Quotes with single-mindedness

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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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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Jo Coudert You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
    Jo Coudert
    American author
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  • An Wang You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
    An Wang
    Chinese–American computer engineer and inventor (1920 - 1990)
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  • Bill Clinton You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Mark Twain You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Hall You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
    A Summons to New Orleans
    Barbara Hall
    American television writer and producer (1960 - )
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  • Bipasha Basu You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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