Quotes with petty--never

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  • Blake Lewis Now I'm 'Blake Lewis' to the world, but I will always still be Bshorty from Bothell...I've never looked at it like a competition so I think I've won regardless. I won when I got to the top ten; I've already reached my goal.
    In interviews Hot Guy of the Week: American Idols Blake Lewis. U
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  • Harriet Tubman Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
    Harriet Tubman
    American abolitionist and humanitarian (1822 - 1913)
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  • Barack Obama Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aaron Spelling Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • William Shakespeare O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Philip Roth Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Ben E. King Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Aeschylus Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Thomas Haynes Bayly Oh! no! we never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbid to speak, that once familiar word.
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  • Sydney Smith Oh, don't tell me of facts - I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Butch Trucks Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Carry Nation Oh, I tell you, ladies, you never know what joy it gives you to start out to smash a rumshop.
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  • Margaret Oliphant Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Cato the Elder Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Douglas Macarthur Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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