Quotes 461 till 480 of 1115.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.
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In radio I had one, maybe two people who cared about getting it done. I'd really be a loser if I forgot where I came from. So I show them the love. And how hard is it really to be interested in someone's life?
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In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
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In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
Source: Interview Oprah november 2000 -
In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
Source: The New Yorker, March 28, 1953, quoted in David Remnick, Reporting It All: A.J. Liebling at 100, The New Yorker, March 29, 2004 -
It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.
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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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It is a lovely thing to live with courage, and to die leaving behind everlasting renown.
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It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.
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