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I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.
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Steve Yzerman
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Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.
Author:
Gene Tunney
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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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Wanda Sykes
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Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.
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Wanda Sykes
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I found it a little bit stressful, because I wasn't used to working with Doctor Who. I got the impression I'd walked into the end of seven years and it was all a bit tense.
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Sarah Sutton
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I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
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Billy Sunday
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I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.
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Jon Stewart
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
Author:
Pamela Stephenson
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Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
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Nicholas Sparks
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A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why is it important to keep sacred writings private? Because then He will give us more.
Author:
Richard Scott
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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
Author:
Nathalie Sarraute
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Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
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Franklin Roosevelt
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Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.
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Jacques Rivette
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My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective.
Author:
Robert Ripley
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My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
Author:
Boyd Rice
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We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.
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Johnny Ramone
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Marcus Quintilian
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I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed.
Author:
Stuart Pearce
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One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.
Author:
Jack Paar
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In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.
Author:
Dennis Nilsen
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In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right.
Author:
Robert Nelson
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
Author:
Karl Moritz
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I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.
Author:
Maria Monk
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I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that.
Author:
Katherine Moennig
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But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.
Author:
Murray Mann
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Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
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Ella Maillart
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I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back.
Author:
Greg Maddux
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And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today.
Author:
Mike Lookinland
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Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here.
Author:
Oliver Lodge
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I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.
Author:
Harold Larwood
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Author:
Dalai Lama
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
Author:
Vaclav Klaus
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When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
Author:
Alan Keyes
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This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.
Author:
Anatoly Karpov
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I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.
Author:
Ashley Judd
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So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.
Author:
Jeffrey Jones
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Author:
Henrik Ibsen
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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Author:
Horace
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Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
Author:
Herbie Hancock
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You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.
Author:
Mia Hamm
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A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
Author:
Ernst Haas
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The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.
Author:
Harold Greene
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I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.
Author:
King George V
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I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.
Author:
Adolf Galland
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But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.
Author:
Edward Furlong
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Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting.
Author:
Annette Funicello
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You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.
Author:
Michael Frayn
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I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
Author:
Arthur Doyle
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One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.
Author:
Eric Clapton
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I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.
Author:
Helena Carter
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If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.
Author:
Jim Carrey
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The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.
Author:
Sherrod Brown
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My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.
Author:
Rory Bremner
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No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
Author:
George Boole
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Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.
Author:
William Bernbach
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Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.
Author:
Colleen Atwood
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My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
Author:
Alvin Ailey
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My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.
Author:
Naima Adedapo
