Quotes with less-than-excellent

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  • Bria Skonberg There's nothing worse than bad scatting, except maybe bad mouth trumpet. Mouth trumpet may sound like a trumpet, but it's really more like playing a kazoo. The instant you do your solo, the audience has a bit of a chuckle.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Beatrice Wood There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Bono There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.
    Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • William Shakespeare These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Britten These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.
    Letters from a Life Volume 3
    Benjamin Britten
    English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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  • Anne Campbell They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Adrienne Rich They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Bobby Fischer They have nothing on me, those guys. They can't even touch me. Some people rate them better than me. That really bugs me. They think that no Americans play chess. When I meet those Russian patzers I'll put them in their place.
    Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Bill Clinton They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and their ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world.
    Speech on the 50th anniversary of D-Day at the United States Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, 6 June 1994
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Adam Garcia They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
    Adam Garcia
    Australian actor (1973 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Lord Clarendon They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose, - who have rather breathed than lived.
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carter G. Woodson This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Bill Gates This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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