Quotes with not-too-distant

Quotes 3061 till 3080 of 11267.

  • Barack Obama I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
    As quoted in "Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise", Tavis Smiley, Simon and Schuster, 2009, p. 198
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Alfred Day Hershey I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
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  • Aldous Huxley I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bruce Forsyth I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Toni Morrison I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Armistead Maupin I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Audre Lorde I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Billie Holiday I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Philip Roth I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Lillian Hellman I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
    Lillian Hellman
    American playwright (1905 - 1984)
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  • Martin Luther I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
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  • Henry Ford I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • John Milton I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • William Shakespeare I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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