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“I grew up with a lot of Hollywood films. Cozy farm houses, cowboys, nice flats in New York. Especially as a kid, those things have a huge impression on you.”

Kids Film House Nice New York Huge Grew Grew Up Hollywood Impression Flats Farms Cowboy Cozy Hollywood Films

Author:Andrea Arnold

“I can't tell you how exciting it was, because Vincent Price had made a huge impression on me when I was a little kid. I just loved him in films. And so meeting him and becoming friends with him was a big deal for me.”

Littles Made I Can Bigs Kids Film Deals Huge Becoming Exciting Meetings Impression Little Kid Big Deal

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“People have this impression that I'm a little kooky, but I'm actually very OCD.”

People Littles Impression Ocd

Author:Kate Spade

“I am not of the impression that an overwhelming amount Hip Hop artists are super savvy on Broadway and it's goings-on, but who knows.”

Knows Artist Amount Hip Hop Impression Hips Hops Overwhelming Broadway Savvy Hip Hop Artist

Author:Rafael Casal

“If you only ever heard "Valley Girl," or "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," or a song that has a comedic narrative, you would get some impression that that was novelty music, but that's the only stuff that ever got on the radio. You can make the argument that that's what has confused generations as to what his music's about.”

Ifs Song Girl Stuff Generations Heard Argument Radio Impression Snow Narrative Confused Valleys Yellow Novelty Comedic Valley Girl

Author:Dweezil Zappa

“The deal was we had to have people accompanying us and they would ask us not to film something [in North Korea]. For example, we wanted to film at a certain place and there happened to be a building under construction and it didn't look as fancy as the other buildings, so they wanted us to shoot where everything looked finished and made a good impression of the cityscape.”

People Looks Made Wanted Film Certain Asks Deals Happened Example Building Finished Impression Fancy Construction Korea North Korea Under Construction Cityscapes

Author:Werner Herzog

“All of these years I've been doing my program I was under the impression the Republican Party wanted to beat Democrats. And as the years have gone by, it's become obvious to me that that's not their number one objective.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I can't do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.”

I Can Impression Thanks Barack

Author:Baron Vaughn

“I had recently had the impression they were changing - not so much by becoming less pro-Pakistan as by becoming less anti-India. I was wrong. My visit to [Richard] Nixon did anything but avert the war.”

War Becoming India Impression Pakistan Avert

Author:Indira Gandhi

“Have you ever climbed a mountain? You see, once you arrive at the top of a mountain, you think you've reached the highest point. But it's only an impression that doesn't last long.”

Thinking Long Lasts Mountain Highest Impression

Author:Indira Gandhi

“I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions of the world, being in the woods and taking things in. We're seeing the world as if for the first time. That's just fascinating.”

Ifs World Firsts Persons Wonderful Seeing First Time Accounts Woods Monsters Impression Fascinating Mary Chapters First Person Seeing The World First Impression Shelley

Author:Mordicai Gerstein

“"Statesman" gives the impression that every time a major issue comes up, I'll be popping off. And that's not what's going to happen.”

Giving Happens Issues Majors Come Up Impression Statesmen Popping

Author:George W. Bush

“I knew Shin [Biyajima] a little bit early on, but it's funny because where I really met Shin, and where he made a strong impression on me, was in Jackson Hole. I sledded back to a secret zone way deep in the Jackson backcountry to some freeriding. I got out there and followed some snowmobile tracks figuring it's just some snowmobilers.”

Way Littles Made Strong Bits Secret Mets Little Bit Track Holes Impression Zone Figuring It Jackson Hole

Author:Travis Rice

“The impression that is out there about me is that I'm really hard-nosed, but the people who really know me, know that I am a soft touch.”

People Knows Hard Impression Know Me

Author:Robert Irvine

“Just because we give the impression that life's a certain way because of technology, there are still people having a rough time of it. So there are bands trying to do it, and there always will be. You've just got to go and find them.”

People Way Giving Trying Stills Certain Technology Band Impression Rough Be You Rough Times

Author:Steve Ignorant

“[Barack] Obama did not run on anything. Obama ran on (Obama impression) "I'll be whatever you want me be. If you want me to reduce the sea levels, I'll do it. If you want me to cool the planet, I'll cool the planet. You want health care, I'll do it."”

Ifs Want Care Running Levels Sea Planets Impression Barack Health Care Ran Want Me You Want Me If You Want Me

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I think it was somewhere around age 3 when I fell down the stairs at my house, and I got up and did a Jerry Lewis impression and got a big laugh. And I thought, "Oooh, I like that. I think I need to do this for a living!"”

