Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 3381 till 3400 of 12035.

  • Allen Klein I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Bruce Parry I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them.
    Source: As quoted in Do you really want to be in our tribe? in The Telegraph (1 March 2005)
    Bruce Parry
     
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  • Jane Austen I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Adolf Galland I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Lord Nelson I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
    Lord Nelson
     
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  • H. P. Lovecraft I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Bruno Mars I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Bryan Cogman I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on 'Game of Thrones,' so all I could do is think, 'We're going to have to shift that,' 'We won't be able to afford that,' or 'That's a great scene.'
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Oscar Wilde I dare say that if I knew him I should not be his friend at all. It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends.
    Source: The remarkable Rocket
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Dan Quayle I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bayazid Bastami I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
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  • Stephen Leacock I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Ang Lee I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Mark Twain I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. [About a politician who had recently died]
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Agatha Christie I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
    Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Tony Benn I did not enter the labor Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr. Gallup and Mr. Harris.
    Tony Benn
    British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Bill Clinton I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
    Source: pressconference, 26 januari 1998
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Imelda Marcos I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.
    Imelda Marcos
    Filipino politician and first lady (1929 - )
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