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Quotes 641 till 660 of 1709.

  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Frederick W. Robertson In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • John Ruskin In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Camille Paglia In high school in the early Sixties, I dreamed of intellectual work by women that would match the highest male standards and set men on their ear. A lot of women have done a lot of academic work since then, but most of them fall short of that standard.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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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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  • Brene Brown In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Susan Sontag In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Carl Sagan In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.
    Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 18 (p. 313)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bob Edwards In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Alice Munro In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Charles M. Schwab In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Bing Gordon In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests, they're not going to work in a creative business.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Wendell L. Willkie In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
    Wendell L. Willkie
    American lawyer, politician and corporate executive (1892 - 1944)
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  • Ben Shapiro In order for Obamacare's cost structure to work, millions of Americans must sign up to pay inflated prices; that would help pay for the subsidies to cover insurance company costs on those with pre-existing conditions.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz In order to build a great technology company, you have to hire lots of incredibly smart people. It's a total waste to have lots of big brains but not let them work on your biggest problems.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Northrop Frye In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Jack Kinder In our systems work through simplicity, consistency, and repetition.
    Jack Kinder
     
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  • Audre Lorde In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Beck In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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