Thinking Needs Bigs Age House Laughing Impression Stairs Jerry

Author:Brent Spiner

“[Trey Parker and Matt Stone]called me one Saturday morning and said, "Can you do an impression of Conan O'Brien?" And I said, "I don't know." Because that was really... He hadn't been on the air that long, and to be honest, I hadn't watched much of him at that point. So I went to Santa Monica to their studio and said, "Well, what does he sound like?" They said, "Well, just try it one time. Read the copy." And I read the copy one time, and they went, "Okay, that's fine. Thanks a lot, that'll do. That's perfect."”

“When it comes to working on identities, a lot of the time I find myself working with a company that has been around for a while. No matter what they say their goal is, the history and the impression that they have already made in the minds of the public is a real thing that you have to deal with.”

Mind Has Beens Made Real Matter Goal Deals Company Identity No Matter What Impression Real Things

Author:Michael Bierut

“The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.”

Impression Outsiders Exile

Author:Catherine Camus

“I speak as a private citizen and not as a representative of the Executive Branch of the United States government. The impression that people of faith are uniformly opposed to stem-cell research is not documented by surveys. In fact, many people of strong religious conviction think this can be a morally supportable approach.”

“The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of Buddhism to myself, that, if it weren't for certain qualifying clauses, the philosophy would be downright suicidal.”

Ifs Philosophy Would Be Certain Reading Buddhism Research Impression Liberation Suicidal Fascination Clauses Jung Qualifying

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“We know about General John Kelly's military experience and his record there and being a decorated veteran of combat over in Iraq in particular. In fact, that's where I first met him was when Ramadi was shot to shambles during the surge era. We took a ride around there, even a minaret was shot in half and he pointed to that and said we were taking fire from that minaret. My son took that down with a 20 milimeter cannon. That's my first impression of John Kelly.”

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Author:Steve King

“When the US withdrew their troops from Somalia, I recall making a comment that [in] the way the peacekeepers had been withdrawn from Somalia, the impression had been given that the easiest way to unravel a peacekeeping operation is to kill a few soldiers.”

Way Given Soldier Impression Operations Comment Troops Recalls Peacekeeping Somalia Peacekeepers

Author:Kofi Annan

“The visual does seem to me the most thoroughly grasped and recorded among my impressions; sight seems to be my principal sense organ, and "seeing" supplies the key metaphors for reporting the perception.”

Doe Seems Seeing Keys Perception Sight Metaphor Impression Visuals Organs Principal Supplies

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“Andy Samberg is the only person I've ever seen do an impression of me, and I didn't think it was that accurate. I'd like to see somebody else impersonate me, especially if they can do a good job.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Jobs Can Do Impression Accurate Good Job Impersonate

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“It's going to be difficult for [Donald] Trump to overcome the deep first impression that he gave to the Latino community with his comments right out of the gate about Mexican immigrants, with his comments about Judge Curiel.”

Firsts Difficult Community Judging Trump Overcoming Impression Immigrants Gates Comment Mexican Latino First Impression

Author:Julian Castro

“When you're onstage, you can see the front row and get a general impression of what's going on, but you're in your own zone.”

Fronts Impression Zone

Author:Ed Simons

“I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American society. And then the next year, of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. And the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series. All of that made a huge impression on my growing mind.”

“There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. And Alan, who is an old acquaintance of mine, is a marvelous performer in the impression he gives of enormously great perception.”

Giving Simple Answers Mines Depends Perception Enormous Impression Our Time Performers Reserves Marvelous Acquaintance Thrust Federal Reserve

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“It doesn't hurt my voice or anything because some impressions tear my throat apart. [Christophen] Walken is easy; I can do it in my sleep. They all know it by heart. I did it on The Simpsons. I'm surprised that people still want to hear it.”

People Knows Want Heart Stills I Can Easy Voice Can Do Hurt Sleep Tears Impression Throat I Can Do It

Author:Jay Mohr

“The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.”

People Mind Firsts Impression First Impression

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.”

Ifs Want Should Firsts Sometimes Harder Impression Fooled First Impression

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“The term 'human rights' has been too often associated with conditionality, and with concerns of developing countries that in order to benefit from open trade they would be required to implement immediately labour and environmental standards of a comparable level to those applied in industrialised countries. At the same time, debates about the primacy of trade as against human rights legal codes have contributed to maintaining the unfortunate impression that the two bodies of law are pursuing incompatible aims.”

“Sometimes I'm under the impression some of the fights happen that they shouldn't happen because a guy's cheating. Also, I think when something like this happen they should have not only a suspension but also monetary wise enforce a penalty. Maybe take the purse of the fighter to the other fighter.”

Thinking Should Sometimes Happens Guy Fighting Wise Should Have Impression Fighter Cheating Penalties Purses Monetary Suspension

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.”

