Quotes with one-man

Quotes 2901 till 2920 of 10005.

  • Bruce Springsteen I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Ben Hecht I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Anne Stevenson I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • E. M. Forster I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Henry Ford I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • C. S. Lewis I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Francis Bacon I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language - religion - government - blood - identity in these makes men of one country.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Arne Jacobsen I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Joseph De Maistre I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Chang-tzu I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
    Chang-tzu
     
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  • Anthony Trollope I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • John Maynard Keynes I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Bette Davis I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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