Quotes with set-up

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  • Carol Loomis There is a certain oddity to Larry Fink having problems in Washington. He is a strong Democrat who has close ties to President Obama and has often been rumored as set to take a big administration job, such as Secretary of the Treasury.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Henry Fielding There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to ''Americanize'' him.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Jean Baudrillard There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith There is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Ben Kingsley There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej There may be some people in the country who forget to perform their duty. You should set an example by doing your job with honesty and faithfulness.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Ben Kingsley There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Cameron Bright There's no set-in-stone way to be a vampire, especially with the evil ones.
    Cameron Bright
    Canadian actor (1993 - )
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  • Brea Grant There's something really amazing about watching an actor like Michael C. Hall or Jennifer Carpenter, who are completely professional and do everything so brilliantly, but yet can have a really great time on set.
    Brea Grant
    American actress and writer (1981 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • P. T. Barnum Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Og Mandino To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Anatole France To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Bonnie Hunt To have children on the set, you realize that if a 10-year-old can do it, who are you kidding? It humbles you.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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