Quotes with phrase-making

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  • John Sculley I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.
    John Sculley
     
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  • Abraham H. Maslow I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Bill Gates I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
    Source: 1989 speech on the history of the microcomputer industry. [1]
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • John D. Rockefeller I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • John D. Rockefeller I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Bruce Willis I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was hardly written, but I learned a lot making it. No one remembers it.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Antoine Fuqua I like making movies.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Butch Trucks I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Charles Darwin I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Bob Saget I really love making people laugh.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Leo Tolstoy I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Bryan Singer I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Stendhal I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • David Cronenberg I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
    David Cronenberg
    Canadian movie maker (1943 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a globalization, a globalization of people who are committed to social justice, to economic justice. We need a globalization of people who are committed to saving this earth, to making sure that the water is drinkable, that the air is breathable.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Arthur Hiller I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • Toni Morrison I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Abbey Lincoln I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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