Quotes with phrase-making

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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • John Lennon The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Bruce Sterling The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Bernadette Peters The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Marcel Duchamp The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Bee Wilson The comeback of true green olives was part of a Spanish food revival in the early 2000s. I credit Sam and Sam Clark of Moro Restaurant in London with making them cool again.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • William Somerset Maugham The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • O. J. Simpson The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
    O. J. Simpson
     
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  • Lee Iacocca The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Cecil J. Sharpe The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest.
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  • Denis Waitley The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • John Keats The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Bob Woodward The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Bill Buford The first sign that I'd been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I'd been making toast. 'First, we cut our bread,' I whispered. 'Do you know why?' I stopped what I was doing and looked up. 'Let me tell you why.'
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Robert Frost The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Caitlin Moran The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
    Source: The Buffalo Bill Megapack: 5 Classic Books About Buffalo Bill Cody (2013 edition), Wildside Press LLC
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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