Quotes with not-too-distant

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  • Carol Loomis Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base repels them. Their inclination instead is to get bigger, and this often leads them to pay rich prices for acquisitions that never earn their keep.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • George Bernard Shaw Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Shakespeare Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Augustus William Hare Some men treat the God of their fathers as they treat their father's friend. They do not deny him; by no means: they only deny themselves to him, when he is good enough to call upon them.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Beau Bridges Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Billy Campbell Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Bud Grant Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Doug Larson Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Vince Lombardi Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing - the result.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Margaret Drabble Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bell Hooks Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • A. A. Milne Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Olive Schreiner Some people dare not feel fully, all life must be a long self-repression.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • C. S. Lewis Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
    Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ava Gardner Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]
    Ava Gardner
    American film actress (1922 - 1990)
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  • Thomas Szasz Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Burning Spear Some people see life as many steps up and try to forget where they are coming from, you understand? A little step in life on a commercial or a material level is a good step, but a big step does not mean a strong step - you tend to lose your roots - and if you don't be careful, you can fall.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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