Quotes with down-to-earth

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  • Bjarke Ingels St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Bill Burr Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't just be like, 'Alright, I got my hour down, people are coming to see me now. Now, I'm going to lean on the mike stand.' No, you gotta work even harder now. You got to top what you already did. Because they'll find someone else.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Brenda Fassie Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it.
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  • Barry McGee Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • Benjamin Tucker Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Robert Browning Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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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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  • 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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  • Bruce Lee Taoist philosophy... is essentially monistic.... Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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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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  • Bode Miller That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Bai Juyi That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,
    And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.
    Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,
    While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.
    The Song of Long Sorrow
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  • Evelyn Waugh That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Anne McCaffrey That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The ''kingdom of Heaven'' is a condition of the heart -not something that comes ''upon the earth'' or ''after death.''
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Sir William Temple The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination - aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • Ben Elton The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
    Stark Court, Hippies and Love at First Sight
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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