Quotes with common-place

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  • Nancy Reagan It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
    Nancy Reagan
    American film actress and First Lady (1921 - 2016)
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  • Charles Baudelaire It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Campbell Brown It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bobby Flay It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Buenaventura Durruti It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Eugenie Clark It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
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  • Alice Koller It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
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  • Barbara Cooney It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
    Barbara Cooney
    American writer and illustrator (1917 - 2000)
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  • Jeanette Winterson It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
    The Passion (2007) 19
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Bill Gurley It's not for everybody to tweet, it's for everybody to follow. The more people figure that out, they see it's RSS-plus. It's literally the place you check for information.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Kurt Cobain It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
    Sounds 10-1990
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Boris Becker It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Bill Allred Jesus is a place-kicker and he's gonna kick you through the goal-posts of life.
    Radio From Hell (June 6, 2006)
    Bill Allred
    American musician (1936 - )
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  • Carrie P. Meek Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Angela Carter Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Jonathan Swift Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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