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“I very much own the fact that I'm a misfit. The Internet makes everyone realize they're screwed up.”

Facts Realizing Internet Screwed Up Misfits

“I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.”

Thinking Facts Generations Crime Horror Conservative Chosen Genre

Author:Laura Lippman

“I had a terrible motorcycle accident (in the 1970s), in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.”

Years Wells I Can Two Matter Facts Happens Remember Film Names Known Terrible Accidents Bridges Two Years Well Known San Francisco Motorcycle Matter Of Fact

Author:William Lucking

“Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Facts Film Steps Huge

Author:Adrian Lyne

“The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.”

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Author:Martin McGuinness

“It's taken a while, but I've finally grown up and got my head around the fact that the healthier the food you eat is and the more exercise you do, the lighter you'll be. It really is that simple.”

Facts Simple Taken Exercise Lighters

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.”

People Knows Facts Opportunity Deals Evolve

Author:Mary McDonnell

“Just remember, you are not alone, in fact you are in a very common place with millions of others. We need to help each other and keep striving to reach our goals.”

Needs Facts Helping Remember Goal Common Millions Strive Not Alone Remember You Remembers You Helping Each Other

Author:Mike Moreno

“In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.”

People Thinking Way Firsts Facts Literature Seeing Absolutes Moved Baloney

Author:Norman MacCaig

“Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.”

“People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.”

People Important Facts Issues Agree Disagree Important Issues

Author:Rachel Maddow

“The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.”

Knows Way Facts Felt Connections British Ireland

Author:Rory McIlroy

“I used to get embarrassed about the fact I liked fashion. I still get a bit cringy.”

Stills Facts Used Bits Fashion Embarrassed

Author:Stella McCartney

“Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!”

Ifs Trying Stills Facts Feelings Used Parent Mom Proud Band My Mom One Direction

Author:Zayn Malik

“As a matter of fact, I am an uncle. I have nine nephews and nieces. I'm not sure if they think I'm all that quick with a quip. But I'm quick with a spank.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.”

States Facts Use Political Social Leader Honest Security Figures Judging Citizens Data Being Honest Social Security Political Leaders Forthcoming

Author:Grace Napolitano

“Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.”

Writing Facts Culture Opposites Thanks Genre Peter Stigma Thrillers Other Cultures Scandinavia

Author:Jo Nesbo

“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.”

Art Facts Individual Objects Strikes Related Our Society Three Strikes

Author:Michel Foucault

“I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.”

People Enough Facts Voice Television Amount Conscious British British Television

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.”

Facts Opinion Issues Complicated

Author:Daniel Okrent

“Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.”

Ifs Thinking Want I Can Facts One Thing Versatile

Author:Denise Van Outen

“It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.”

Facts Shows Nations Bits Unfair Dividing

Author:Ron Fournier

“It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.”

Giving Years Matter Hard Facts Able Responsibility Periods Giving Up Research Productive Matter Of Fact Administrative

Author:George Andrew Olah

“The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.”

Facts Might Political Left Understanding Criticism Dynamics

Author:Ron Fournier

“Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back.”

Facts Problem Jobs America Moving President Loss Economy Bigger Deeper President Obama Franklin Great Depression Predecessors Job Loss Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Author:Martin O'Malley

“Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.”

Facts Loss Grief Known Television Periods Drama Moved Chaos Intense Narrative Internals Friendly Chaotic Static Moved On

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.”

Ifs Facts Greater Editors Politically Correct Readership

Book:Oliphant's Anthem

Source: Oliphant's Anthem

“But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.”

Facts Natural Tests Statements Remarks Elude Natural History Vagueness Incompleteness Elude Us

Author:Richard Owen

“I remember years ago being on the set of 'Dreamcatcher' and not only did I have such great admiration for Morgan Freeman and was just thrilled to be around him, I was struck by the fact that he seemed to be having perhaps more fun than I was at his job. And I thought, 'Well, that's very promising.”

Years Wells Facts Jobs Remember Fun Years Ago Admiration Freeman

Author:Timothy Olyphant

“The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.”

Wells Facts Form Process Water Views Known Involved Property Substance Chemicals Composition Formal Well Known

Author:Wilhelm Ostwald

“Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.”

Knows Men Made Facts Democracy Sinner

Author:D. Elton Trueblood

“If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Should Facts Political Views Cutting Republican Taxes Benefits Crisis Wealthy Health Benefits

Author:John Podhoretz

“Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.”

World Writing Book Facts Novel Doubt Ready Reader Assuming Prepared Nonfiction Be Prepared Legion

Book:High Tide in Tucson

Source: High Tide in Tucson

“A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.”

Ifs Facts Brain Education

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Don't freak out until you know the facts.”

Knows Facts Education Freak

Author:Shania Twain

“The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.”

Mind Facts Education Weak Odds Weak Minds

Author:Kool Moe Dee

“Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O”

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“Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.”

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Book:Physics

Source: Physics

“It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.”

Ifs Knows Children Reason Facts Natural Wonder Too Much Higher Adults Logic Bravery Rate Cancer Cures Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Cynical Fearful Ontology Resigned

Author:Lance Armstrong

“My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.”

Believe Mean I Can Facts Opinion Mankind Thousand Logic Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Ontology

Book:A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan

Source: A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan

“In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.”

Whole Facts Able Felt Equal Paper Logic Difficulty Solve Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Schemes Disagreeable Ontology

Author:Werner Heisenberg

“My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us.”

Doe God Facts Calling Forgiving God Love

Book:Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith

Source: Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith

“Sirs, you are doubtlessly intelligent people, however, I have a problem understanding how you found a place in prophecy for those I know to be void of a even a single drop of Hebrew blood - without any cultural or historical ties to the Holy Land and in fact simple converts to a base form of Judaism. Clinton eulogized Rabinowitz (Yitzhak Rabin) as a son of David and a son of Solomon. You must know that this man was a Khazar of Turko- Mongolian lineage, and can in no way represent a 'return' since his southern Russian ancestors never made it down to Palestine until 1948.”

“I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what is anti-Semitism is rude jesting, vulgar jealousy of métier, hereditary prejudice; but also what can be considered as in fact legitimate defence.”

Believe Facts I Believe Movement Hatred Prejudice Complexes Jew Rude Vulgar Defence Anti Semitism Hereditary

Author:Theodor Herzl

“It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.”

Facts Historical Jew Witness Ancestor Palestine Assertion

Author:H. G. Wells

“A Jew remains a Jew. Assimilalation is impossible, because a Jew cannot change his national character. Whatever he does, he is a Jew and remains a Jew. The majority has discovered this fact, but too late. Jews and Gentiles discover that there is no issue. Both believed there was an issue. There is none.”

Doe Character Facts Issues Impossible Late Remains Majority Jew Too Late Gentiles

Author:Ludwig Lewisohn

“Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.”

Facts Order Computer Misconception Cancellation

Author:Arthur Levitt Jr

“I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but I go to the movies and then wonder - I asked myself the same question, and I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, why have we gone there? It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap.”

Matter Facts Seems Easy Stuff Watches Gone Comedy Air Asking Unfortunate Matter Of Fact Swearing Hbo Prudes

Author:Brian Lamb

“Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.”

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Author:Christian Lous Lange

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