Quotes 1481 till 1500 of 1686.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.
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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.
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We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.
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We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
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We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our stature's touch the skies.
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We never know the true value of friends. While they live, we are too sensitive of their faults; when we have lost them, we only see their virtues.
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We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.
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We put a monkey up in space / and I know exactly how he felt / looking at a lattice work of stars / missing his brothers back home too much for a postcard
Perfecting Loneliness (2002) Disgrace -
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
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We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, This is too difficult, too hard, he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable.
Comment on Sidney Poitier, as quoted in a press release at AARP (24 July 2008) -
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.
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We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too.
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
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We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait.
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We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.
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