Quotes with make-shift

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  • Douglas Adams I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Naomi Campbell I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that. I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
    Naomi Campbell
    English model (1970 - )
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  • Alice James I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • David Gemmell I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Salman Rushdie I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Shirley Conran I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.
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  • Henry J. Kaiser I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
    Henry J. Kaiser
    American industrialist (1882 - 1967)
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  • Sara Teasdale I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
    Sara Teasdale
    American lyric poet (1884 - 1933)
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  • Oscar Wilde I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • James A. Garfield I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Adam Jones I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
    Adam Jones
    American musician (1965 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Mark Twain I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Warren Buffett I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Bruce Johnston I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Robert Frost I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, Children, you must no make so much noise, that I do not think how soon the time may come when, beside the vacant seat, those parents would give all the world, could they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them.
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • John Peel I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
    John Peel
     
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  • John Constable I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
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