Quotes with over-preoccupation

Quotes 881 till 900 of 1100.

  • Ben Parr There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Brit Hume There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Afrika Bambaataa There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Bill Simmons There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Samuel Beckett There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Bruno Schulz Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
    Bruno Schulz
     
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  • Barry Switzer They had no game plan for losing.... Because when you can't win a game, you need to run the clock, don't let it stop, don't throw passes incomplete... get the game over with, get on the bus and go home.
    Barry Switzer
     
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Confucius Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bo Bennett Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
    Source: Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Marc Andreessen This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
    Marc Andreessen
    American entrepreneur, investor, and software (1971 - )
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  • Biz Stone This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis - and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • Karl Kraus This is something that I cannot get over - that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy This is the word tightrope. Now imagine
    a man, inching across it in the space
    between our thoughts. He holds our breath. There is no word net. You want him to fall, don't you?
    I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
    The word applause is written all over him.
    Source: Standing Female Nude (1985)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Ann Bancroft This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Florence King Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Carre Otis Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.
    Carre Otis
    American model and actress (1968 - )
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  • Bob Schaffer Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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