Quotes with ago-they

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  • Bill Owens Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Bill Gross Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Anne Perry Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Paula Nelson Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.
    Paula Nelson
     
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  • Anthony Burgess Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Florence King Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Katharine Whitehorn Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
    Katharine Whitehorn
    British journalist, writer, and columnist (1928 - 2021)
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  • Barack Obama Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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  • Anthony Holden Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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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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  • Bret Harte An hour ago, a Star was falling. A star? There's nothing strange in that. No, nothing; but above the thicket, Somehow it seemed to me that God Somewhere had just relieved a picket.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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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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