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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.

~Ada Louise Huxtable

Topics: Awful Dubious Excellent Great Job Like Saying Undertaking Which Would

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If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don't see it anywhere else, I'll just go right to the source and check it out.

~Al Michaels

Topics: Anywhere Anywhere Else Blog Check Dubious Else Go Just Out Right Say See Site Something Source Web Web Site I See

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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: According Affairs Being China Department Distinction Division Dubious Economic Expected India Most Nation Nations Population Social United United Nations World

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Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Dubious Giving Literature Merely Out Positively Prizes Seem Those Which

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That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.

~Benny Goodman

Topics: Carnegie Carnegie Hall Dubious Expected Experience First Great Great Experience Hall Just Knowing Little Me Night Not Knowing Put Thing Up Us Would

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I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

~Bjorn Ulvaeus

Topics: Believe Dubious Faith Highly Religious Religious Faith Schools I Believe I Believe That

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When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

~Brian Eno

Topics: About Action Agenda Course Devious Discussion Dubious Everyone False Governments Highly Images Intelligence Language Leaks Making Only Our Selected Sell Sure Talking The Only Thing Thing Us Want Weak

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My background with acting is deeply interwoven with my family life and my childhood. It's a 'Peter Pan'-like narrative, something that was golden but could also be a bit dubious.

~Cole Sprouse

Topics: Acting Also Background Bit Childhood Could Deeply Dubious Family Family Life Golden Interwoven Life Narrative Peter Something

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That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.

~Daniel Okrent

Topics: About Also Ask Bureau Dubious Face Figures First Hard Me Questions Quite Really Relentless Reporters Suspicious Sympathize Those Times Tough Washington Week Were Who

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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Abstinence Always Am Ants Defenders Dubious Handful Idea Practice Shocked Since Still Surely Worst I Am

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