Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 1261 till 1280 of 12035.

  • Bruce Lee An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.
    Source: Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bo Bennett An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
    Source: Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Alexander Pope An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bell Hooks An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Alejandro Amenabar An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
    Alejandro Amenabar
    Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer (1972 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Socrates An unexamined life is not worth living.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Sigmund Freud Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Alan Dundes Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Anthony Trollope And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Bob Schieffer And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Arthur Rimbaud And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Anne Tyler And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Buck Owens And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for that.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • C. S. Lewis And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.
    Source: Out of the Silent Planet (1938) Hyoi, p. 76
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Augusten Burroughs And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Beatrice Wood And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Birch Bayh And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Bob Knight And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Aaron McGruder And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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