Quotes with next-to-last

Quotes 861 till 880 of 921.

  • Callie Khouri When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Brad Grey When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.
    Brad Grey
     
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  • Carl Sagan When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Mark Twain Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
    Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) Ch. 22
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Where the 'Bay of Pigs' invasion failed, undoubtedly the tourist invasion will succeed in forever changing the landscape of island. What comes next in Cuba? The answer is that many Cubans aren't waiting around to find out.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bill Kristol While a defeat for Obamacare in the Court would be nice, the defeat of President Obama at the polls on November 6 is crucial. If electoral victory is achieved, Obamacare can and will be repealed - and more judges of a constitutionalist persuasion will be appointed by the next president.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Dean William R. Inge Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Carl Safina Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • David Starr Jordan Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
    David Starr Jordan
    American educator, eugenicist, and peace activist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Herbert Hoover Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Scott Reed With a definite, step-by-step plan - ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track…
    Scott Reed
    American author
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  • Bill Maris With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Ben Parr With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Ben Carson With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Remy de Gourmont Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Maureen Dowd Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
    Maureen Dowd
     
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Billy Gardell Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got 'Mike & Molly,' wishing me congratulations. I'm always the last one to the party, man. But that's okay. I got there.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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