Quotes with ago-they

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  • George Orwell In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Erica Jong In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Cecil Parkinson In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Beau Willimon In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bert Lance In politics, they don't want anything that deters whatever their goal is. When people get in the way of that, that's when people get hurt - and sometimes destroyed.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Anita Brookner In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Hubert Humphrey In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Henry Fielding In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Bil Keane In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
    Bil Keane
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
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  • Ben Bernanke In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bea Arthur In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Carl Hagelin In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Orson Welles In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Bill Gates In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
    PBS interview with David Frost (November 1995)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bill Halter In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.
    Bill Halter
    American politician (1960 - )
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  • Billy Bragg In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Brion James In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
    Brion James
    American actor (1945 - 1999)
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  • Beau Willimon In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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