Quotes 221 till 240 of 331.
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The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.
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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.
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The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
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The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.
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The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
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The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
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The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
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The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
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The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
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The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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The law always limits every power it gives.
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The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
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