Quotes with down-to-earth

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  • Bill Nye I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Fialho I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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  • Brock Lesnar I've never turned down a fight in the UFC. Even when I was champ, I never turned down a fight.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron I've walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Camilo Jose Cela Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
    Camilo Jose Cela
    Spanish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1989) (1916 - 2002)
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  • Samuel Johnson If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Martin Luther King If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • W. M. Thackeray If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Thomas J. Peters If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Abba Eban If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Mollison If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.
    Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 14.2
    Bill Mollison
    Australian author, teacher and biologist (1928 - 2016)
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  • Bill Shankly If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Cale Yarborough If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
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  • Bill Ackman If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Rosa Parks If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Arthur Godfrey If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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