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Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 6249.

  • Virgil I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Ansel Adams I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • E. L. Doctorow I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
    E. L. Doctorow
    American writer (1931 - 2015)
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  • Alice Walker I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Jennifer Jason Leigh I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.
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  • Andy Warhol I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Norman Mailer I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Adam Arkin I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery I want to impose on everyone that the bad times are over, they are finished! Our mandate from the Prime Minister is to destroy the Axis forces in North Africa...It can be done, and it will be done!
    Source: Said to his troops in North Africa, promising the swift defeat of Rommel
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
    Source: Player Piano
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Bubba Watson I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was 12. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are. If you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I was such a nerd, a complete geek, but then I was lucky enough to have a fancy career, where I can be like 'See, I'm not a nerd. Look, I'm in 'Vogue.'
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • William Wycherley I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Kin Hubbard I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Abdul Kalam I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.
    Source: Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Elbert Hubbard I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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