Quotes with next-best

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  • Bill Walton Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Woman's at best a contradiction still.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bev Perdue Women have to be very vigilant, and demand the very best in public schools, health care and pay, those things that men and women of this state value are at risk.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Samuel Butler Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Camille Pissarro Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Beatrice Webb Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Boris Pasternak Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
    Source: As quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Bill Shorten Workplace relations is about getting the best out of people. An argument which says that the only way we can compete with other nations in the world is engaging in a race to the bottom in terms of pay rates, penalty rates, protections on rosters, getting rid of family friendly provisions - that is not Australia's future.
    Bill Shorten
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Al Hirschfeld You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.
    Al Hirschfeld
     
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  • W. Clement Stone You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Carl Hiaasen You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Caroll Spinney You can exaggerate with puppets. You're not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets are designed is really appealing. Puppets are best if they're exaggerated creatures.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Ben Nicholson You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Bob Nelson You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.
    Bob Nelson
    American comedian and actor (1958 - )
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