Quotes with make-believe

Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 3427.

  • Voltaire My prayer to God is a very short one: ''O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous!'' God has granted it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Andrei Sakharov My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.
    Andrei Sakharov
    Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and activist (1921 - 1989)
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  • Alan Thicke My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Barbara Park My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Beth Ditto My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bradley Joseph My songs bring images to the listener's mind. The object is to transport my listeners to another place, some place sacred and spiritual that will make them glad they took the ride.
    On composing Official Bio and Reflections Bio
    Bradley Joseph
    American composer and producer
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  • Benny Blanco My studio's always in my house. I want to wake up and be like, 'You know I'm gonna make music today in my underwear. You know what, I'm gonna be in my pajamas. You know what, I'm actually just gonna stay inside for the next three days so I can make music.'
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • A. E. van Vogt My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Carl Sagan My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can make you too serious and that seriousness will create a spiritual disease and nothing else. Unless a meditation brings you more laughter, more joy, more playfulness, avoid it. It is not for you.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Napoleon: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. Giuseppe: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Dale Carnegie Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Will Durant Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Will Durant Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Blaise Pascal Nature has set us so well in the center, that if we change one side of the balance, we change the other also. I act. This makes me believe that the springs in our brain are so adjusted that he who touches one touches also its contrary.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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