Quotes with over-preoccupation

Quotes 961 till 980 of 1100.

  • Henry David Thoreau We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bobby Doerr We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.
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  • Marian Wright Edelman We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
    Marian Wright Edelman
    American activist for children's rights (1939 - )
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  • Jean Rostand We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Ben Gibbard We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Charles F. Kettering We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • William Ellery Channing We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Bob Weir We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.
    Bob Weir
    American musician and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Bob Menendez We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Brad D. Smith We've been delivering cloud-based services for over a decade, with more than 30 million Intuit customers using offerings across a variety of desktop and mobile devices. The benefits are clear: online experiences are simply better for customer.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Bob Seger We've been really lucky. We've gotten a lot of airplay over the years. I guess people keep requesting our songs on the radio, because Lord knows I don't do a whole lot to promote myself.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist We've made a lot of strides over the years in making the game better for players to be able to stay healthy and showcase talent.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Bruce Johnston We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Angela Davis Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Bratt Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Alexander Downer Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.
    Alexander Downer
    Australian politician and diplomat (1951 - )
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  • Marilyn French Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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