Quotes 141 till 160 of 1725.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.
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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.
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A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
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About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
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About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.
Source: Out on a Limb. Details Magazine. October 1996 -
Accept good advice gracefully—as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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According to Ted Watt's 'The First Labor Day Parade,' the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities.
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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
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Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
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Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
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Actually, there is only one ''first question'' of government, and it is ''How should we live?'' or ''What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?''
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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
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After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.
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After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.
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After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.
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After my wife and I were married, we obtained a rescue dog from a family that didn't want her anymore. She was a beautiful Collie/Shepherd mix named 'Precious.' It then came to pass that our first marital 'debate' was whether we should change the dog's name away from the same name used by the wacky villain in 'Silence of the Lambs.'
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