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I did the whole rock and roll thing that's coming up. I think you're going to enjoy that! 'Burt Rocks', it's called. I like that he's a dreamer I like how positive he is. There's a lot of things I think I can learn from Burt.
– Garret Dillahunt
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I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.
– Ian Somerhalder
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I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.
– Jean Reno
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I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.
– Anthony Horowitz
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
– Nadia Comaneci
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I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.
– Isabelle Adjani
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I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.
– Guy Laliberte
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I believe in karma, and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody, that's all you're going to get back.
– Kesha
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I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.
– Vince Neil
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I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.
– Lisa Scottoline
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I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.
– Emma Bonino
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I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'
– Michael Weatherly
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I am able to really enjoy the positive attention I receive.
– Doutzen Kroes
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I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.
– Jamie Redknapp
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I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.
– Rosie Perez
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I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.
– Patsy Kensit
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I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.
– Kevin J. Anderson
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I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.
– Robert Duvall
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However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.
– Chen Shui-bian
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His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.
– Maurice Ashley
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He is a very positive captain he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.
– David Gower
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Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
– Jamie Lee Curtis
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George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose.
– Josh Brolin
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Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.
– Britt Ekland
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Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
– Lance Loud
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From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.
– Barbara Olson
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From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.
– Mary C. Jones
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
– Yao Ming
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For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.
– Georg Simmel
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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
– Thomas Mann
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For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
– Terry Eagleton
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For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
– Ken Blanchard
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Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions.
– Marilu Henner
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Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.
– Theresa May
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
– Bruce Jenner
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Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.
– Pratibha Patil
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Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.
– Jose Mourinho
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Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.
– Gil Scott-Heron
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Everything has positive and negative consequences.
– Farrah Fawcett
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Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.
– Sienna Miller
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Everyone has things that they don't love about themselves but I think that as a woman its much healthier and more positive to focus on your good parts and the things you like about yourself, not pick yourself apart.
– Miranda Kerr
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Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
– Natalie du Toit
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Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.
– Stephen Baker
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Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
– Stephen Leacock
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Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.
– Justin Guarini
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Each season I find myself constantly inspired by 'The Biggest Loser' contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new, healthy habits is tremendous and the results speak for themselves. I am honored to be part of such an inspiring program that helps inspire positive change in so many lives.
– Curtis Stone
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Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.
– Mary J. Blige
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Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.
– Laura Miller
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Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.
– Paula Abdul
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Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.
– David Suzuki
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Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.
– Rick Larsen
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College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.
– Jerry Kramer
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Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.
– John Clayton
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Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.
– Deborah Norville
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Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.
– David Hasselhoff
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Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.
– Paul Cellucci
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By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.
– Johannes Stark
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But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.
– Geddy Lee
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But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.
– Henry Louis Gates
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But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.
– Alexander McCall Smith
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But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.
– Herbie Mann
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
– Honore de Balzac
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But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.
– Marc Wallice
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But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.
– Godfrey Reggio
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But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.
– Ed Gillespie
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But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
– Georg Brandes
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Be positive and laugh at everything.
– Alexandra Roach
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Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.
– Jeroen Dijsselbloem
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At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking, 'I'm not worthy,' because 'Star Wars' is so much bigger than all of us.
– Mark Hamill
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At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.
– Paul Feig
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At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.
– Franz Beckenbauer
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Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.
– Jean M. Auel
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As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
– Seamus Heaney
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As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.
– Dick Morris
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Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.
– Feist
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And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.
– Nick Offerman
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And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
– Barack Obama
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And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.
– Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
– Feist
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
– Rachel Hunter
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And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.
– Nolan Ryan
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And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.
– Delta Burke
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An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.
– Johannes Stark
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An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.
– Mario Vazquez
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Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.
– Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.
– Aloe Blacc
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Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
– Michael Jordan
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After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.
– Robert MacNeil
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African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
– Mos Def
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A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life.
– Mena Suvari
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A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.
– Roger Mahony
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A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.
– Chuck Norris
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A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community.
– Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.
– John Elway
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A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.
– Tony Lema
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
– Jack Antonoff
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The next time you want to hires someone and are evaluating performance and skill sets, look at the person's ability to get ready fast. When has she been really surprised (positively or negatively)? How long did it take her to integrate it and navigate a positive response?
– David Allen
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I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.
– Gillian Anderson
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If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Happiness is a positive cash flow.
– Fred Adler
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