Quotes with number-one

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  • Marilyn Monroe Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • B. J. Daniels During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thought I might be drafted. I'm glad it worked out I'm here.
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Mark Twain Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anais Nin Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • George Orwell Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Louise Erdrich Each life is one short word slowly uttered.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Bruno Maag Each script has its own calligraphic and cultural history. It is more a question of matching different calligraphic styles to one another, without the features of one script dominating another.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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  • Gore Vidal Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one - and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • H. Ross Perot Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book - I call that vicious!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Anthony Caro Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.
    Anthony Caro
    English sculptor (1924 - 2013)
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  • Carre Otis Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.
    Carre Otis
    American model and actress (1968 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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