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Quotes 1121 till 1140 of 1835.

  • Bob Dylan Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
    Source: On the influence of Jack Kerouac, as quoted in Jack Kerouac (2007)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Charlotte Brontë Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Robert Alan Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place. Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight. Lend a hand when you can, get involved this is good. You can help to make a difference in your neighborhood.
    Robert Alan
    American singer/songwriter and comic book creator (1971 - )
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  • Bjork Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Sometimes when you get to the press conferences, you hear you're going to play this person in the semifinals, and in the quarters, you're going to play her. And I'm like, 'Hold on a second.' First of all, you have to make it there. Second, your opponent needs to make it there. It looks easier on paper than it is in real life.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Calvin Harris Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Burt Rutan Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Billy Gardell Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Machiavelli States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Carol Bartz Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • André Maurois Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Denis Waitley Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • John Wooden Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Charles J. Givens Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.
    Charles J. Givens
    American businessman, writer, teacher
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  • Salman Rushdie Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Beth Orton Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've married someone from Vermont, so it's an expression I kept hearing, and I'm like, 'What is that? That's just so beautiful.' I like the idea it's the very, very first murmurings of spring.
    Beth Orton
    English singer-songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Brandon Cruz Surfboards were everywhere. When I got my first new board, I was probably in kindergarten.
    Brandon Cruz
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Betty Buckley T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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