Quotes with over-preoccupation

Quotes 301 till 320 of 1100.

  • Sam Walton I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Albert Ellis I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Joan Rivers I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
    Joan Rivers
    American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and producer (1933 - 2014)
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  • Beck I have a fear of heights, so falling off something very tall. But I've conquered a good amount of my fears. I guess most people would have the fear of getting up in front of a large audience of people and making a fool of themselves. I've gotten over that.
    On the Couch, NME
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Alan Dundes I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Louise Erdrich I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Steven Wright I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Abu Bakr I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Audre Lorde I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Charles Baudelaire I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Lord George Byron I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world - not much remembered when the ball is over.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Lord George Byron I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Nelson Mandela I have learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. A brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
    Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Angela Carter I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Martin Luther King I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Adele I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Anita Diamant I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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