Quotes with five-and-a-half

Quotes 3121 till 3140 of 25411.

  • Carl Lewis At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg At the end of the day, it's a very powerful voice when you're able to perform on any level on any stage and have the audience, have the attention of children. It's a gift. It's not to be taken lightly, and it can be used for good or for bad.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bev Perdue At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Milan Kundera At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Brendan Myers At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Benjamin Whorf At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Bo Burnham At the time of 'Words, Words, Words,' I'm a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he's entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that's inherently a little bit ridiculous.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Ben Schwartz At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly. Then when I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it.
    Ben Schwartz
    American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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  • Adam Schiff At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Clarence Darrow At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Lord George Byron At twenty three the best of life is over and its bitters double.
    Journal entry of 1811 titled: Four or Five Reasons in Favour of a Change
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Benjamin Franklin At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Jeremy Collier Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill living.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Bill Fagerbakke Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.
    Bill Fagerbakke
    American actor (1957 - )
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  • Barry Manilow Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracián Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Billy Collins Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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