Quotes with over-reaching

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  • Carol Burnett But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Billie Burke But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?
    Billie Burke
    American actress (1884 - 1970)
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  • Judith Viorst But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.
    Judith Viorst
    American writer and journalist (1931 - )
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  • Dorothea Brande By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Bob Considine Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
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  • John Updike Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ''somebody,'' to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Nadine Gordimer Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Billie Jean King Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Bill Kurtis Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Alan Dundes Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Vance Havner Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Cyril Connolly Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Samuel Johnson Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • A. E. Housman Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
    Breath's a ware that will not keep.
    Up, lad: when the journey's over
    There'll be time enough to sleep.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 4 (Reveille), st. 6
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Brit Hume CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Barry Diller Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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