Quotes 5661 till 5680 of 5916.
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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.
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Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?
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Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
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Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
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Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.
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Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got 'Mike & Molly,' wishing me congratulations. I'm always the last one to the party, man. But that's okay. I got there.
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Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2015) -
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.''
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Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, Hey... (pantomimes hitting his son) We don't hit. He looked at me like, Here's your sign, Dad.
Source: Heres Your Sign -
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will provide.
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Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.
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Yet, that's what studios do. If one thing works, they'll keep doing it till it runs its course and people aren't interested anymore.
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You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.
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You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
Source: The White Company (1891)
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