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Quotes 281 till 300 of 684.

  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Henry Miller It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Greil Marcus It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.
    Greil Marcus
    American author, music journalist and critic (1945 - )
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  • William Shakespeare It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Louis de Bernieres It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Anais Nin It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Cal Hubbard It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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  • Bill Bryson It was impossible to determine what he was saying, but I imagined he was telling all those present that they were nongs and maggots. I decided I quite liked watching the news with the sound off.
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bill Paxton It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Carol Lynley It was strange being an adolescent fantasy for other people. I was so cut off from the real world. I went straight into the movies as a teenybopper, and had a very protracted adolescence myself. I was divorced when I was 20, but I was an adolescent until I was 26. Then I was in Europe, living with this fellow and he kind of helped me out. Told me some things about myself.
    Interview by Roger Ebert, December 4, 1972
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  • Barbara Kingsolver It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Busta Rhymes It's been three years since I last performed here so I'm dying to tear the roof off Wembley Arena with some old school joints and brand new bangers. When I'm done, you're gonna remember it for a long time to come.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Brene Brown It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Bill Hicks It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Bokeem Woodbine It's not in my nature to chop people's heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I've done on screen. I'm just comfortable reading a book or spending time with my wife and my daughter or watching the fight on TV with the fellas.
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