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When I make mistakes, I just get on with it. I don't try to impress with that killer pass to make sure everybody notices me.
Charlie Adam
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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
Alan Rickman
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Orson Welles
Who names themselves 'The Situation?' I do not take myself seriously like that - not in the least bit - that would be so pretentious.
Isaiah Mustafa
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Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.
Jaime Winstone
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.


Zoe Kazan
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I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.


John Maynard Smith
To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.
Evan Bayh
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I think audiences can relate to the guys I'm playing, those large-and-in-charge idiots. Or maybe I just make them feel better about who they are, or who they're dating.
Rob Riggle
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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.


Ernest Hemingway
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Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.
Nile Rodgers
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.


Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I never want to be pretentious.


Kesha
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We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.


Marshall McLuhan
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It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'.
Matt Ridley
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I am sick and tired of folks that are doing everything they can to try to get a bad bill going, and then they vote against it when the bad bill's got the momentum to go through. We should be doing everything, using every tool in our toolbox, to stop bad legislation from happening.
Matt Salmon
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Only idiots refuse to change their minds.


Brigitte Bardot
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Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating.
William J. Perry
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I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach.
Rose Byrne
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.


Wale