Quotes with over-polite

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  • Bjorn Lomborg We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Bob Menendez We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Brad D. Smith We've been delivering cloud-based services for over a decade, with more than 30 million Intuit customers using offerings across a variety of desktop and mobile devices. The benefits are clear: online experiences are simply better for customer.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Bob Seger We've been really lucky. We've gotten a lot of airplay over the years. I guess people keep requesting our songs on the radio, because Lord knows I don't do a whole lot to promote myself.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist We've made a lot of strides over the years in making the game better for players to be able to stay healthy and showcase talent.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Bruce Johnston We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Angela Davis Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Bratt Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Alexander Downer Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.
    Alexander Downer
    Australian politician and diplomat (1951 - )
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  • Marilyn French Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Alexander Herzen What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Stephen King What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Ted Engstrom What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?
    Ted Engstrom
    American Christian leader (1916 - 2006)
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  • Barry McCaffrey What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Ben Affleck What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bill Griffith What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Barry Commoner What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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