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Many children fully realize their parents see them as astonishing creatures and incorporate that into their daily presentations. That is, they throw their stuff on the floor because if you are truly amazing you can pretty much do what you want. Right?

~Bill O'Reilly

Topics: Amazing Astonishing Because Children Creatures Daily Floor Fully Incorporate Many Much Parents Pretty Realize Right See Stuff Them Throw Truly Want You

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For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.

~Brendan O'Carroll

Topics: Absolutely Astonishing Been Brown Come First Many Middle Nowhere People Piece Radio Series Written Wrote Mrs

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Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art.

~Brian Cox

Topics: Art Astonishing Because Color Director Feisty Filmmaker Filmmaking Guy He His Incredibly Lee Lover Misunderstood Opposed People Politics Review Sometimes Spike Think Wonderful I Think Ah

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Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets.

~Brian Kernighan

Topics: Astonishing Bell Cope Corporate Decades Fell Had Hard Hard Times Labs Many Markets Owner Place Shrinking Some Somewhat Telecom Though Times Years Years Ago

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Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

~Bruce Beresford

Topics: Astonishing Big Come Everyone Hats Mexicans Mexico Nobody Photographs Seen Thing Those Wearing Wears You

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I love people who aren't embarrassed. I'm always embarrassed, so it's always astonishing to me when people aren't like that.

~Cecily Strong

Topics: Always Astonishing Embarrassed Like Love Me People Who I Love

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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

~Charles Baudelaire

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When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Against Aside Astonishing Athletic Cup Each Effort Even Focus Game Germans Historic Interests Me Mexico Old Only Other Over Portugal Push Resilient Run Soccer Team Thirteen Unlucky Victory Win World World Cup Years

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The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: Amount Astonishing Historically Online People Unprecedented Writing

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Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

~Dan Kaminsky

Topics: Accept Astonishing Because Consequences Fast Incredibly Innovation Loops People Results Software Tends Tolerable

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