Quotes with high-rises

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 Levinson Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Bjarke Ingels Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Adam Sedgwick As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
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  • Mark Twain As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Theodore Parker As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Sallust As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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