Quotes with over-preoccupation

Quotes 441 till 460 of 1100.

  • 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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  • Bertrand Russell It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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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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  • Charlotte Brontë It seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.
    Source: Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 4
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Boris Pasternak It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Bruce Barton It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Billy Wilder It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Horace Walpole It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Audre Lorde It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bob Woodward It's all over, he said to Cooke. You've got to come clean. The notes show us the story is wrong. We know it. We can show you point by point how you concocted it.
    Source: Post Reporters Pulitzer Prize Is Withdrawn; Pulitzer Board Withdraws Post Reporters Prize (19 April 1981)
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Bill Bailey It's always been my long-held belief that eventually insects will take over the world.
    Source: Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Carson Daly It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Caroline Dhavernas It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Blair Underwood It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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