Government, Hands

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.427, Simon and Schuster

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• I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

  Oliver Reed

  Important, Serious, Remember

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• So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to raise taxes on the American people.

  Mitt Romney

  People, Want, Taxes

  “CNN Mewsroom”, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.

  Andy Rooney

  Years, Next Year, Seven Days

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• I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

  Arundhati Roy

  Writing, Political, Bankers

  "'I Do What I Do Because I Have To'". ZNet Interview, www.outlookindia.com. May 28, 2003.

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