Quotes with single-minded

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  • Ben Carson We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Medley We were so busy that right before we recorded the follow-up single to 'Lovin' Feelin' I had a nervous breakdown. I just folded. I had to stay in bed for a couple of months and rest.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Aristotle What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • John McEnroe What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Blake Mycoskie When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Erma Bombeck When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, ''I used everything you gave me.''.
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Cass Sunstein When like-minded people, talking mostly with one another, end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk... If you put a bunch of rebels in a room and ask them to discuss rebellion, they'll get more extreme.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bessie Smith When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.
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  • Italo Calvino When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • William Shakespeare When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Campbell Brown Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Steven Spielberg Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
    Steven Spielberg
    American director, producer, and screenwriter (1946 - )
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  • Bennie Thompson While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Carrie Snow Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
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  • Cesare Pavese Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Bram Stoker Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Brendon Urie Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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