Quotes 581 till 600 of 1727.
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I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
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I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.
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Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
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If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back.
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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.
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If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
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If first you rid yourself of hope and fear
You have dismayed the tyrant's wrath:
But whosoever quakes in fear or hope,
Drifting and losing his mastery,
Has cast away his shield, has left his place,
And binds the chain with which he will be bound.De Consolatione Philosophia -
If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, 'You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation... why should you be frightened?
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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
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If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations.
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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
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If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class. This is female chauvinism. Friedan, Betty. 1998.
It Changed My Life: Writings on the Womens Movement
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