Quotes with in-your-fingers

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  • Bill Cosby In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Bill Paxton In our game, it's your vanity that keeps you in shape. I've got a little gym set up, and I ride a single-speed bike up the hills behind my house. Lately I've been kind of a slacker. Usually it's a film role that makes me start getting in shape. Between roles, I try to do a little maintenance, but I'm not a workout fanatic at all.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Bill Gross In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • John Selden In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Breyten Breytenbach In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Bill Halter In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.
    Bill Halter
    American politician (1960 - )
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  • Brion James In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
    Brion James
    American actor (1945 - 1999)
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  • Bill Conti In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.
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  • Bryan Robson In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Brit Hume In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • J. William Fulbright In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
    J. William Fulbright
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1905 - 1995)
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  • Abigail Adams In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
    Letter to John Adams, 31 March 1776
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Carl Sandburg In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Jeanette Winterson In this life, you have to be your own hero.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Barbara Dale In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.
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  • Jean Paul Getty In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • Winston Churchill In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ferdinand Foch In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
    Ferdinand Foch
    French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland (1851 - 1929)
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