Quotes 281 till 300 of 524.
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Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.
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Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences.
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My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.
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My first love of jazz came from joining the Chilliwack Middle School band - it was like an 18-piece jazz band, and I wanted to join just because the older kids looked like they were having so much fun.
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My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
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My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
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My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.
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My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
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My secret to staying young... Having no sense of time.
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My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
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No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
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No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
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No memory of having starred
Atones for later disregard,
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No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime ''Let out all the length of all the reins.''
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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