Quotes with one-in-a-million

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  • John Stuart Mill That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Avicenna That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Atom Egoyan That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Carlton Cuse That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Neil Armstrong That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
    Neil Armstrong
    American astronaut and engineer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Oprah Winfrey That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Alberto Giacometti That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • George Eliot That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bobby Fischer That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Barry McGuire That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Leslie Fiedler The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
    Leslie Fiedler
    American literary critic (1917 - 2003)
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  • Bob Barr The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word 'No.'
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Sir William Temple The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • André Gide The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Iris Murdoch The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Jean Cocteau The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination - aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • Phyllis Schlafly The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.
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