Quotes with over-preoccupation

Quotes 321 till 340 of 1100.

  • Bryan Fuller I read 'Red Dragon' back in high school. I love Thomas Harris' approach to the crime thriller that crossed over into horror in a way that nobody really tapped into.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Burt Shavitz I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Jimmy Carter I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bill Hybels I sometimes wonder if my requests are legitimate. So I'm honest with God. I say, Lord, I don't know if I have the right to ask for this. I don't know how I should pray about it. But I hand it over to your now, and if you'll tell me how to pray, I'll pray your way.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • John McCain I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Martin Luther King I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Kofi Annan I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Arthur Laffer I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • George W. Bush I think we all agree, the past is over.
    Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery I want to impose on everyone that the bad times are over, they are finished! Our mandate from the Prime Minister is to destroy the Axis forces in North Africa...It can be done, and it will be done!
    Said to his troops in North Africa, promising the swift defeat of Rommel
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
    Player Piano
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Woody Allen I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bill Hicks I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great. He goes, What? I'm 28.
    Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Annie Dillard I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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