Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 3762.
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One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That's why animals are great.
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One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.
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One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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One person can change the world.
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One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
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One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.
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Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
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Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
― Abraham Cahan
Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician -
Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.
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Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.
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Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
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Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people.
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
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