Quotes with common-place

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  • Bob Edwards When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Samuel Butler When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Philip Roth When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Billy Williams When they told me there would be a statue erected at Wrigley Field, I was happy with that. I know there will be a meeting place for a lot of people. There will be a conversation every day. They say now, 'I'll meet you at Ernie Banks' statue.' After Sept. 7, they'll say, 'I'll meet you by Billy Williams' statue.'
    Billy Williams
    American baseball player (1938 - )
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  • Abdullah Ibrahim When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
    Abdullah Ibrahim
    South African pianist and composer (1934 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • John Berger When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Cyril Connolly When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B s. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B, if yes, then all is well. The only other way for writers to meet is to share a quick pee over a common lamp-post.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Cate Blanchett When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • George Washington Carver When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Brene Brown When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Britney Spears When you tour, it's so hard on the body. Being in one place is cool. It's a more stable environment.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bono When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ben Schnetzer When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Campbell Brown Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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