Quotes with ago-they

Quotes 2701 till 2720 of 5767.

  • Elizabeth Hardwick Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Augustus William Hare Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • J. S. Habgood Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.
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  • Callie Khouri Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Bel Powley Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Billy Bob Thornton Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.
    Billy Bob Thornton
    American actor, writer, and musician (1955 - )
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  • Marva Collins Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.
    Marva Collins
    American educator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Campbell Brown Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Brit Hume MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Ben Nicholson MTV lets us do whatever we want. For me, there is freedom in serving an experienced client who knows what they want and has the money to do it. MTV is that for us.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • C. S. Lewis Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Camille Paglia Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Billy Corgan Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
    USA Today
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Stephen Sondheim Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
    Stephen Sondheim
    American composer (1930 - 2021)
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  • Oscar Wilde Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Alexander Scriabin My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.
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  • Bastian Schweinsteiger My absolute dream would be to play for Manchester United and help them reach the goals they have.
    Bastian Schweinsteiger
    German professional footballer (1984 - )
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  • Ben Elton My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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