Quotes with prosperity-at-any-price

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  • Brenda Blethyn It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.
    Brenda Blethyn
    English actress (1946 - )
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  • Bjorn Borg It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Penelope Fitzgerald It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.
    Penelope Fitzgerald
    English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer (1916 - 2000)
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  • Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.
    Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Barbara Windsor Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
    Barbara Windsor
    English actress (1937 - )
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  • Bobby Keys John Lennon, who was a good friend of mine, he had one of the best senses of humor of any human being. And Keith Richards, fantastic sense of humor. They were smart, sharp. They had their own thoughts on matters.
    Bobby Keys
    American saxophonist (1943 - 2014)
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  • Andrew Vachss Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
    Andrew Vachss
    American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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  • Archibald MacLeish Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
    Archibald MacLeish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Karl Kraus Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Regis McKenna Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry.
    Regis McKenna
    American marketing expert (1939 - )
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Bruce Forsyth Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Betsey Johnson Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Kircher lays it down as a certain principle, that there never was any people so rude which did not acknowledge and worship one supreme Deity.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.
    Source: Works of Abraham Lincoln (2010 edition)
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Samuel Smiles Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Adam Smith Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Buck Owens Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don't have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Bryant Gumbel Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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