Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 4584.
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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
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I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
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I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
ISBN: 9780198184966 The Letters of A. E. Housman (2007 edition), Oxfor -
I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
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I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being.
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I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
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I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
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I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.
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I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
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I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
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I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced.
Grunch of Giants (1983)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men (1820)
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