Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Barbara Cooney It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
    Barbara Cooney
    American writer and illustrator (1917 - 2000)
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  • Lord George Byron It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - and in my esteem age is not estimable.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bill Paxton It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Ben Shapiro It was the Obama administration that cut a faux deal with the Iranians that will not disarm Iran of its nuclear capabilities, and will in fact accelerate their nuclear development.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Albert Einstein It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
    Source: The Human Side (1954)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Angela Merkel It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Jane Austen It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Don Marquis It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Bill Bryson It would be a great abuse of my position to write that it was Northwest Airlines that treated us in this shoddy and inexcusable way, so I won't.
    Source: Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • John Frederick Boyes It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.
    John Frederick Boyes
    English scholar of classics (1811 - 1879)
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  • Brad Sherman It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Benazir Bhutto It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...
    Source: Destinys daughter
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Andy Warhol It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Heraclitus It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Ben E. King It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Boyle Roche It would surely be better... to give up not only a part, but, if necessary, even the whole, of our constitution, to preserve the remainder!
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Betsy Brandt It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd love to have a nice hiatus gig, like a recurring role. Or to do a good film. I'd like to do a Woody Allen movie. I really didn't have a plan, and that's okay with me.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Bobby Farrelly It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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  • Barry Goldwater It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
    Barry Goldwater
    American politician, businessman, and author (1909 - 1998)
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