Quotes with high-minded

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  • Emily Dickinson We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our stature's touch the skies.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Bill Drayton We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • David Hare Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Campbell Newman What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • Blair Underwood When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Ben Carson When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Boyd Holbrook When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.
    Boyd Holbrook
    American actor and model
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  • Barbara Mandrell When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Bill Clinton When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Carson Daly When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Ben Schwartz When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so I had to choose between playing basketball or being in the musical. And I ended up playing basketball.
    Ben Schwartz
    American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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  • Bil Keane When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
    Bil Keane
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
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  • Carl Safina When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt When I was in high school, I hid in the back seat of an old boyfriend's car when he was out with another girl. He finally found me, but not until after he had made out with her for an hour.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Caroline Lawrence When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Burton Cummings When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein When like-minded people, talking mostly with one another, end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk... If you put a bunch of rebels in a room and ask them to discuss rebellion, they'll get more extreme.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Italo Calvino When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Bernard Barton When thou a fast would'st keep, Make not thy homage cheap, By publishing its signs to every eye; But let it be between Thyself and the Unseen, So shall it gain acceptance from on high.
    Bernard Barton
    English Quaker poet (1784 - )
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