Quotes with intention-something

Quotes 181 till 200 of 1811.

  • Bobby Sherman As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.
    Bobby Sherman
    American singer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Brad Meltzer As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Candice Millard As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Billy Connolly As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Peter Gabriel As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]
    Peter Gabriel
    British musician, composer and songwriter (born 1950) (1950 - )
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  • Harper Lee As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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  • Bill Walton At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • John Donne At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bo Burnham At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Simone Weil At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Bill Goldberg At this time, the only thing that would get me back in the ring is something that would positively impact those in need. If selling out another major event would allow me to bring a ship full of supplies to hand out to those in need, I'd say that would be very significant.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Burt Rutan At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • John Haggai Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.
    John Haggai
    American evangelist (1924 - )
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And you go on collecting it as if it is something precious. Talk less, listen only to the essential, be telegraphic in talking and listening. If you talk less, if you listen less, slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for medita
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • B. B. King Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bryan Batt Be fun! I don't like homes or rooms that don't have a sense of humor or have some sense of whimsy or a personality. Your home should reflect who you are, and what you love. I would never have something in my home because it's the thing to have. I have to love it and it needs some connection to me.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Bob Seger Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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