Quotes with ninety-two

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  • Machiavelli Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Samuel Johnson Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Arthur Hiller So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • Bono So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails. Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
    Source: PENN Address (2004)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Brene Brown Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Lord George Byron Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Vince Lombardi Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things-blocking and tackling.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • D'Onofrio Vincent Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. [On his acting techniques]
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  • Barry Hannah Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Brenda Ueland Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Stephen King Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Stanwyck Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.
    Barbara Stanwyck
    American actress, model and dancer (1907 - 1990)
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  • Benjamin Banneker Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Barbara Walters Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Henry James Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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