Quotes with single-string

Quotes 121 till 140 of 344.

  • John F. Kennedy I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, ''Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.''
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Butch Trucks I have the distinction of being the only member of the Allman Brothers who has never missed a single show. I have played every single show the Allman Brothers have ever played.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Charles Barkley I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
    Charles Barkley
    American professional basketball player (1963 - )
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  • Arnold Schoenberg I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
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  • Ann Veneman I think it's a little early to tell what the economic impact will be. This year our cattle prices have been particularly high. The demand for beef has remained strong in this country, even though there was the single find in Canada earlier this year.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Ann Veneman I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Angela Davis I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Edward Gibbon I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Augusten Burroughs I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Al Sharpton I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Queen Elizabeth I I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Bruce Babbitt I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Brooks Robinson I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.
    Brooks Robinson
    American professional baseball player (1937 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I've always been a little bit cautious about what projects I step into. I don't mean to be dramatic, but I feel that every single thing you do in life, you give a piece of your soul, and I want to be responsible with that.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Sylvester Stallone I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.
    Sylvester Stallone
    American actor and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Ann Landers If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ''I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.''
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Charlotte Brontë If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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