Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 12035.

  • Allen Tate According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Joan Collins According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not. I've divorced people for that.
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  • Ayn Rand Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Ayn Rand Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Ben Bernanke Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Barry Eichengreen Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jeanne Moreau Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
    Jeanne Moreau
    French actress (1928 - 2017)
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  • Glenda Jackson Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
    Glenda Jackson
    British actress and politician (1936 - 2023)
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  • Kate Reid Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
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  • Carole Bouquet Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Ted Danson Acting is pretending that you're not pretending when you're actually pretending.
    Ted Danson
    American actor, author and producer (1947 - )
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  • Katharine Hepburn Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Bill Skarsgard Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Albert Pike Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • William James Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • William James Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    German church leader and resistance fighter (1906 - 1945)
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