Quotes with over-perform

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  • John Maynard Keynes It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Mae West It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • John Cage It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.''
    John Cage
    American composer and music (1912 - 1992)
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  • J. Cage It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of `culture'.
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  • George Orwell It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.
    Down and Out in Paris and London Ch. 33
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Aristotle It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Plautus It is easy to rule over the good.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Arthur Eddington It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Bob Ney It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • C. L. R. James It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Arthur Erickson It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Hans Christian Andersen It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
    Hans Christian Andersen
    Deens poet and fairy tale writer (1805 - 1875)
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  • Campbell Brown It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bela Lugosi It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Barney Frank It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bruce Sutter It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Barbara McClintock It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
    Barbara McClintock
    American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902 - 1992)
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