Quotes 841 till 860 of 866.
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You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
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You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
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You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.
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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ''Failure'' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
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You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
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You won't find any volatile quotes out in the press where I've run the team down publicly.
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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
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Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that - the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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Down went the owners - greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.
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I supported John McCain for president. I raised a million dollars for him. Still a lot of money. I supported him. He lost. He let us down. So I never liked him as much after that because I don`t like losers.
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I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
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In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
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Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
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The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.
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