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The information is not only interesting but important.
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It's a very important and interesting finding. I'm confident that the FDA will pursue this to the en...
RICHARD KAHN
It's a very important and interesting finding, ... I'm confident that the FDA will pursue this to th...
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It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
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It was important for James to win the first bout and get off to a good start.
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She had an interesting and important political role,
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Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break...
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Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. B...
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The hugest challenge is to make announcements interesting.
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What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.
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AMY HECKERLING
I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN
The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
EDWIN LAND
I drink to make other people interesting.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Boy, they sure do make things interesting.
BEN GOMEZ
I drink to make other people interesting.
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN
For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.
DAVID MIXNER
Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
GEORGES CARPENTIER
I drink to make other people more interesting.
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The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, fil...
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I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
SARAH DESSEN
I only drink to make other people seem interesting.
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I drink to make other people seem more interesting.
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She had just enough madness to make her interesting
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I only drink to make other people seem interesting
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A person’s irregular surfaces are what make us interesting.
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That's why I'm staying. To make things less interesting.
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What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.
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Surround yourself with people you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, at least in my exp...
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The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reig...
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Newt was sitting on the ground with Frypan and Minho, all three looking as if they were waiting for ...
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I get to do interesting roles and make a living.
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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN
It may make the trip a little shorter and a little more interesting.
DAN TANGHERLINI
When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
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When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
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Being interesting isn't important. But being happy is. As well as being a person you're proud of
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Nice to meet ya, shank," the boy said. "Welcome to the Glade.
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Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.
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We thought it would make something kind of dramatic and interesting.
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Life is so interesting that sometimes it can make you bored.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments.
GEORGE PAPANDREOU
My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I have chosen to be. (from James Allen).
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James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.
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The most important things in life aren't things.
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You stand out like a fart in a church.
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All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.
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Just because we have different interests doesn't make them any less interesting.
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The most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D.
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And as it the federal district is to be appropriated to this use with the consent of the State cedin...
JAMES MADISON
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty & Learning, each le...
JAMES MADISON
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over...
JAMES MADISON
The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is...
JAMES MADISON
In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take ...
JAMES MADISON
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of rea...
JAMES MADISON
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is t...
JAMES MADISON
I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinate...
JAMES MADISON
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the ...
JAMES MADISON
A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue t...
JAMES MADISON
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
JAMES THURBER
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER
Buy a book in brown paper
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To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper. JAMES JOYCE
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut....
JAMES PUREFOY
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanat...
JAMES SINEGAL
I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, '...
JAMES BAY
I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
JAMES PUREFOY
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruct...
JAMES LARKIN
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singula...
JAMES THURBER
Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the broth...
JAMES SALTER