Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 6301 till 6320 of 12035.

  • Bill Skarsgard My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold My home is not a place, it is people.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Ovid My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Bruce Sterling My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Oprah Winfrey My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Brandon Sanderson My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • Ben Folds My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Arthur Blank My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.
    Arthur Blank
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Ann Druyan My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Maya Angelou My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Anna Held My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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W. Bruce Cameron My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn't be happier that's where I start. I can put as many flawed people in the dog's world as I like, but the dog doesn't care. Dog doesn't judge. Dog doesn't dislike. Dog loves. That's not so bad.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.
    Source: Radio Interview, March 10 1999 [9]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Blake Farenthold My message on immigration is that the people who want to come to this country, by and large, even those who have done it illegally, are coming for the right reasons, not to take advantage of our welfare system.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Barry Larkin My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Bode Miller My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Bailee Madison My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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