Quotes with less-than-excellent

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  • Cass Sunstein Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that's not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They're motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bono Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.
    Rolling Stone interview (2005)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Derek Walcott Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
    Derek Walcott
    Saint Lucian poet and playwright, winner Nobel Prize in Literature (1930 - 2017)
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  • George Eliot Breed is stronger than pasture.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bobby Flay Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.
    Bobby Flays Grill It
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Lord Beaverbrook Business is more exciting than any game.
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  • Bruce McCulloch But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Khaled Hosseini But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Aaron Sorkin But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are on concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
    The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Jim Carrey But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.
    Jim Carrey
    Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist and screenwriter (1962 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss But in our opinion truths of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations.
    About the proof of Wilsons theorem. Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801)
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Barney Frank But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Herman Melville But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Brad Carson But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome.
    Brad Carson
    American lawyer and politician (1967 - )
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  • Bono But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Alexander Pope But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Brandon Routh But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we've done in this first film, I'd be more than happy to be a part of it.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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