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Quotes 61 till 80 of 362.

  • Lee Iacocca Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'' It's called perseverance.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Jonathan Swift But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Brad Feld By 2002, I realized that what was classically called a rollup strategy was not generally effective, at least not for me.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Clare Boothe Luce Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [With] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Barry Levinson Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Seneca Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • John Donne Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Lord George Byron Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bryan Batt Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Mary Baker Eddy Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • Alfred de Vigny Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • B. F. Skinner Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Beau Bridges Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Dave Barry Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Billy Collins Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bar Refaeli Every time I come home, and every time before I leave, I invite all my friends and I get hummus from this little shack in Tel Aviv called Baadunas.
    Bar Refaeli
    Israeli model, actress, and entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Orson Welles Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Eliot Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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