Quotes 781 till 800 of 8429.
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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
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Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.
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Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.
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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
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An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ''Gentlemen'' to the person with whom he is conversing.
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
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An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.
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An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
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An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.
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An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
The Writer and the World (2012) 225 -
An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
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An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
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An educated people can be easily governed.
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An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.
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