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Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1835.

  • Avi Arad On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Angela Merkel On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Bobby Seale On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bruce Willis On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Boris Spassky On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Albert Einstein On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Colette Dowling Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.
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  • Simeon Strunsky Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
    Simeon Strunsky
    American journalist (1879 - 1948)
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  • Anish Kapoor One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Boman Irani One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Boris Yeltsin One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.
    Source: Speaking to the press following a postively productive meeting with Bill Clinton (24 October 1995)
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • A. W. Tozer One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Henry David Thoreau One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Alfred de Vigny One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Samuel Butler One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Sir William Osler One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
    Source: Sir William Osler: Aphorisms (1961) p. 105
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Arthur Henderson One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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