Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 241 till 260 of 1944.

  • Bono Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.
    Rolling Stone interview (2005)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Cab Calloway Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Lord George Byron But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Aaron Sorkin But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are on concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
    The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Adam Weishaupt But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Abbey Lincoln But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Bob Schieffer But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Betty Ford But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Anita Roddick But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Rimbaud But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Albert Ellis By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Carlos Ghosn Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Adrian Grenier Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it.
    Adrian Grenier
    American actor, producer, director and musician (1976 - )
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  • Thomas Paine Character is much easier kept than recovered.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • C. P. Snow Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
    The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Robin Williams Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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