Quotes 121 till 140 of 582.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
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Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'
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Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
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Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
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Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
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First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.
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Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
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Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.
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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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For me, I need to be able to show up on set and fart around and goof around. If I can have that, when I'm not acting, then when I'm acting I can go however deep and dark and bad I need to. I developed that more with 'Breaking Bad' because I've never worked on anything as dark for as long.
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For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.
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For the tourist's
brown pennies scattered at the old church door,
the ragged papooses jump, and bite the dust.Source: Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga (1983) -
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
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Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.
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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
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From the lottery to raise the funds for the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 to the lottery used to pay the interest on Dutch loans to the United States during the Revolutionary War, the development of the United States was funded by gambling.
Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 4
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