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Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I'm comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven't been comfortable.

~Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Topics: Accepted Because Been Cinema Comfortable Declined Even Indian Much Work

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For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars.

~Alex Berenson

Topics: American Analyst Auto Car Company Decades Declined General General Motors Investors Management Market Motors North North American Say Share Steadily Suffers Target Tempting Two Value Weak

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After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.

~Anibal Cavaco Silva

Topics: After Declined Euro Interest Interest Rates Portugal Rates Substantially Zone

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I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and what I always get from the interviewers is, 'Well, you know, we have to ask those things.' I say, 'Well, maybe you do, but I don't have to answer them.'

~Annie Potts

Topics: About Always Answer Anybody Ask Business Declined Get Know Maybe Say Speak Them Things Think Those Well You

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I have oft-times been besought, by divers gentlemen, to set down on paper what I have beheld through my newly invented microscopia, but I have generally declined.

~Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

Topics: Been Declined Divers Down Generally Gentlemen Invented Newly Paper Set Through

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On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.

~Arne Jacobsen

Topics: Antique Declined Enthusiasm Everything Grandma Hand Other Otherwise Out Quality Sense Shop Threw Thrown Understand

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Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.

~Bill Walton

Topics: Because Been Changes Declined Fun Having Hotels Just Longer Lots Made Most Much Parking Say Sleeping Some Staying Swimming Take Though Too Too Much Tour Us Way Well Will

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The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: After Allow America Awe Balcony Black Declined Elected Forty Forty Years Getting Idea Inspire King Luther Man Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Jr Power President Shot Stand Still Without Years

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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Access Apparent Around Children Declined Had Increased Interest Lived Married Me Poem Political Sensed Small Small Children Suburb Thirties Twenties

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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Become Businesses Declined Everyday Innovation More Over Processes Productive Time Tinker Try View

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