Quotes with ago-they

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  • Quentin Crisp In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Barry Schwartz In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Terry Pratchett In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
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  • Bun E. Carlos In April of 1976, Epic Records was flying out to sign us when I tripped over a light case after a gig and broke my arm. We called the next morning and said, 'Don't go to the airport - Bun E. broke his arm.' They thought Mercury or someone was trying to sign us, so they offered us, like, $25,000 more on top of the deal.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Matthew Prior In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Paul Gauguin In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Woody Allen In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Mark Twain In Boston they ask, ''How much does he know?'' In New York, ''How much is he worth?'' In Philadelphia, ''Who were his parents?''
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Rattray In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.
    Ben Rattray
     
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  • Bobby Farrelly In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government.
    Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 173
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Brooks Atkinson In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
    Source: Once around the sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Candice Glover In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
    Candice Glover
    American R&B singer and actress (1989 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili In Georgia, people had already understood that communism couldn't survive, and I came to the institute in Moscow, and people still believed in it. They were completely different people, and I found it very difficult psychologically.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • Alex Cox In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Gamaliel Bradford In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
    Gamaliel Bradford
    American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist (1863 - 1932)
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  • Betsy Brandt In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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