Quotes 141 till 160 of 1450.
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All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.
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All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse.
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All the wastes for a year from a nuclear power plant could be stored under a desk
Burlington Free Press, 15-02-1980 -
All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space.
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Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
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Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
Op Broadway in Dame Edna Back With A Vengeance 2004 -
America is a young country with an old mentality.
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America is an outstandingly dangerous place. Consider this: every year in New Hampshire a dozen or more people are killed crashing their cars into moose. Now correct me if I am wrong, but this is not something that is likely to happen to you on the way home from Sainsbury's.
Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998) -
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
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America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.
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American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
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Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
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Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
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An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
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An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.
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An old young man, will be a young old man.
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An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Business Review, Volume 22
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