“In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts – in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma – would someday be called Congressman.”
— J. C. Watts
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“Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it – often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.”
— Daniel H. Wilson
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“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
— Anais Nin
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“There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.”
— Jean Giraudoux
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“The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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“Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.”
— Terry Wogan
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“Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.”
— Les Baxter
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“The human race is governed by its imagination.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.”
— Ahmet Zappa
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“The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.”
— James Weldon Johnson
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“I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.”
— Bruce Springsteen
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