Quotes 81 till 100 of 116.
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Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
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The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.
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The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
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The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.
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The laws of business physics have been broken in terms of how many customers you can acquire and how fast. No one in history has ever acquired 450 million customers in the same amount of time that WhatsApp did.
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
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The Niagara Falls? Simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary rocks.
In Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946) -
The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.
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The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
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Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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