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Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Able Avenue Bring Business Cannot Cultivated Faithful He Him However Lawyer Make May Other People Practiced Public Respects Should Slow Speaking Speech

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My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.

~Alden Ehrenreich

Topics: Always Cultivated Imagination Little Mother Time Very

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When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Topics: Audiences Been Choice Cost Cultivated Film Films Foreign Foreign Language Know Language Making Market Reduced Unfortunately You

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Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore.

~Alex Pareene

Topics: Being Bore Certain Christopher Cultivated Easy Friends Generally He Hence Impress Late Lot Mainly Man Rich Society Type Washington Who

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For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: Anonymity Area Cold Cold War Conspiracy Country Covert Cultivated Decades Grave Height Imagination Left Men Most Popular Projects Pursuing Secrets Some Take Theories Thought War Were While

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In the ten years leading up to 2013, quinoa prices nearly tripled on the back of skyrocketing international demand for the latest 'superfood'. The grain had traditionally been cultivated in the high Andean plateau, principally for household consumption. But as prices rose, farmers' incentive to sell it as a cash crop grew.

~Arancha Gonzalez

Topics: Back Been Cash Consumption Crop Cultivated Demand Farmers Grain Grew Had High Household Incentive International Latest Leading Nearly Plateau Prices Principally Rose Sell Ten Ten Years Up Years

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We have built cities, developed industry and cultivated agriculture - we have transformed the State of Israel into an example and symbol for many other countries in the world.

~Ariel Sharon

Topics: Agriculture Built Cities Countries Cultivated Developed Example Industry Israel Many Other Other Countries State Symbol Transformed World

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Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood into a show on national television at a time when no one was talking about empowerment, spirituality, or our inner lives.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: About Big Business Capacity Certain Creative Cultivated Empowerment Her Incredible Inner Interviewer Lives Me Model National Oprah Oprah Winfrey Our Own Role Role Model She Show Spirituality Style Talking Television Time Who

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America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

~Barack Obama

Topics: America Because Century College Cultivated Educated Free Generation High High School Made Most School Sent Thrive Workforce World 20Th Century

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You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

~Bernard Pivot

Topics: Civilised Cultivated Entry Feel Feeling French French Language Get Gives Guests Highly Intelligent Language Many More Rules Them Too World You

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