Quotes with heavy-duty

Quotes 281 till 300 of 302.

  • Dr. Jess Lair When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.
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  • Brenda Song When I was first approached for 'Pass the Plate,' I was thrilled because I love to cook. And I love to cook healthy. The reason I started cooking was because I would go to restaurants and have just amazing food but feel so heavy and gross. I would go home and try to cook the same thing, but a healthy version.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Henry Fielding When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Ted Danson When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
    Ted Danson
    American actor, author and producer (1947 - )
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • W. C. Fields When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Maxim Gorky When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
    Maxim Gorky
    Russian and Soviet writer (0 - 1936)
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  • Woodrow Wilson When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
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  • Bonnie Bedelia Whenever there's heavy-duty emotional work to be done, they call me. As for playing the completely off-the-wall, sexy, gorgeous lady that I am - no, they don't think of me.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Joseph Joubert Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Oscar Wilde Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Marie Curie You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
    Marie Curie
    French physicist, radioactivity pioneer, 2x Nobel Prize winner (1867 - 1934)
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  • Audre Lorde You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Ben Wheatley You really have to be careful with the clues you lay into the film - if they're too heavy-handed, or you've pandered to a slightly stupider audience, then you've spoiled it for the people who are even slightly smart.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Helen Keller I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Caitlin Doughty In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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