Quotes with make-believe

Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 3427.

  • Peter Carey My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
    (2004)
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Junot Diaz My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.
    (2008)
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Bobby Hull My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Bryce Courtenay My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Arthur Blank My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.
    Arthur Blank
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Beth Ditto My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Beatrice Wood My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Tim O'Brien My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Bar Refaeli My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.
    Bar Refaeli
    Israeli model, actress, and entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Bryan Batt My mantra is, 'Don't be afraid of color.' What did it do to you? Do a color testing in alternate kinds of light you desire in the room because the pigment will change. And I refuse to believe that pale pale or white colors in a small room will buy you more square footage. Go with color all the way.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Wilma Rudolph My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
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  • Bonnie Tyler My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: 'Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.' I'm sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Thomas Arnold My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Armistead Maupin My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bill Rancic My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma's house. That's where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal, they each left a $5 bill next to their plates. I thought, 'Hey, I'm onto something here.'
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bre Pettis My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Ronald Reagan My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Hannah More My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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