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Quotes 221 till 240 of 780.

  • Bobby Fischer I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Adlai Stevenson I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
    Adlai Stevenson
    American politician and vice president (1835 - 1914)
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  • John Keats I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Bruno Dumont I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to see. So if the people want to see Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise, then it is really my job to incorporate them into my films.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Ann Bancroft I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Albert Maltz I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • Anthony Doerr I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Woody Allen I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Albert Ellis I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Brooke Shields I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Edward VIII I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. I now quit altogether public affairs, and I lay down my burden.
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  • Henry Fielding I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Adam Smith I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • John Ruskin I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Busy Philipps I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bryan Fuller I read 'Red Dragon' back in high school. I love Thomas Harris' approach to the crime thriller that crossed over into horror in a way that nobody really tapped into.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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