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Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 6209.

  • A. N. Wilson I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bryan Brown I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
    Bryan Brown
     
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  • Burt Rutan I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Jim Bakker I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
    Jim Bakker
    American televangelist (1940 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Alice James I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Charlie Chaplin I suppose that's one of the ironies of life, doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Terence I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Sri Sarada Devi I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
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  • Carl Sandburg I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Mark Twain I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Jonathan Safran Foer I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
    Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 17
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    American novelist (1977 - )
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  • Buddy Rich I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Aaron Eckhart I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Jean Rostand I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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