Quotes with -they

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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Marilyn Monroe An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Alan Greenspan An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • William Faulkner An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Alexander Pope An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bell Hooks An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Derek Jarman An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood; the brethren are lovers; they extend the ''family.'' I share that sexuality. It was then, is now and will be in the future.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • Sigmund Freud Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Matthew Prior And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Beth Henley And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Alan Watts And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Bob Schieffer And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Carl Karcher And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
    Carl Karcher
    American businessman (1917 - 2008)
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  • Edmund Burke And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Brian De Palma And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Betty Ford And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Brent Spiner And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!
    Brent Spiner
    American actor, comedian and singer (1949 - )
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  • Beatrice Wood And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Adrian Lyne And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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