Quotes 2101 till 2120 of 2759.
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The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To ''make a beeline'' for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. ''I guess I'll split'' is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.
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The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.
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The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
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The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Magicians Nephew (1955), Ch. 10 : The First Jo -
The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.
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The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
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The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
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The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which all individual human beings meet and the spectrum of voices weaving themselves in between and screaming 'every sick thought you've ever had and every twisted feeling you've ever felt are what make this painting complete.
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The truth is, most of us believe in trying to make other people happy, only if they can be happy in ways which we can approve.
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The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.
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The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.
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