Quotes with also-ran

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  • Barbara Kingsolver To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bette Davis Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Joseph Conrad Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Anthony Bourdain Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.
    Anthony Bourdain
    American celebrity chef, author and journalist (1956 - 2018)
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  • Bobby Scott Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bill Griffith Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Bill Viola Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Bob Woodward Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Bernard Ebbers We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.
    Bernard Ebbers
    Canadian businessman (1941 - 2020)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Afrika Bambaataa We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani We are a heterogeneous society. We have to accept that. Growth has to be such that the most backward sections also benefit from it. Otherwise, it will be a very imbalanced growth.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ann Macbeth We are here predominantly to support independent filmmakers and their needs. We are also here to assist people actually in their production, non-commercial people in their production.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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