Quotes with number-one

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  • Bow Wow The whole point of the game is not to stick with one thing, because when that one thing ends, then what are you going to do? For me, I have movies, '106 & Park,' music, and other things to fall back on.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Buddha The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Horace Walpole The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Walt Whitman The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Joan Didion The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Marguerite Duras The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home - will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Carol Gilligan The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The word ''Christianity'' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Henry Miller The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Angela Davis The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Beryl Markham The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
    Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Martin Buber The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
    Martin Buber
    Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher (1878 - 1965)
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  • Swami Brahmananda The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.
    Swami Brahmananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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