Quotes with not-so-fun

Quotes 9741 till 9760 of 10439.

  • Elie Wiesel When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge - one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Abu Bakr When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Barbara Boxer When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Georges Bernanos When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Brendan Fraser When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Billy Porter When you're doing what you love, it's not exhausting at all, actually. It's completely empowering and exhilarating.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Brit Hume When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Barry Hannah When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Bobby Keys When you're not on the payroll, and you want to continue the Beverly Wilshire lifestyle, but you're only geared for a Holiday Inn existence, things are gonna catch up to you.
    Bobby Keys
    American saxophonist (1943 - 2014)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Candice Patton When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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  • Ben Schnetzer When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Duffy Daugherty When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
    Duffy Daugherty
    American football player and coach (1915 - 1987)
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  • Cameron Sinclair When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
    Source: Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's (2016) 65
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Elie Wiesel Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Margaret Halsey Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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