Quotes with shot/cut

Quotes 141 till 160 of 206.

  • Bob Barr The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Margaret Mead The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Billy Collins The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Benny Hill The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
    Benny Hill
    English comedian, actor and singer (1924 - 1992)
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  • Charles Barkley The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
    Charles Barkley
    American professional basketball player (1963 - )
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  • Humphrey Bogart The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
    Humphrey Bogart
    American screen and stage actor (1899 - 1957)
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  • Dave Barry The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Nancy Lopez The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
    Nancy Lopez
     
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Charles Buxton The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • C. S. Lewis The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Winston Churchill There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Robert Frost There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man - fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Boyd Holbrook There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.
    Boyd Holbrook
    American actor and model
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  • Bruce Babbitt There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Brenda Ueland These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget. But they have no slow, big ideas.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Bruno Schulz Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
    Bruno Schulz
     
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  • Anne Campbell They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Ben Bradlee They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.
    Ben Bradlee
    American journalist (1921 - 2014)
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