Quotes with simple-minded

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  • Cate Blanchett You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Larry Mcmurtry You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
    Larry Mcmurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • A. E. van Vogt You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Curtis Carlson You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Carolyn Wells Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • E. F. Schumacher An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Alfred E. Smith Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
    Alfred E. Smith
    American politician (1873 - 1944)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Karl Marx On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its ''great intellects.''
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Robert M. Pirsig The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
    Robert M. Pirsig
    American writer and philosopher (1928 - 2017)
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  • J. P. Donleavy When you don't have any money, the problem is food, When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, its. It's health, If everything is simple, then you're frightened of death.
    J. P. Donleavy
    Irish/American novelist and playwright (1926 - 2017)
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