Quotes with baiting-place

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  • Barkhad Abdi When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.
    Barkhad Abdi
    Somali–American actor and director (1985 - )
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  • Caroline Lawrence When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Charles F. Kettering When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, ''Boss you can't do that.''
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Albert Claude When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Bhagavad Gita When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Bob Edwards When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Samuel Butler When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Philip Roth When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Billy Williams When they told me there would be a statue erected at Wrigley Field, I was happy with that. I know there will be a meeting place for a lot of people. There will be a conversation every day. They say now, 'I'll meet you at Ernie Banks' statue.' After Sept. 7, they'll say, 'I'll meet you by Billy Williams' statue.'
    Billy Williams
    American baseball player (1938 - )
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  • Abdullah Ibrahim When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
    Abdullah Ibrahim
    South African pianist and composer (1934 - )
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  • John Berger When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Cate Blanchett When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Brene Brown When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Britney Spears When you tour, it's so hard on the body. Being in one place is cool. It's a more stable environment.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bono When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ben Schnetzer When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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