Quotes with high-minded

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  • Barry Mann The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Bill Richardson The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Bill Viola The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Angela Merkel The willingness to learn new skills is very high.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Edmund Burke The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Aharon Appelfeld The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Beth Henley Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • George M. Adams There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
    George M. Adams
    American newspaper columnist (1878 - 1962)
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  • William James There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Camilla Luddington There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
    Camilla Luddington
    British-American actress (1983 - )
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  • Bill Nye There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end.
    Leviathan ch. 31
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Benjamin Harrison There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.
    State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Boyd Holbrook There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.
    Boyd Holbrook
    American actor and model
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  • Ben Roethlisberger There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.
    Ben Roethlisberger
    American football player (1982 - )
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  • John Ruskin They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • James Russell Lowell They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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