Quotes with not-too-distant

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  • Bette Midler A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.
    The Strip podcast interviewed by Steve Friess[12 27 2007 @ 20:59]PODXIES
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Bill Walton A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Bernard Goldberg A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Calista Flockhart A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Butch Trucks A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Barry Levinson A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Brenda Holloway A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.
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  • Bill Hader A lot of times I think people, when they're doing a movie that's a family movie, they're worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Ben Schnetzer A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Bell Hooks A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Beryl Markham A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • John Burroughs A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Mark Twain A man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carole Bouquet A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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