Quotes with perfection-you

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  • Calvin Trillin What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Frank Crane What is a friend? I will tell you… it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
    Frank Crane
    American actor
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  • Antonin Scalia What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?
    Antonin Scalia
    American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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  • Barry Humphries What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Leszczynski Stanislaus What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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  • Ernest Hemingway What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • John Ruskin What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bela Karolyi What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Marina Tsvetaeva What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.
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  • John McEnroe What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
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  • Barbara Kingsolver What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Al Yankovic What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
    Al Yankovic
    American musician (1959 - )
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  • Seneca What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Brendan Myers What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Paul Auster What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
    The Book of Illusions (2009) 32
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde What of Art?
    - It is a malady.
    Love?
    - An Illusion.
    Religion?
    - The fashionable substitute for Belief.
    You are a sceptic.
    - Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
    What are you?
    - To define is to limit.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Cab Calloway What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Barbara Corcoran What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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