Quotes 741 till 760 of 802.
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What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
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What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
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Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.
The Fire Next Time (1963) -
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
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When I drove up on the set one day, and they'd put up a sign that says 'The Bill Engvall Show,' I stood there for 20 minutes just staring at it. The director, James Widdoes, came up and said, 'What are you doing?' And I said, 'Look at this! There's my name on a stage door in Hollywood!'
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When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
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When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
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When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
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Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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