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Quotes 381 till 400 of 1724.

  • Burnie Burns Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Arthur Capper Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Vince Lombardi Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Cate Blanchett For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Vikram Seth For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Anthony Doerr For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Callie Khouri For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Benjamin E. Mays For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Margaret Mead For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Albert Claude For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Alexander Pope For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Robert Penn Warren For what is a poem, but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of autobiography.
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  • Rita Mae Brown For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Jim Rohn Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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