Quotes with main-spring

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  • Uta Hagen More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
    Uta Hagen
     
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  • Bayard Rustin My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Boo Weekley My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and come back? Or will I just want to go home and be fishing, hunting and working around the house?
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili My main capital isn't the money. I respect myself; I respect my country.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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W. Bruce Cameron My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn't be happier that's where I start. I can put as many flawed people in the dog's world as I like, but the dog doesn't care. Dog doesn't judge. Dog doesn't dislike. Dog loves. That's not so bad.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Aileen Wuornos My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I've come clean in all of my cases. I killed in pure hate, robbing along the way. So if this person hasn't, then I'd sure appreciate it if someone would inform him or her of it.
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  • Ben Harper My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Tiger Woods My main focus is on my game.
    Tiger Woods
    American professional golfer (1975 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.
    Source: Radio Interview, March 10 1999 [9]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William S. Burroughs No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Hal Borland No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn.
    Hal Borland
    American author, journalist and naturalist
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  • Seneca Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Gerard Manley Hopkins Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
    English poet and Jesuit (1844 - 1889)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • George Farquhar Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.
    George Farquhar
    Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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  • Charlotte Brontë One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Buzz Osborne One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, end. One of the bands that changed that was The Beatles. If you listen to 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.' It's three verses, bridge, end.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Brad Falchuk One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'
    Brad Falchuk
    American television writer, director, and producer (1971 - )
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