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• I had never had any experience of autism before and I would come home and look at my son, Billy, who is now two, and be absolutely paranoid, particularly because he loves Thomas the Tank Engine, and lots of autys love Thomas. But he is not very good at pointing, and autistic children absolutely love pointing.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Children, Home, Son

  "Helena's Secret Pain". Interview with Liz Jones, www.standard.co.uk. November 16, 2005.

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• Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was the first nation in history to recognize that public education for every citizen, regardless of class or station, was vital to its future . . .

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Class, Decision

  Mitt Romney (2010). “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness”, p.196, Macmillan

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• One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.

  Bram Cohen

  Attitude, School, Care

  "Bram Cohen: Creator of BitTorrent". WrongPlanet.net, March 09, 2006.

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• What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

  Bill Shorten

  Teaching, Games, Safety

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.

  Meryl Streep

  Ideas, People, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• I love tweeting. I tweet every day. I stay in contact, I tell them what I'm doing. I've posted pictures of my books on there and they buy the books. It's a very good way to communicate with people, but I can't go to bed without tweeting something. I have to tweet something.

  Carl Reiner

  Book, People, Way

  "Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.

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• I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. But at the end, that article wasn't very complimentary, because the author suggested that I wasn't doing a very good job, and that I ought to be replaced by a "professional." Of course, there isn't any "God of the Internet." The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

  Jon Postel

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "NetWorker" Magazine, Summer 1997.

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• I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don't read much.. ..Probably the only reason I'm painter is because I couldn't read yet I love to write, but when I write I know what I'm writing, but when I'm reading I can't see it, because it goes from all sides of the page at once. But that's very good for printmaking.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Struggle, Reading, Writing

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• Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.

  Simon Blackburn

  Responsibility, Culture, Contemporary

  "Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy". Book by Simon Blackburn, 1999.

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• Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a few years I had an off-and-on romance with her.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Girl, Years, Romance

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 45), 1991.

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• You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Believe, Thinking

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• When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.

  Eamon

  Football, Play, Psychology

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• When it appears as though the governors of the Federal Reserve believe that the end of the rate increases is near, that's very good news for investors. A lack of ambiguity from the Federal Reserve is always a little bit of a shocker.

  Hugh S. Johnson

  Believe, News, Littles

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• We had a very good number of mayors participate this year. All the mayors rode out with regular volunteers as well as members of our advisory council and our board members.

  Amy Jackson

  Years, Numbers, Volunteer

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• When my mind is operating at its peak, it should depress me to think that this is the best I can do, because it's not very good at all. When my mind is operating normally, I should be even more depressed.

  John S. Hall

  Depressing, Thinking, Mind

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.

  John Banville

  Half, Letters, Firsts

  "A Day in the Life". New York Review of Books Article, www.nybooks.com. May 26, 2005.

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• The secret of Big Macs is that they're not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same way.

  Joel Spolsky

  Secret, Way, Bigs

  "Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef". www.joelonsoftware.com. January 18, 2001.

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• We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Spiritual, Play, World

  "Buzz Aldrin: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 25, 2012.

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• The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don't get that Nobel Prize are better than people... than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize. I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature.

  Jack Steinberger

  Thinking, People, Progress

  Interview with Adam Smith, www.nobelprize.org. July 2008.

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• People aren't very good listeners, by nature. Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done.

  Mike Tomlin

  Jobs, Simple, Ideas

  "Inside Tomlin's Style: Humility, Words Matter for Steelers Coach". Interview with Jarrett Bell, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 31, 2009.

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• I don't know if I am a very good politician. I'm not a good hater.

  Nick Xenophon

  Politician, Knows, Ifs

  "From Brash Young Liberal to Senate Linchpin for Nick Xenophon" by Jamie Walker, www.theaustralian.com.au. June 28, 2008.

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• We obviously can't compete with the big clubs trying to sign world class stars, but we've already identified some very good players and we'll see what happens.

  Paul Jewell

  Stars, Player, Class

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• I really rate Paul Scholes, because he hasn't got the high profile of many of the Manchester United players, he doesn't get too much attention, but he is one very good player. He is an intelligent player, he works hard and he scores some great goals. He is not flamboyant and is a quiet lad off the pitch but he is a tremendous asset to Manchester United and to England. He has already got my vote as player of the year.

  Tony Adams

  Hard Work, Intelligent, Player

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• My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• I think that it is very good for people to talk about their paranormal experiences and share stories about things that they cannot explain.

  Rosemary Ellen Guiley

  Thinking, People, Stories

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