Quotes 1181 till 1200 of 1944.
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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
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People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.
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People need to realize bullying has just as much of an impact online because words are so cutting and difficult to deal with.
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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
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People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.
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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
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People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
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People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
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People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
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Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
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Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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