Quotes with high-stress

Quotes 221 till 240 of 438.

  • Alec Baldwin Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Billy Collins Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Hannah Whitall Smith Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.
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  • Brock Lesnar Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Bernard Arnault Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.
    Bernard Arnault
    French businessman (1949 - )
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • William Shakespeare Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Heinrich Heine Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Aristophanes Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Benjamin Watson Most of the guys in the NFL would sit here and tell you we don't condone the abuse of a child, any sort of abuse of a woman, breaking rules, failing drug tests, or doing any of those things. We hold ourselves to a very high standard.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bobby Flay Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Aaron Copland Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Burton Cummings My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Bobby Moynihan My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations.
    Bobby Moynihan
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1977 - )
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  • Billy Corgan My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Brooke Shields My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Brendan Myers My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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