Quotes 1141 till 1160 of 1835.
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Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
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Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
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Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.
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Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
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Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want.
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Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
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Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship in 1986. He won 302 fights and once went an unbelievable 11 years without a loss. Had Cuba not boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, many think Stevenson would have won an unmatched four gold medals in boxing.
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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
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That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.
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That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.
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That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more powerful influences in my life after all than the chapel bell. First, I tasted champagne, second, the theatre.
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That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
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That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.
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That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
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That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? 'Tell me a story.' That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.
Middlesex (2003) 197 -
The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
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