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Quotes 641 till 660 of 684.

  • Allen Klein Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Bill Hicks Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?
    Chicago 91
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Philip Larkin Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Bayard Taylor With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • George Orwell Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Jean Paul Getty Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Caroline Knapp Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Lord George Byron Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Aldous Huxley Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George Eliot Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Buddy Ebsen Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
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  • Germaine Greer Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Alan Watts You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Clarence Day You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
    Clarence Day
    American author and cartoonist (1874 - 1935)
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  • Bill Paxton You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • A. R. Ammons You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Pat Barker You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.
    Niemandsland (1993) 226
    Pat Barker
    British writer (1943 - )
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  • Aaron McGruder You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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