Quotes with not-self

Quotes 4201 till 4220 of 10786.

  • Bette Davis In the beginning was the Word,' and you must not be tempted with a script just because you have a great part. You want a great role to play, but the whole - the whole - must be good. It'll never succeed if it's just the role you like.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Henry Miller In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Mortimer J. Adler In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
    Mortimer J. Adler
    American philosopher, educator, and popular (1902 - 2001)
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  • Leo Rosten In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Les Brown In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • David Viscott In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
    David Viscott
    American writer, teacher (1938 - 1996)
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  • William Ernest Henley In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
    William Ernest Henley
    English poet, critic and editor (1849 - 1903)
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  • Paul Klee In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Alexander Dubcek In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Bhagat Singh In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Carl Paladino In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Alan Dundes In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • John F. Kennedy In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Carter G. Woodson In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. It constrains men to recognize it.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Olson In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
    The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Abigail Adams In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
    Letter to John Adams, 31 March 1776
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Robert Bresson In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Beck In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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