Quotes with not-too-distant

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  • Brad Dourif Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when they meet me. If they're scared, they keep their shuddering to themselves.
    Brad Dourif
    American actor (1950 - )
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  • Judith Guest Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
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  • John Stuart Mill General laws may be laid down respecting the tides; predictions may be founded on those laws, and the result will in the main, though often not with complete accuracy, correspond to the predictions.
    A System of Logic, Book 6, The Logic of the Moral Sciences Ch. 3
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • William Hazlitt General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bruce Nauman Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • André Malraux Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Robert Graves Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
    Robert Graves
    English poet, historical novelist, critic and classicist (1895 - 1985)
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  • Alice Duer Miller Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Ben Shapiro Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Brendan Fraser George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Les Brown Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Mertz Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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  • R.D. Clyde Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively.
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  • Bill Buford Giada De Laurentiis, of 'Everyday Italian,' is not a chef, although she has culinary expertise - she was trained at the Cordon Bleu and worked as a private cook for a wealthy Los Angeles family.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Beth Ditto Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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