Quotes with not-so-funny

Quotes 2941 till 2960 of 10331.

  • Susan Sontag I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Nikola Tesla I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • John Cheever I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Jane Austen I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
    Letter to Cassandra (24-12-1798) in Austen - Letters
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Helen Keller I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Norman Schwarzkopf I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • Agnes Macphail I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arundhati Roy I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • A.L. Williams I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear - the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.
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  • Jackie Mason I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
    Jackie Mason
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1928 - 2021)
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  • Salman Rushdie I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.
    (2006)
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I don't go by the rule book… I lead from the heart, not the head.
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  • Bill Murray I don't know what my fans are going to think. It's definitely not what they're used to from me.
    On his starring role in the drama The Razors Edge, as quoted in Stills Magazine
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Andy Rooney I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Joseph Conrad I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Astrid Lindgren I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
    Astrid Lindgren
    Swedish children's book and novelist (1907 - 2002)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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