Quotes with half-there

Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 5709.

  • Blake Farenthold If I were to leave Congress and want to start Farenthold TV, it would be very difficult. The fewer players there are, the fewer the opportunities to build a big enough audience to get on.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Woody Allen If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Betty Carter If it wasn't for [pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, gangsters, and gamblers] there wouldn't be no jazz! They supported the club owners who bought the music. It wasn't the middle-class people who said Let's go hear Charlie Parker tonight.
    Betty Carter
    American jazz singer (1929 - 1998)
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  • Calvin Trillin If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Ann Oakley If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.
    Ann Oakley
    British sociologist, writer (1944 - )
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  • Alexander Herzen If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Aaron C. Brown If no one gambled against the grain in good times, there would be no winners to inspire people in the bad times.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 4
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Andreas Capellanus If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
    Andreas Capellanus
    French writer (1150 - 1220)
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  • Warren Buffett If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Doug Larson If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Vauvenargues If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Barney Frank If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Nadine Gordimer If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Bette Midler If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Ad Reinhardt If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej If Thai citizens still hold this harmony in their hearts, there is hope that in whatever the situation, Thailand will surely get through it safely and with stability.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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