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Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 1724.

  • Alfred Hitchcock These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Caroline Knapp These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Benjamin Britten These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.
    Letters from a Life Volume 3
    Benjamin Britten
    English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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  • Adam Smith They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
    The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part IV (1759)
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Raymond Chandler They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Frederick the Great They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Bryan Robson They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Bill Moseley They're pretty extreme, but I loved the two 'Human Centipede' films from Tom Six. Those movies are fun because they're well-made. They're crazy and psychotic and perverted and twisted, but they're really well-made.
    Bill Moseley
    American film actor and musician (1951 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • C. J. Cherryh Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it.
    Arafels Saga (1983) The Dreamstone, Book One : The Gruagach, Ch. 1 : O
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • William Shakespeare This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Barry Diller This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Aneurin Bevan This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Woody Guthrie This land is your land, this land is my land, from California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream's waters. This land was made for you and me.
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  • Aaron Klug This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Bo Bennett Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Oliver Cromwell Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keeps peace.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Tristan Tzara Thought is made in the mouth.
    Tristan Tzara
    Romanian poet and artist (ps. by Sami Rosenstock) (1896 - 1963)
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