Quotes with hero-like

Quotes 3081 till 3100 of 3793.

  • Steven Wright There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bill Engvall There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.
    Now Thats Awesome
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Bill Dedman There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Afrika Bambaataa There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Bobby Bowden There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Bill Simmons There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Baz Luhrmann There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Brendon Urie There's actually a song called 'Vegas Lights,' which I wanted to be an anthem for Vegas, that represented how I felt when I went to the clubs. I felt this weird energy where everybody was having a good time, and it didn't matter. Dancing like nobody's watching. It was kind of beautiful.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Bruno Mars There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Billy Crudup There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • David Letterman There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
    David Letterman
    American television host, comedian, writer, and producer (1947 - )
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  • Irving Berlin There's no business like show business.
    Irving Berlin
    American composer and lyricist (1888 - 1989)
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  • Billie Holiday There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson There's no glory like those who save their country.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • George Farquhar There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
    George Farquhar
    Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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  • H. Rap Brown There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
    H. Rap Brown
    American activist (1943 - )
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  • E. M. Forster There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness.
    Howards End (1910) Ch. 15
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Marcel Proust There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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