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Quotes 81 till 100 of 197.

  • Brendan Gill It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
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  • Henry Miller It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • James Connolly Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
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  • Quentin Crisp Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Barney Frank Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Mary MacCracken Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Simon Sinek Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.
    Simon Sinek
    British-American author, motivational speaker and marketing consultant (1973 - )
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  • Brad Bird Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz Many of the people that you lay off will have closer relationships with the people who stay than you do, so treat them with an appropriate level of respect.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Burning Spear Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Brendan Myers My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Mark Twain Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Russell H. Conwell No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.
    Russell H. Conwell
    American Baptist minister, lawyer, and writer
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  • Bruce Springsteen No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • William Golding Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Bayard Taylor Now the frosty stars are gone: I have watched them one by one, Fading on the shores of Dawn. Round and full the glorious sun Walks with level step the spray, Through his vestibule of Day.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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