Quotes with over-preoccupation

Quotes 601 till 620 of 1100.

  • Butch Trucks One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Angelina Grimke Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Walter Benjamin Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Woody Allen Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bo Sanchez Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.
    Bo Sanchez
    Filippine author, lay pastor and entrepreneur (1966 - )
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  • Barack Obama Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
    Speech, 04-12-2014
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bill Shuster Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bob Filner Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • John Berger Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Barbara Amiel Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Jonathan Raban Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
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  • Barack Obama Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.
    9 May 2008. youtu.be/EpGH02DtIws
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Anita Roddick Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Levitt Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Bliss Carman Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Billy Graham Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Ben Carson Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Carol Roth Over the years, I have created close friendships with many successful men, many of whom I have made a lot of money for through deals that I brought to them or business counsel that I have provided.
    Carol Roth
    American television personality and author (1973 - )
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