Quotes with petty--never

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  • Lucille Ball I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • William Somerset Maugham I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Boris Pasternak I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bruno Mars I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Al Yankovic I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.
    Al Yankovic
    American musician (1959 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice. These things can never be hinderance in the way of man, provided he be a man. You will have the practical proof in the near future.
    Source: Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Bryan Adams I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Walter Chrysler I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
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  • William S. Burroughs I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question ''Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?'' should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Reggie Jackson I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.
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  • Brock Lesnar I felt like I was cheated out of my career in the UFC. In my mind and in my heart, I never lost to a foe. I never lost to an opponent. I lost to diverticulitis. That was my opponent that beat me. A lot of other people might have other thoughts about that.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Imelda Marcos I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
    Imelda Marcos
    Filipino politician and first lady (1929 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I got a wife and kids in Baltimore, jack
    I went out for a ride and I never went back.
    Like a river that don't know where it's flowing
    I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.
    Source: The River (1980) Hungry Heart
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Burnie Burns I gotta admit, when you've been doing this a long time, going out to the audience and asking for them to help out with crowdfunding, it's a gut check. You never know how that's gonna turn out. Luckily for us, it turned out well.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Lewis Grizzard I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
    Lewis Grizzard
    American journalist (1946 - 1994)
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  • Art Linkletter I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Bruce Bennett I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say no, never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.
    Source: As quoted in an interview with Marc Blau (2004)
    Bruce Bennett
    American actor (1906 - 2007)
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  • Elie Wiesel I had anger but never hate.
    Source: The Oprah Magazine (November 2000)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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