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You know what`s sad: Here I am on a show that`s about violence and serial killers, things that are truly destructive. But that much more widely accepted than sex, which is so important. Sexuality is right up there with eating, breathing, and sleeping. Yet it`s such a taboo. I don`t understand it.

- Jamie Luner

When I finally expressed my sexual frustrations to girlfriends, to my amazement many of them were going through the same problems. You just can`t tell, because it`s not widely discussed. It takes a lot of courage to admit, even to yourself, that you`re not getting satisfaction from your husband or boyfriend.

- Kim Cattrall

(on the widely criticized federal government response to Hurricane Katrina) This man called President Bush (George W. Bush) has a lot to answer for. I don`t know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

- Pierce Brosnan

It is not widely known that one of the finest gun collections on the West Coast is Steven Spielberg`s. He shoots, but very privately.

- Charlton Heston

I`m not so widely known that I`m going to be pigeonholed.

- Jeri Ryan

I`m glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.

- Paula Cole

People understand the product when they see it in the CEOs office and in context and it has been widely successful via word of mouth.

- David Rose

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

- Douglas Adams

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

- Gavin Newsom

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

- George Carlin

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don`t think there`s a single writer who influences me.

- Peter Benchley

America is certainly starting to look outward at last. The impact of its actions and the world`s attitude towards them is being thrown in its face. My film is only based on what I`ve torn from the newspaper headlines. It`s just that maybe I read more closely or widely than most.

- Andrew Niccol

KET 2 is widely watched and respected, but was not available in this area, ... It`s something a lot of people take for granted, but it is good programming.

- Jim Carter

People can be treated with widely available antibiotics, ... If they (people who have been exposed) are treated within 24 hours, they are almost assured to be cured. After that period, it can be more difficult.

- Jonathan Tucker

Even in hand drawn animation, humans are widely considered to be the most difficult to execute, because everybody has a feeling for how they move.

- Brad Bird

Although we were The Spice Girls of 1984 in Europe, My work has never been widely promoted in the U.S.

- Holly Johnson

Since 2002 the PhRMA code has been widely adopted. The code allows (providing) anatomical models but not things like golf bags.

- Tom Moore

The future is here. It`s just not widely distributed yet.

- William Gibson

I understood an idea like this could become popular, but at the same time I didn`t think it was my implementation that would be so widely used.

- Shawn Fanning

Given that some nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are now widely available in supermarkets it is crucial that people with asthma are made aware of the risks,

- Peter Carroll

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

- Jim Fowler

Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.

- Cathy Guisewite

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man`s desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.

- John Osborne

JAMDAT`s experience in creating fun and innovative games that appeal widely to wireless consumers makes them the ideal partner to bring my legendary TV quiz show, Bullseye, to mobile phones.

- Andrew Wood

I think it`s also the case that I`m not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it`s more or less all I know about!

- Jonathan Coe

It`s only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn`t seem to appeal very widely.

- Jonathan Coe

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

- Romano Prodi

While some of my other books have sold more widely, Midnight seems to be the most passionately loved. There`s something about its secret, rather dark fairy world that appeals very strongly.

- Jacqueline Wilson

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

- Mark Rothko

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

- Abigail LaRosa

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

- Alan Christensen

True enough that standards bodies themselves have weak teeth, but they do have influence and importance when a language begins to be widely used.

- Alan Sypert

The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.

- Alan Yates

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation`s leading causes of preventable death, but it`s less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

- Albert Alschuler

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

- Alex Hamilton

The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right.

- Alireza Jafarzadeh

I think that`s not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

- Alison Marquiss

Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.

- Alma Denny

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

- Almeda Jacks

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

- Amanda Abel

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

- Andrew Krcik

Corporate social responsibility is not a fad. In fact, there are structural reasons why this is happening and happening so widely,

- Andy Wilkinson

Lew cared deeply for H-P and its people, and his loss is being felt widely across our company. He was a natural leader who was enormously well liked and made an enduring impression on those he encountered.

- Anita Gutierrez

Lew cared deeply for HP and its people, and his loss is being felt widely across our company, ... He was a natural leader who was enormously well liked and made an enduring impression on those he encountered.

- Anita Gutierrez

Lew cared deeply for HP and its people, and his loss is being felt widely across our company. He was a natural leader who was enormously well liked and made an enduring impression on those he encountered.

- Anita Gutierrez

Lew cared deeply for HP and its people, and his loss is being felt widely across our company, ... He was a natural leader who was enormously well liked and made an enduring impression on those he encountered. The way he treated people and how he ran the company set an exceptionally high standard of personal decency.

- Anita Gutierrez

Lew cared deeply for HP and its people, and his loss is being felt widely across our company. He was a natural leader who was enormously well liked and made an enduring impression on those he encountered. The way he treated people and how he ran the company set an exceptionally high standard of personal decency.

- Anita Gutierrez

The potential of stem cells has been widely known for many years, but it is only recently we have started to make progress towards the ultimate goal of using them in patients. These results show it may be as little as five years before this advance can be used to directly benefit patients for a huge variety of illnesses and injuries.

- Anne Antoville

It is curious that what is widely thought of as a contemptible aspect of Senator McCarthy`s method actually amounts to nothing more than his intimacy with people. McCarthy`s continuous appeal to the people sorely aggravates the same Liberals whose certified faith in the people`s judgment never extends to those situations in which the people disagree with the Liberals.

- Anne VanBeber

We are pleased that leading technologies such as JobFlash`s unique and widely used telephone application system are now exposed and leveraged through integration using HR-XML`s open standards, ... More and more, HR decision-makers are making compliance with open standards part of the criteria they use when procuring HR solutions.

- Anthony Contreras