Quotes with make-shift

Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 2457.

  • Warren Buffett There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Boris Kodjoe There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Toni Morrison There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Bill Engvall There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.
    Source: Now Thats Awesome
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Brian K. Vaughan There's always that relief you feel when you're working on your own series that you can actually make it to your planned ending and that your audience will still be there to support you - and that your publisher will still exist.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Barry Eisler There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Billy Crudup There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • B. J. Novak There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
    B. J. Novak
    American actor, writer, comedian, and director (1979 - )
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  • Bob Anderson There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world.
    Bob Anderson
     
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  • Aldous Huxley There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ben Jonson There's reason good, that you good laws should make:
    Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake.
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio XXIV, To The Parliament, lines 1-2.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bob Mould There's so many companies that are spending so much money on 17-year-olds... I can't compete with that. I'm not that guy anymore, they can't dress me up and roll me out there and make me look good. I am what I am!
    Bob Mould
    American musician (1960 - )
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  • Bode Miller There's so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I'm prepared to do it; it's just a matter of if I can make it work.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Brenda Ueland These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget. But they have no slow, big ideas.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Adam Smith They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
    Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part IV (1759)
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Ben Bradlee They certainly did. They tried to make her look like a "nut case" and they succeeded to some extent.
    Ben Bradlee
    American journalist (1921 - 2014)
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  • Bruce Vilanch They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Tacitus They make a wilderness and call it peace.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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