Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Beck What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win every fight, but they want to see him stand up and fight for what he believes, take his case to the American people.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Wendell Phillips What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Jonathan Swift What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly: that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
    Source: Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Bernie Sanders What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bruce Lee What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds body feel and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
    Source: Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Stephen Leacock What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Campbell Scott What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.
    Campbell Scott
    American actor, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Aldous Huxley What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Clinton What we have to do now is not to forget these people and places when all the cameras are not there. I think that's the most important message I can say to the American people right now.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Barry Manilow What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • William Wordsworth What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Bertrand Russell What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Francis Herbert Hedge What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.
    Francis Herbert Hedge
    British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Barry Diller What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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