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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
Idina Menzel
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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
Virginia Woolf
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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.


Padma Lakshmi
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.
Sonny Perdue
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.


Octavio Paz
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Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.


Alan Ball
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I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.


Garry Shandling
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.


Mark Twain
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell
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Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.


Rem Koolhaas
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For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.


Trey Gowdy
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I understand Twitter much more than I understand Tumblr.


Rowan Blanchard
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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
Carl Rogers
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My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.


Gordon Getty
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The Muslim Brotherhood is much more hardline than Turkish Islamists.


Richard Engel
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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.


Max Beerbohm
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I am much more intelligent than you think.


Lord Mountbatten
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All my work is much more peaceful than I am.


Maya Lin
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