Quotes with holier-than-thou

Quotes 1961 till 1980 of 4321.

  • Warren Buffett It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Bob Graham It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Carlton Fisk It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
    Carlton Fisk
    American baseball player (1947 - )
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  • Bill Gross It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Ben Simmons It's great to be compared to a great player like Tracy McGrady, but I think I'm my own type of player. I'm 6'10'' and a bit bigger than he is as a player. I also think I'm a bit different and play a different position. He's more of a guard, and I can play all around through five.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Bob Ainsworth It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • E. L. Doctorow It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
    E. L. Doctorow
    American writer (1931 - 2015)
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  • Bono It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Bono It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Carmen Kass It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.
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  • Alan Alda It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Boris Becker It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Blair Underwood It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Carol Bartz It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Harold Macmillan Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Ben Horowitz John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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