People Children America Alive Miracle Busy Impression Touching

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“My impression is that staying together as a couple does not correspond to the challenges themselves, but whether the very idea of breaking up is an option on the table. If it is, then some people take it. If it's not, then they will keep working at it. You must know people who were terribly suited who make it work. And there are couples who seem perfectly suited that break up. It's a mystery to everyone.”

People Ifs Knows Doe Ideas Seems Together Challenges Break Mystery Couple Tables Impression Staying Staying Together

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“The first time I got on stage I was 10 years old and I did impressions. I did cartoon characters and I really got the bug for this life when I saw that people were laughing and saw the attention I was getting.”

People Years Firsts Character Attention Laughing Saws Stage First Time Impression This Life Cartoon Bugs Cartoon Character

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.”

Giving Done Use Shows Turns Poor Rich Lovers Gains Sake Impression Disappointed Gracious

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Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

“If you want to see where Trump is moving, look at what the United States neoliberals advised Russia to do after 1991, when they promised to create an ideal economy. Russia was under the impression that the neoliberal advisors were going to make Russia as rich as the United States. What they really did was create a kleptocracy that was virtually tax-free.”

Ifs Want Looks States Moving United United States Economy Rich Trump Taxes Ideals Russia Impression Advisors

Author:Michael Hudson

“I didn't think I was good at anything, didn't do well in school. And then in the third grade, I was going to a public school. And the teacher was putting math problems on the board. And I said to myself - it's amazing how you can remember certain incidents at any age that made an impression - I asked myself why is she putting those up when the answers are obvious. And then I saw it wasn't obvious to anybody else in the class. So I said, "Hey, I'm good at something."”

Thinking Wells Made Said Problem Age School Remember Certain Answers Class Saws Teacher Thirds Obvious Math Impression Hey Boards Grades Public School Incidents Third Grade Math Problems

Author:Charles Koch

“My "mission", if you can call it that, is to connect with my readers on an emotional level and have them come away with a stronger impression of the basic message in the story I am illustrating.”

Ifs Stories Levels Emotional Reader Messages Stronger Missions Impression Illustrating

Author:Floyd Cooper

“Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time when the United States waged war to topple democracies, because back then democracy was a threat to the Free Market. Countries were nationalising their resources, protecting their markets.... So then, real democracies were being toppled. They were toppled in Iran, they were toppled all across Latin America, Chile.”

Giving Humans War Real Country States Enough America Justice United United States Democracy Rights Resources Threat Human Rights Impression Loud Iran Latin Free Market Latin America Chile

Author:Arundhati Roy

“The thing that sometimes gets lost is people look at the harder edge of me ... the leather jacket and the tough rock 'n' roll attitude... and get the wrong impression that I'm mean. That's really something I don't want people to think because I don't think that's the case.”

People Thinking Want Looks Mean Sometimes Lost Attitude Cases Rocks Tough Harder Edges Impression Rock N Roll Jackets Leather Leather Jackets Wrong Impression

Author:Joan Jett

“The fact that people of all colors have been ensnared by the drug war helps to preserve the system as a whole from serious critique, as it creates the impression - at a glance - that the war is being waged in an unbiased manner, even when nothing could be further from the truth.”

People Has Beens War Whole Facts Helping Color Serious Drug Impression Preserves Glances Critique War On Drugs Unbiased

Author:Michelle Alexander

“The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting has been heavily on the rosy side since about 2000. The Bank's cultivation of an upbeat picture affords a very interesting lesson in statistics and how you can, depending on which numbers you present and how you present them, create a more positive or more negative impression of the evolution of poverty.”

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Author:Thomas Pogge

“The fact that Universal Jurisdiction exists in relation to serious international crimes does convey two important aspects of the global reality: first, that such individuals would be held accountable if international law was applied without regard to geopolitics, and second, that there is enough ambiguity about the reach of UJ that it inhibits such individuals and conveys an impression of de facto criminality.”

“It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.”

People Kind May Care Easy Impression Feckless

Author:Jane Jacobs

“Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they were first modeled in clay? Any bone you look at, you always find fingerprints on it.”

Firsts Looks Bones Impression Clay Mold Fingerprints

Author:Pablo Picasso

“My parents inspired me by their example. They both grew up in the Depression, and both of them had to quit school when they were quite young to work, because there actually was no choice. So they've always impressed me with their resilience, their good spirits, their courage. I just remember them carrying on and just doing their lives. They really made a strong impression on me.”

Made School Remember Young Spirit Choices Strong Parent Example Grew Grew Up Inspired Resilience Quitting Impression Impressed Carrying On

Author:Joyce Carol Oates