Quotes with child-like

Quotes 2601 till 2620 of 4101.

  • Ronald Reagan Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Robertson Davies Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Carey Mulligan Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Carey Mulligan Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Anzia Yezierska Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Margaret Thatcher Power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Harold Macmillan Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Samuel Johnson Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Leonard Cohen Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • William Hazlitt Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bill Ackman Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Benny Green Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Bethany McLean Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Alvin Toffler Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Jean Anouilh Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • W. H. Auden Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Barry Sternlicht Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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