Quotes with phrase-making

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  • Benjamin Walker Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Robert Menzies Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.
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  • Gloria Steinem Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Leon Blum Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
    Leon Blum
    French politician
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  • Carter Burwell Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Aaron Latham Movie making is the slowest business on earth next to fossil manufacture.
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  • Bernhard von Bulow Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Cliff Fadiman Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
    Cliff Fadiman
    American writer
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  • Bill Dedman MSNBC policy requires journalists to report any potential conflict of interest and to seek approval from the president of NBC News before making any political contribution.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Abel Ferrara My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III My father offered his life so our democracy could live. My mother devoted her life to nurturing that democracy. I will dedicate my life to making our democracy reach its fullest potential: that of ensuring equality for all. My family has sacrificed much, and I am willing to do this again if necessary.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Jean Paul Getty My father said: ''You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.''
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Anish Kapoor My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Busta Rhymes My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Bre Pettis My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Billy Collins My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Austrian composer, pianist, violinist and conductor (1756 - 1791)
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