Quotes with over-confidence

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  • Brenda Blethyn Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
    Brenda Blethyn
    English actress (1946 - )
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  • Bruce Paltrow Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.
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  • André Gide Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Bob Geldof Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act... The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach.
    The Name and Nature of Poetry
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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  • Martin Luther Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
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  • Robert Collier Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • William Cowper Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Percy Ross Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
    Percy Ross
    American businessman (1916 - 2001)
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  • Howard Nemerov For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application - why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
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  • William Wordsworth For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Bahman Ghobadi For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Albert Claude For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Bill Buford For reasons I didn't understand, I felt I needed to learn how to cook the food of France and knew that I was going to have to get over to the country: to Paris, I'd always assumed.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Anthony Weiner For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Nathaniel Branden For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Edgar Cayce For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
    Edgar Cayce
    American clairvoyant (1877 - 1945)
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