Quotes with place

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  • Blake Mycoskie Most people yearn to contribute, make the world a better place and have success.... all at the same time... Make sure to give your business a background, a mission and a story. That might be the most important step part of any venture. And remember, giving may be the best investment you ever make.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Angela Carter Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Much pessimism is caused by ascribing to others the feelings you would feel if you were in their place.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Pat Barker Murder is only killing in the wrong place.
    Weg der geesten (1996) 30
    Pat Barker
    British writer (1943 - )
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  • W. H. Auden Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bernard Tschumi My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Beth Henley My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Junot Diaz My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.
    (2008)
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold My home is not a place, it is people.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Ben Harper My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Oprah Winfrey My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Bob Corker My role is not so much to lobby but be a sounding board for people. That's a more effective place for me to be.
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Bradley Joseph My songs bring images to the listener's mind. The object is to transport my listeners to another place, some place sacred and spiritual that will make them glad they took the ride.
    On composing Official Bio and Reflections Bio
    Bradley Joseph
    American composer and producer
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  • Burt Rutan NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Callie Khouri Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Annie Leibovitz Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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