Quotes 101 till 120 of 257.
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.
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I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
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If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!
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If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
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If we would just support each other - that's ninety percent of the problem.
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If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
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If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
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In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called conservative, as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out.
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Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
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It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
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It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Source: Once around the sun (1951)
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