Quotes with set-up

Quotes 161 till 180 of 408.

  • William James It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Greil Marcus It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.
    Greil Marcus
    American author, music journalist and critic (1945 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Bill Condon It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Barry Zito It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
    Barry Zito
    American baseball pitcher and musician (1978 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Bill Paxton It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Samuel Smiles Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Denis Waitley Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Barney Frank Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Nelson Mandela Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Bill Cosby Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Herman Melville Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Oscar Wilde Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • James Russell Lowell Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Les Brown Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Mario Puzo Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Horace Mann Lost - Yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
    Source: A Beautiful Thought… we clip from an exchange paper Universalist Union (16 March 1844)
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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