Quotes with hit-and-run

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  • Bernadette Peters The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Antonio Gramsci The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
    Antonio Gramsci
    Italian writer, politician and political scientist (1891 - 1937)
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  • Adrian Lyne The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Brande Roderick The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'
    Brande Roderick
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Ba Jin The changes in the chief and the assistant chief surgeon were most noticeable. At first they felt that they were just fulfilling their duty to the injured worker but were very dubious about the result. But then, full of confidence they really began doing their best.
    Source: A Battle For Life
    Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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  • Bill Alexander The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.
    Source: Memorials of the Spanish Civil War: the official publication of the International Brigade Association
    Bill Alexander
    German painter, art instructor, and television host (1915 - 1997)
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  • William Hazlitt The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Gail Godwin The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.
    Gail Godwin
    American novelist and short story writer (1937 - )
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  • William Hutton The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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  • Aldous Huxley The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Beau Willimon The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Kahlil Gibran The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Eric Hoffer The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Marcel Duchamp The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Black Kettle The Cheyennes do not fight at all this side of the Arkansas, but north some young warriors were fired upon and then the fight began.
    Source: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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