Quotes 201 till 220 of 359.
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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.
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My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
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My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.
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My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
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My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
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My prayer to God is a very short one: ''O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous!'' God has granted it.
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Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
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No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
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No one had written a good long life of Schubert. He had lived long in music and short in life.
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Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.
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Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
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Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
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Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.
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Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.
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One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
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One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.
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