Quotes 1681 till 1700 of 1944.
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Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
A Distant Mirror -
Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.
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Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.
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Video just accesses international information so much more readily.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often - much, much more often - it will save your life.
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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.
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We always plan too much and always think too little.
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We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.
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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
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We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
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We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much.
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We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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