Quotes 121 till 140 of 310.
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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
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If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
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If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
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In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
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In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
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In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
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In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.
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In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.
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In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
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In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.
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In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
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India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.
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Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.
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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
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It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.
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It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
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It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
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It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
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