Quotes 81 till 100 of 101.
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We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.
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We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
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We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.
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Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
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What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.
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What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.
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When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
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When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of imagery, I said, 'Gee, I probably could do that. So let me try that.'
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When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from.
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When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.
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When I was 14, I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic,' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better.
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When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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When we are accustomed to use bad reasons for proving natural effects, we are not willing to receive good reasons when they are discovered.
Pensees (1669) -
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
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