Quotes 781 till 800 of 802.
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You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles.
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You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.
James Baldwin: Reflections of a Maverick (1984) -
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
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You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
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You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
Doom and glory of knowing who you are (1963) -
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in Westerns. I just hope I won't be faced with doing 'Li'l Abner' in dinner theater for the rest of my career.
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… I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
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I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
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Our family is fortunate to have a well-documented history in a book titled 'The Flores Family - 1725 to 1963' by James F. Padgett.
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