Quotes 4461 till 4480 of 5195.
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.
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Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
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War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ''realistically;'' that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.
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Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.
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Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!
A prayer for Owen Meany (1989) -
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
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Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
Faceboek (2011) -
We actually aren't able to play other people's songs. The one Stones song we tried to play was Jumpin' Jack Flash. It was really bad. So we started writing our own — it was easier.
Rolling Stone interview (2005) -
We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word admire then means marvel at.
Beyond Freedom and Dignity -
We all have the same problem as human beings. And it's something that we are born with, and we just see it manifest in different ways. And in this situation, it's racial. It's brutality. It's people breaking the law. It's the smoke, but the underlying fire is something that we all have to deal with, and that's our sin.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.
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We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.
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We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
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We always blame other people when things go wrong. For example, family to friends, you think they'll stay by your side, and you realise they never do. But that's life.
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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