Quotes with high-rises

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  • Woody Guthrie Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.
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  • Brad Katsuyama We built a market at IEX that does not sell certain types of technology advantages to high-frequency traders, and as a result, the high-frequency traders that didn't rely on buying those advantages trade on IEX.
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  • Abigail Adams We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Aristotle Onassis We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
    Aristotle Onassis
    Greek shipping magnate (1906 - 1975)
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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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