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Quotes 101 till 120 of 408.

  • Bette Davis I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bryan Greenberg I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Steve Martin I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
    Steve Martin
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer and musician (1945 - )
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  • Curtis Carlson I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Bryan Robson I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Arthur Wellesley I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • Abu Bakr I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Ellen Glasgow I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Sir Francis Drake I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
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  • Jane Austen I pay very little regard to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Michelangelo I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity...
    Source: Grunch of Giants (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Arthur Hailey I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • John Wesley I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • William Butler Yeats I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Martina Navratilova I think the key is for women not to set any limits.
    Martina Navratilova
    American Tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar I wasn't happy at the career I was at and wanted to try something else, and so I tried fighting, and it's working out pretty well. I set my own schedule; I have my own training facilities. I'm not traveling as much, and I'm at home every night.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Bunker Roy I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and it almost killed me. I was all set to be a diplomat, teacher, doctor - all laid out.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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