Quotes with common-place

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  • Barry Diller Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Helen Rowland Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ann Beattie Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Begum Aga Khan Families are the best place to learn and practice mutual tolerance and acceptance.
    Interview with FOCUS Magazine, July 2005
    Begum Aga Khan
    French Egyptian artist and last wife of Sultan Aga Khan III (1906 - 2000)
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  • Margaret Drabble Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Ignazio Silone Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
    Ignazio Silone
    Italian writer and politician (ps by Secondo Tranquilli) (1900 - 1978)
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  • Paul De Man Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Lao-Tzu Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Betty Buckley Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • B. Washington Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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  • Ben Marcus Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Barbara Walters First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Bill Klem Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.
    Bill Klem
    American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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  • Oscar Wilde Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Cai Guo-Qiang For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
    Cai Guo-Qiang
    Chinese artist (1957 - )
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  • Carter Heyward For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love.
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  • Beeban Kidron For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Carmen Electra For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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  • Bobby Bonilla For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.
    Bobby Bonilla
    American Major League Baseball player (1963 - )
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