Quotes with sky-high

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  • Peter Townshend If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
    Peter Townshend
    English musician, singer, songwriter (1945 - )
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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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  • Abraham Cahan If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
    Source: The Rise of David Levinsky
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Bill Buford If kept dry, a chocolate with a high cacao content, I've discovered, rarely spoils.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Byron Dorgan If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bhagavad Gita If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Alberto Salazar If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.
    Alberto Salazar
    American track coach and long-distance runner (1958 - )
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  • A. A. Milne If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!
    Source: When We Were Very Young Spring Morning l. 17 (1924)
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Joyce Chapman If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
    Joyce Chapman
     
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  • Bruce Lipton If your environment keeps draining your energy, it's like having a leaky bank account, where any money you're putting into the bank, such as by seeing an energy healer, keeps slipping out. You have to change your environment, including any harmful beliefs, before the energy can stay high.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Camille Paglia In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barry Marshall In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Busy Philipps In high school I had some famously egregious fashion missteps. I was really out there in fashion, I think because I wanted attention. I would wear crazy patterns, skin-tight pants and giant platform shoes.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Camille Paglia In high school in the early Sixties, I dreamed of intellectual work by women that would match the highest male standards and set men on their ear. A lot of women have done a lot of academic work since then, but most of them fall short of that standard.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Betsy Brandt In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg In high school, all my friends' older brothers had these cars. I had a number of friends whose brothers collected Dodges and Plymouths and some of the coolest cars I've ever seen when I was a kid. I was just flabbergasted.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Caity Lotz In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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  • Bo Burnham In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Bob Beamon In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.
    Bob Beamon
    American track and field athlete (1946 - )
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