Quotes with forty-eight

Quotes 81 till 100 of 111.

  • Dame Edith Sitwell Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Sir William Osler Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Beth Broderick The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Adrian Smith The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That's a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden has integrity. I think people appreciate that.
    Adrian Smith
    English guitarist and pianist (1957 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bill Dedman The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bianca Lawson The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God.' Because when you're watching things on TV, you think it's like a fantasy. But then to actually do it and then see yourself, it's like 'Oh my God.'
    Bianca Lawson
    American actress (1979 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Allen Tate There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Bruce Lipton There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be happy. Now that's like, that's being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you'll be so sick, you wouldn't enjoy it anyway.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Gore Vidal Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Bill Irwin This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ben Foster Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Barney Ross We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Betty Friedan We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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