Quotes with not-too-distant

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  • Anne Dudley My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Huey Newton My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Barack Obama My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
    20-11-2014
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.
    Inaugural, 20-01-1961
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Brendan Myers My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.
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  • George Bernard Shaw My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bernadette Devlin My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
    Bernadette Devlin
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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  • Bill Flores My goal is to be the tough negotiator but... not to air differences through press releases.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Brock Lesnar My hands. I'm constantly working on my hands. I'm constantly working on my ground game and constantly trying not to get satisfied with where I'm at with my career and where I'm at as an athlete. I'm somewhat happy, but never satisfied.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • A. E. Housman My heart always warms to people who do not come to see me, especially Americans, to whom it seems to be more of an effort.
    Letter to Neilson Abeel (October 4, 1935).
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Blanche Lincoln My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Bill Skarsgard My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold My home is not a place, it is people.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Ovid My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Brandon Sanderson My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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