Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 1481 till 1500 of 12035.

  • Avi Arad At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Al Yankovic At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.
    Al Yankovic
    American musician (1959 - )
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  • Ben Nicholson At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Angela Merkel At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Allen Tate At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Burt Rutan At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Simone Weil Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Samuel Johnson Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Allan Bloom Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Erich Fromm Authority is not a quality one person ''has,'' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • C. S. Lewis Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Horace Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Sydney Smith Avoid shame but do not seek glory - nothing so expensive as glory.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Eric Berne Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.
    Source: Games People Play
    Eric Berne
    Canadian-born psychiatrist (1910 - 1970)
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  • George Canning Away with the cant of ''Measures, not men!'' - the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.
    George Canning
    British statesman (1770 - 1827)
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  • Bethenny Frankel Baby wipes are great for everything! For wiping babies' butts, as an eye-makeup remover, to wipe the counter, to clean my hands at the airport, just everything.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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  • Bela Karolyi Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Bob Keeshan Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • B. B. King Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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