Quotes with make-shift

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  • Kurt Vonnegut Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Blake Farenthold As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • B. Kevin Turner As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Bernhard Schlink As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Marianne Moore As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Calvin Trillin As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist As I get older, I just need to continue to make sure I'm staying in peak shape and taking care of my body the best I can.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Bob Rae As I grow older, I have had to discard some ideas and policies because they no longer make sense. This strikes me as entirely healthy. I would invite others to do the same.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Preface, p. ix
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Buddha As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bill Haslam As somebody who thinks Tennessee history is important, I want to make certain that's still a part of the curriculum. I think that's critical for the people growing up in our school system.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Candice Millard As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Barbara Lee As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Woody Allen As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski As we move from an economy of affluence to an economy of scarcity, we must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those who make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Beth Ditto As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Jim Rohn Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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