Quotes with out-of-the-way

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  • James Baldwin Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Stephen Vizinczey Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bill Buford Most chartreuse recipes call for one bird, a fat one, like a pigeon or a partridge, secreted inside the casing, a vegetable mold, which is then turned out onto a plate.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Barbara Corcoran Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Alan Dershowitz Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Alan Moore Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • Adam Sandler Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Bob Seger Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Brendan Fraser Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • William James Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bobby Cox Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.
    Bobby Cox
    American baseball player and manager (1941 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • John Ruskin Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Augustus William Hare Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Bobby Darin Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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