Quotes with second

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  • Bill Engvall When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but they didn't know what to do with us. They had 'Reba,' which was number one, and we were number two, and they didn't want to be known as the hayseed network, so they kind of dropped us, even though we were pulling great numbers.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist When I move to second after playing right field, I feel like my action has gotten too deliberate, and I have to switch back into that quicker, boom-boom infield mode.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Ang Lee When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Brad Feld When I think about the books I've written, it probably takes 150,000-200,000 words to get a 50,000 page book. Highlighting something and hitting Cmd-X is second nature.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Henry Fielding When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Albert Einstein When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Barbara Corcoran When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Carlos Ghosn When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Woman was God's second mistake.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Pascrell Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Ben E. King Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Barbara de Angelis You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner You don't have to be Wilt Chamberlain to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you don't have a sweet turnaround jumper from 18 feet, the best route to the Hall is fatherhood. Daniel Biasone, aka the 'father of the 24-second clock,' made the cut.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Yogi Berra You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Omar Khayyam You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • C. S. Lewis You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.' 'Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 59
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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