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I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.

~Conrad Black

Topics: Bullies Bully Contrary Could Cowardly Describing Fairly Hope Intolerant Me Mind None Opinion Rather Terms Those Used Would

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Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

~Dana Carvey

Topics: Abstract Comic Describing Impossible Joke Near Sensibility Silliness Sometimes Sort Star

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Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.

~David Crosby

Topics: About Bang Because Big Big Bang Describe Describing Got Great Great Way How How Many People Important Important Thing Lot Many Music People Played Thing Think Truly Way Were Wonderful Woodstock I Think

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I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way of describing the insides of David Hasselhoff. He is like a protein, clean and easy. That's how I feel about myself.

~David Hasselhoff

Topics: About Because Clean David Describing Easy Feel He How Like Myself Perfect Protein Sushi Think Way Without Would I Think I Feel

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My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

~Deval Patrick

Topics: Because Broke Describing Forbid Grandma Ourselves Poor Said She Temporary Us

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Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?

~Diablo Cody

Topics: Describing Everywhere Feels Herself How Invisible Judy Poetic Suddenly

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The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?

~Dwight Schultz

Topics: Bodies Craft Describing Had Hundred Incident Instance Lives Military Myth Over Own Procedures Some Three Were Witnesses

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Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

~Edward Witten

Topics: Before Century Describing Developed Elegant Equations Even Greatest Most Nature Out Physics Really Simplicity String String Theory Subtle Theory Turned Very Work 20Th Century

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My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.'

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Been Conventional Describing Far Gold Historical Mystery New New Zealand Novel Really Second Sense Set Though Zealand

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A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.

~Elizabeth Peyton

Topics: About Describing Descriptive Feelings Forget Make Make Up Me More Other Painting Parts People Person Personalities Picture Somebody Talk Than Things Up Work

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