Quotes 261 till 280 of 1038.
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Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.
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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
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Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free?
If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me
Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making his way down the street?
If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me.Source: Working On A Dream (2009) The Wrestler -
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
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Heaven is as the book of God before us set, wherein to read his wondrous works.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating hip-hop beats you've heard from other people, or you start mimicking other people, or you're just listening to stuff.
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Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.
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Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
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How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
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How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.
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How I wish you could see the potential
The potential of you and me
It's like a book elegantly bound, but
In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love
You got to spend some time with me
And I know that you'll find love
I will possess your heartSource: Narrow Stairs I Will Possess Your Heart -
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
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How many members of the fleshbound masses do you think will listen to him? He's making sense, and they don't respond to that.
Source: Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991) -
I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
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