Quotes 661 till 680 of 3841.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.
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Death is still working like a mole, and digs my grave at each remove.
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Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
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Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
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Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
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Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.
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Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.
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Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, 'You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.'
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Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 111 -
Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.
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Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their marks.
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark.
It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred.Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) -
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
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Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
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Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.
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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.
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