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Quotes 561 till 580 of 1724.

  • E. F. Schumacher I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
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  • Rosa Parks I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Albert Einstein I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Seth Godin I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
    Seth Godin
    American author and business executive (1960 - )
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  • Bette Midler I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.'' I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Col. Harland Sanders I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.
    Col. Harland Sanders
    American businessman, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) (1890 - 1980)
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  • Adolf Galland I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Yogi Berra I made a wrong mistake
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Napoleon I made all my generals out of mud.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Frank Capra I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
    Frank Capra
    American film director (1897 - 1991)
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  • William Somerset Maugham I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Jane Austen I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.
    in April 2010
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bruce Vilanch I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Antonin Artaud I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Carl Sandburg I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Charles M. Schulz I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.
    Charles M. Schulz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Busy Philipps I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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