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Quotes 501 till 520 of 1727.

  • Anthony Doerr I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Alan Dundes I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Noam Chomsky I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Josh Billings I have lived in the world just long enough to look carefully the second time into those things that I am most certain of the first time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Josh Billings I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Lord George Byron I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Rosa Parks I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Brock Lesnar I know of Conor McGregor. This sport has evolved even from when I first entered the octagon. I think people are finding out that you have to talk the talk, and you have to - more importantly, you have to walk the walk.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Georges Bernanos I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Barbara Bush I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Sir John Vanbrugh I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another.
    Sir John Vanbrugh
    English architect and dramatist (1664 - 1726)
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  • Agnes Macphail I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Asa Gray I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Buddy Valastro I promised my daughter I'd name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, 'Dad, what about us?' I'm gonna have to open four restaurants!
    Buddy Valastro
    American baker and reality television personality (1977 - )
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  • Al Neuharth I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
    Al Neuharth
    American businessman, author, and columnist
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