Quotes 5521 till 5540 of 5903.
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When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
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When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
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When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?
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When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ''I believe'' to ''One does feel.''
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.
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When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it.
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they ''don't understand'' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!
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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.
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When women kiss, it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949) -
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and one represents opportunity.
Source: Indianapolis, 12-04-1959 -
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
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