Quotes with common-sense

Quotes 321 till 340 of 1001.

  • Alex Cox I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Al Sharpton I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Clementine I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Becki Newton I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Ben Marcus I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Steve Jobs I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Sylvester Stallone I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
    Sylvester Stallone
    American actor and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • Ben Saunders I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.
    Ben Saunders
    British explorer
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  • Stephen Hawking I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
    New Scientist (26 april 2007)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Andrew Wiles I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Barbara Feldon I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
    Barbara Feldon
    American actress (1933 - )
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  • Bert Lance I've always tried to set some kind of goal. I want to be better than anybody in the banking business, and when I ran the Highway Department in Georgia, I wanted it to be the best in the country. And of course, I have a high sense of public service.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Berry Gordy I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience.
    Berry Gordy
    American record executive, record and film producer and songwriter (1929 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Rachel Carson If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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  • Sam Rayburn If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
    Sam Rayburn
    American politician (1882 - 1961)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Ouida If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard If I was producing something, it wouldn't make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn't put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn't go to a movie because that person's father is so and so.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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