Quotes 141 till 160 of 368.
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I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
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I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
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I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that's not the name of a high stakes gambler from Vegas. It's a type of spacecraft that flies to orbit like the retiring Shuttles but then glides to a landing like an airplane on a runway. Just like the Shuttles do.
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I've outdone anyone you can name: Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
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If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
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In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
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In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
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In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.
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In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
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In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
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In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B.
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In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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