Quotes with right-about-face

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  • Bell Hooks Usually, when people talk about the strength of black women.... they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bill Bixby Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.
    Bill Bixby
    American actor, director and producer (1934 - 1993)
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  • Bill Hybels Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Lee Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive; having no opposite, there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Hillary Clinton Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
    Hillary Clinton
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer Wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
    Radio Interview, October 16 2006 [31]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Bertrand Russell War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bayard Rustin War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Bertrand Russell War isn't about who's right, it's about who's left
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.
    La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Christopher Marlowe Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Anne Dudley We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Buck Henry We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.
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  • Bruce Johnston We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • James Madison We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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  • Amy Tan We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin We are, I think, in the right road of improvement, for we are making experiments.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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