Quotes with high-performance

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  • Adolf Galland According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Katharine Hepburn Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Casey Affleck After high school, I drove out to L.A. with a friend of mine who had just graduated also, and I started auditioning. I got an agent, but it was all 'Saved By the Bell' auditions.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Tom Stoppard Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Charles J. Fillmore All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
    Charles J. Fillmore
    American linguist and Professor of Linguistics (1929 - 2014)
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  • John Wooden All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Camille Paglia All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Humphrey Bogart All you owe the public is a good performance.
    Humphrey Bogart
    American screen and stage actor (1899 - 1957)
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  • Machiavelli Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Harold Rosenberg America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • William Dean Howells An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
    William Dean Howells
    American writer, criticus (1837 - 1920)
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  • Thomas Mann An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • George Bernard Shaw An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Alice Hoffman Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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  • Barry Ritholtz Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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