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Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 1511.

  • Bono When John Lennon sings, Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open — these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.
    Rolling Stone interview (2005)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ben Hardy When my family first found out about my part in 'EastEnders' they were happy for me and very supportive.
    Ben Hardy
    British actor (1991 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Jacob Riis When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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  • Bre Pettis When people have a MakerBot, they have a different mindset from everybody else who grew up as a consumer. Instead of thinking, 'I need to go buy that,' they first think, 'Do I need to go buy that? I could just MakerBot that.'
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Ben Zobrist When the ball was hit, my first reaction as a shortstop was always go in the direction of the ball. You can't do that at first base. You go too far in that direction, and it's hard to scurry back and be ready to pick the throw.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • James Baldwin When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Carroll Quigley When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benigno Aquino III When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Mignon McLaughlin When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Brad Feld When we raised the first Foundry Group fund in 2007, we took over 100 first meetings. We told our story several hundred times. As part of it was a slide called 'Strategy.' I still repeat the elements of that slide regularly, a decade later, as our core strategy has not changed.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • John Berger When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Albert Einstein When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Annie Leibovitz When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Carlos Ghosn When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Campbell Brown Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Christopher Marlowe Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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