Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 741 till 760 of 1944.

  • Ben Whishaw In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm In general, it is not very difficult for little minds to attain splendid situations. It is much more difficult for great minds to attain the place to which their merit fully entitles them.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Benjamin Franklin In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Mark Twain In his private heart no man much respects himself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bill Dedman In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Camille Paglia In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Carlo Rubbia In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Bruce Lee In Jeet Kune Do, it's not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. 'Being' is more valued than doing.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bill Dedman In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Arthur C. Brooks In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt In my neighborhood growing up, 8, 10,12 kids were the norm. Those stay-at-home moms would handle so much physically and emotionally. Even in my early teens, I could tell those ladies were something.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Bianca Lawson In my regular life, I don't really wear much makeup unless I'm going out.
    Bianca Lawson
    American actress (1979 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Alex Haley In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Helen Rowland In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ben Affleck In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Lewis Mumford In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Henry Fielding In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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