Quotes 441 till 460 of 616.
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The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
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The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer - he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.
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The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.
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The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.
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The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
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The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.
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The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.
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The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
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The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
Bruce Springsteen Talking -
The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
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The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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