Quotes with down-on-his-luck

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  • Booth Tarkington Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Don Shula Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
    Don Shula
    American football coach and player (1930 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Andrew Carnegie Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • William Shakespeare Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Betty Buckley T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Bob Dylan Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time...
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Barack Obama Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Bob Barr Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Robert J. Mckain Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write down critical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts are untrue and practice talking and writing back to them.
    Robert J. Mckain
    American author of self-help books
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  • Ben Casnocha Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Ann Coulter Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words "abortion" or "tax hikes" pass their lips.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Annie Jump Cannon Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
    Annie Jump Cannon
    American astronomer (1863 - 1941)
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  • Johann Gottfried Seume Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
    Johann Gottfried Seume
    German writer (1763 - 1810)
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  • Bill Dedman Ted Williams, an extraordinary hitter in his day, has said the swing starts in the hips, and Sosa arrived with one of the strongest lower bodies in the game.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • William Lloyd Garrison Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.
    William Lloyd Garrison
    American abolitionist, journalist and suffragist (1805 - 1879)
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  • Ayn Rand Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life.
    Atlas Shrugged (1957)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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