Quotes with over-polite

Quotes 1061 till 1080 of 1115.

  • Bunker Roy Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! - hang him!
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Ben Shapiro Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And we've had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals?
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Katharine Hepburn Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Billy Koch With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.
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  • Bill Maris With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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W. Bruce Cameron With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morning America. Oprah was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short; you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Betsey Johnson With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • William Cobbett Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Bella Abzug Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
    Bella Abzug
    American lawyer and politician (1920 - 1998)
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  • Bonnie Bedelia Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Beyonce Knowles Y'all are so cute and y'all talk so proper over here. I love England.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Beau Willimon You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Damon Runyon You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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  • Bob Newhart You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Bruce Sterling You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Richard Branson You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
    Richard Branson
    English business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1950 - )
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