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Quotes 601 till 620 of 690.

  • E. M. Cioran We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Bing Crosby We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.
    Bing Crosby
    American singer, comedian and actor (1903 - 1977)
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  • Cate Campbell We've seen, time and again, when people focus on the outcome rather than what needs to be done to achieve a desirable result, then the wheels fall off.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Brad Bird Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • A. E. van Vogt Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Bubba Smith Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • O. Henry What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • David Malouf What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
    An Imaginary Life
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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  • Bob Parsons What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.
    Bob Parsons
    American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Bill Rancic What I think a lot of great marathon runners do is envision crossing that finish line. Visualization is critical. But for me, I set a lot of little goals along the way to get my mind off that overwhelming goal of 26.2 miles. I know I've got to get to 5, and 12, and 16, and then I celebrate those little victories along the way.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Brad Sherman What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Anthony Holden What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • C. S. Lewis What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
    Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1963)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Zig Ziglar What you do off the job is the determining factor in how far you will go on the job.
    Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Richard Branson What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.
    Richard Branson
    English business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Bruce Schneier When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Orwell When a woman's bumped off, her husband is always the first suspect - which gives you a little side glimpse of what people really think about marriage.
    Coming Up for Air
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ben Kingsley When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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