Quotes 2701 till 2720 of 2994.
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What you doin' with such a big ol' dog in New York? Never had a wife.
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) -
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power. I think they need me. I don't think it's addictive. I think, if anything, it's the opposite of addictive. You want to run away from it, but it doesn't let you go. It's doing it again.
As quoted in I never asked for power in The Guardian (15 August 2002) -
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
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Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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When a country produces a man of genius he never is what it wants or believes it wants; he is always unlike its idea of itself.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
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When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
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When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us.
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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
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When a woman like that whom I've seen so much,
All of a sudden drops out of touch;
Is always busy and never can,
Spare you a moment, it means a man. -
When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency.
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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
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When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing.
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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