Quotes with set-in-stone

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  • Ben Barnes Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Harold Macmillan Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • William James Men's activities are occupied into ways - in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • A. Owen Penny Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.
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  • Oliver Stone Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it.
    Oliver Stone
    American writer and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • Brit Hume MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Bill Keller My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Bill Paxton My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Boo Weekley My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and come back? Or will I just want to go home and be fishing, hunting and working around the house?
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Brooke Shields My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use a set of cards known as the Waite-Smith deck, created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a British member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the artist Pamela Colman Smith.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • W. H. Auden Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Blaise Pascal Nature has set us so well in the center, that if we change one side of the balance, we change the other also. I act. This makes me believe that the springs in our brain are so adjusted that he who touches one touches also its contrary.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Menander of Athens Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
    Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated - serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Ruth Benedict No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
    Ruth Benedict
    American anthropologist and folklorist (1887 - 1948)
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