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One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.

In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'

Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

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

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'

I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

I know I've got to pay some tax, but I hate the fact that they collect millions of pounds a day from the congestion charge and I don't see anything or anyone benefitting from it. Where are the new hospitals?

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world.

I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.

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.

In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.

The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now. I'm still the same person.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.

The magic happens when you take facts and figures, features and benefits, decks and PowerPoints - relatively soulless information - and embed them in the telling of a purposeful story. Your 'tell' renders an experience to your audience, making the information inside the story memorable, resonant and actionable.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.

Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

Everyone's hip to the fact that we all do things to accentuate our looks - and it's much more accepted

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them.

And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.

As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.

And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.