Quotes with one-point-zero-five

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  • Burgess Owens As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot find the corporate courage to stand for the millions of courageous past great Americans whose sacrifice gave meaning to our flag and national anthem and to the millions upon millions who still dream to come to its free shores.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Beth Ditto As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bernard Goldberg As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Bono As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bridget Riley As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
    Bridget Riley: dialogues on art
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • W. H. Auden As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Atom Egoyan As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Ada Leverson As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
    Loves Shadow (1908) Ch. xxxix
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Mark Twain As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Cate Blanchett As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Carrie-Anne Moss As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you're one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Canadian actress (1967 - )
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  • Becki Newton As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Brihadaranyaka Upanishad As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.
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  • Byron Howard As animation directors, you're the first one on the film; you're the last one off, and you get to learn from and touch every department throughout the whole journey. I don't know any other job in the world that's like that. I don't think live-action is like that. It's a very different sort of experience.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Campbell Brown As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Carol Ann Duffy As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
    Interviewed in The Guardian, August 31, 2002. [1]
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Ben Chandler As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.
    Ben Chandler
    American politician and lawyer (1959 - )
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Benjamin Bratt As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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