Quotes with high-handed

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  • Bre Pettis When we looked out at the world and saw what 3D scanners could do, we wanted to make something that could make really high quality models that you could create on your MakerBot.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Beth Ditto When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • René Descartes Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Barney Frank While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bob Menendez While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Bartholomew Dowling Who dreads to the dust returning?
    Who shrinks from the sable shore,
    Where the high and haughty yearning
    Of the soul can sting no more?
    The Revel: Time of the Famine and Plague in India, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
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  • Abraham Lincoln With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Camille Paglia Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • Germaine Greer Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Bob Taft Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • Brit Hume You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Jane Austen You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • George S. Patton You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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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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  • Jeremy Corbyn You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.
    Jeremy Corbyn
    former Leader of the British Labour Party, MP for Islington North (1949 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson You've got a league with a couple thousand players or so depending on the time of year. Then you have 10 or more very high profile stories that are terrible stories and things that have happened.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Carl Honore Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Hitopadesa Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Ambrose Bierce Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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