Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Barney Frank As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Ken Blanchard As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.
    Ken Blanchard
    American writer
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  • Bridget Riley As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
    Source: Bridget Riley: dialogues on art
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg As a professional wrestler, it's not my position to be the booker, to formulate a match, unless you're asked to do that.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bono As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Adam Sedgwick As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
    Adam Sedgwick
     
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  • Clive James As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • B. D. Wong As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Becki Newton As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Carlos Ghosn As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Carl Van Vechten As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Benjamin Hoff As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Stephen Vizinczey As both capitalist and communist states - not to mention the technological world - have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Campbell Brown As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Benjamin Bratt As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Albert Claude As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Benigno Aquino III As far as same-sex marriage, I really would want to think about that a lot more given the fact that my focus would be always on the child. The innocent should not be given more even burdens than what is absolutely necessary.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Albert Einstein As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Arthur Cayley As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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