Quotes with 40-something

Quotes 901 till 920 of 1776.

  • William S. Gilbert My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Beyonce Knowles My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like 'Destiny's Child's', so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn't love.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Ben Elliot My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Bernadette Devlin My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
    Bernadette Devlin
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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  • Peter Carey My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
    Source:  (2004)
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Ben Folds My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Bryce Courtenay My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • B. B. King My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bertrand Piccard My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Bobby Moynihan My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.
    Bobby Moynihan
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1977 - )
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  • Mick Jagger My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
    Mick Jagger
    English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej My mother praised me when I did something good, and then the next moment, she would say, 'Don't float.' She put me in a balloon and then pricked it.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • B. B. King My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will remain missing. He will go on feeling that somehow something is not there that should be.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bill Rancic My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma's house. That's where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal, they each left a $5 bill next to their plates. I thought, 'Hey, I'm onto something here.'
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bonnie Hammer My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.
    Bonnie Hammer
     
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  • Bre Pettis My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Billy Collins My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Balthazar Getty My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.
    Balthazar Getty
    American actor and musician (1975 - )
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