Quotes with number-one

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  • Anna Julia Cooper One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Merlin Olsen One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
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  • Ben Zobrist One of my best friends, James Miller, managed to find the only Cubs hat that is all red.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Alex Cox One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Carla Hall One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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  • Anita Diamant One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Bailee Madison One of my favorite traditions is that my sisters and I, we all wear the same pajamas. I've even still got some from when I was 6. Also, I'll always remember cooking together in the kitchen and that no matter how busy our schedules are, we are all together for Christmas.
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, end. One of the bands that changed that was The Beatles. If you listen to 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.' It's three verses, bridge, end.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Carolyn Murphy One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
    Speech Republican National Convention 2004
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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  • George W. Bush One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Josh Billings One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Abraham Pais One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
    To Save A Life : Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • A. A. Milne One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Iain Banks One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.
    The Player of Games (1988) 279
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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