Quotes with one-child

Quotes 1521 till 1540 of 6293.

  • Bruce McCulloch However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Simone Weil Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Branford Marsalis Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Allen Klein Humor can be one of our best survival tools.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • James Thurber Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bernard Goldberg Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Bill Gates I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
    Interview on "NOW" with Bill Moyers on May 9, 2003
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • George Santayana I agree that the last years of life are the best, if one is a philosopher.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Ivan Turgenev I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
    Ivan Turgenev
    Russian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright (1818 - 1883)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Margaret Thatcher I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Walter Matthau I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.
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  • Ann Rule I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • Joan Didion I always want everything read in one sitting. If they can't read it in one sitting, you're going to lose the rhythm of it. You're going to lose the shape of it.
    (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Clarence Darrow I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Anne Sullivan I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • James Baldwin I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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