Quotes 441 till 460 of 1186.
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If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
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If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
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If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
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If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism.
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
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If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
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If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
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If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
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If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
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If you're talking down to the audience, no matter how brutish it is, they know it and they hate you for it.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
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