Quotes with often-uncontroversial

Quotes 241 till 260 of 863.

  • E. V. Lucas I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
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  • Yves Saint-Laurent I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    French fashion designer (1936 - 2008)
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  • Noam Chomsky I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Francis Bacon I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Jimmy Carter I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Marcus Aurelius I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ann Beattie I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Aaron Eckhart I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Philip Roth I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Publilius Syrus I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Robert Frost I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Edward F. Halifax I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Richard Nixon I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Alice Hoffman I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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