Quotes 261 till 280 of 860.
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I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.
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I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
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I think a lot of times we're so told in our world that marriage is everything, and having a partner is everything. If you look at our movies and things, it's all directed around that love, and if you don't have that love, how sad you are.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 17 -
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
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I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important times.
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I think that one of the problems that exists in the United States and in many places in the world is that people don't believe that they can make a difference. So a lot of times we're defeated before we even start. We've become consumers of a world vision, of Kentucky Fried Chicken, of McDonalds.
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I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
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I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.
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I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.
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I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
Original:Je veux que les paysans mettent la poule au pot tous les dimanches.
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I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
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I want to impose on everyone that the bad times are over, they are finished! Our mandate from the Prime Minister is to destroy the Axis forces in North Africa...It can be done, and it will be done!
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I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.
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I was becoming wise by experience, and I was compelled to observe that when mud and wet sapped the physical energy of the lazily-inclined, a dog-whip became their backs, restoring them to a sound--some-times to an extravagant activity.
Source: How I found Livingstone (1872) Ch. 6 -
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
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I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
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