Quotes with over-preoccupation

Quotes 201 till 220 of 1100.

  • Abraham Lincoln Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bill Medley Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Beck Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Carl Andre Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
    Carl Andre
    American minimalist artist (1935 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold Everybody wants to help folks out. But we've got a system where you can stay on unemployment for an awfully long time. And I think we need to create a system of decreasing benefits over time to encourage you to get a job.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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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.
    Bruce Paltrow
     
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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.
    Source: 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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  • 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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