Quotes 101 till 120 of 2063.
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...they give us vicarious satisfactions for many of our frustrations....People need exercise; they do not need to watch other people exercise... Another vicarious satisfaction is sexy magazines; this is vicarious sex. To anyone rushing to buy one, I'd like to say, The real thing is better.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
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A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.
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A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people.
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A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
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A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
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A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
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A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.
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A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I'm locating myself in time. I like to feel oriented, and I like to orient the reader at the beginning of a poem.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing.
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A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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