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"I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!"

"I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!"

Lindsay Lohan, American Actress

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"Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it."

"Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it."

Elia Kazan, American Director

Fact, Facts, Mystery, Secrecy, Suspicion

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"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved."

"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved."

Tom Wolfe, American Journalist

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"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American Politician

Fact, Facts, Opinion

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"You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on."

"You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on."

Harry S. Truman, American President

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"Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed."

"Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed."

Terry Zwigoff, American Director

Fact, Film, First, Want

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"My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India."

"My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India."

George Woodcock, Canadian Writer

Fact, University

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"There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better."

"There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better."

R. Lee Ermey, American Soldier

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"Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact."

"Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact."

Jane Haddam, American Writer

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"Fact is based upon vulgar matter."

"Fact is based upon vulgar matter."

Charles Olson, American Poet

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"As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts."

"As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts."

Theo Van Gogh, Dutch Director

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"In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think."

"In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think."

Neil Innes, British Writer

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"But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders."

"But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders."

Julius Streicher, German Soldier

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"I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far."

"I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far."

Marta Kristen, American Actress

Fact, Housewife, Mind

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"Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two."

"Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two."

Caryl Chessman, American Celebrity

Fact, Light, Names

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"A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free."

"A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free."

Nat Friedman, American Businessman

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"You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself."

"You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself."

Joan Sutherland, Australian Musician

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"The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning."

"The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning."

Erno Rubik, Hungarian Inventor

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"Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity."

"Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity."

Jean Genet, French Dramatist

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"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly."

"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly."

Linus Pauling, American Scientist

Fact, Facts, Scientists

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"Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish."

"Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish."

Larry David, American Actor

Fact, May, Nothing

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"But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it."

"But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it."

Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist

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"Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems."

"Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems."

Talcott Parsons, American Sociologist

Fact, Facts, Interest, Problems, Solution

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"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."

"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."

Edward Teller, American Physicist

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"Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person."

"Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person."

Todd Akin, American Politician

Fact, Information, May, Now

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"For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks."

"For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks."

Alexis Bledel, American Actress

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"The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor."

"The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"Facts do not speak."

"Facts do not speak."

Henri Poincare, French Mathematician

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"Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?"

"Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?"

Garrett Fort, American Writer

Fact, Superstition, Tomorrow, Yesterday

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"Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities."

"Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities."

Thomas Sowell, American Economist

Fact, Facts, Theories, Visions

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"Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it."

"Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it."

Zach Wamp, American Politician

Fact, Intentions, Nations, Now

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"Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law."

"Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

Fact, Law, Nixon

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"I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me."

"I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me."

Sid Vicious, English Musician

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"A great deal has been accomplished by the team, and I do think it important that it goes on and it is allowed to reach its full conclusion. In fact, I really believe it ought to be better resourced and totally focused on WMD; that that is important to do it."

"A great deal has been accomplished by the team, and I do think it important that it goes on and it is allowed to reach its full conclusion. In fact, I really believe it ought to be better resourced and totally focused on WMD; that that is important to do it."

David Kay, American Scientist

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"Facts are counterrevolutionary."

"Facts are counterrevolutionary."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"These are facts, these are not imaginary things."

"These are facts, these are not imaginary things."

Iyad Allawi, Iraqi Statesman

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"I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't."

"I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't."

Jonathan Dimbleby, British Writer

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"Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts."

"Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts."

Paul de Man, Belgian Critic

Fact, Facts, Metaphors

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"In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind."

"In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind."

Nathan Deal, American Politician

Fact, Nations, Research, Support

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

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

Daniel Okrent, American Editor

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"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."

"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."

Margaret Fuller, American Critic

Fact, Man, Radical, Woman

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"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish."

"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish."

David Hume, Scottish Philosopher

Fact, Falsehood

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"In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role."

"In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role."

Sarah Chalke, Canadian Actress

Fact, School, Want

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"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."

"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."

Norman Mailer, American Novelist

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"The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it is fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit."

"The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it is fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit."

Wayne Dyer, American Psychologist

Fact, Understanding

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"The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real."

"The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real."

Simon Pegg, British Comedian

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"I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me."

"I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me."

Ryan White, American Celebrity

Fact, Facts, Kids, Parents, School

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"I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion."

"I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion."

Jackie DeShannon, American Musician

Fact, Guitar, Songs

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"It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged."

"It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged."

Bruce Babbitt, American Politician

Fact, Living, Wilderness

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"The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly."

"The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly."

Bjorn Lomborg, Danish Scientist

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