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Quotes 701 till 720 of 885.

  • Carey Mulligan The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Benjamin Booker The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • George Ade The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Jean Paul The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Billy Tauzin The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Anthony Burgess The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Agatha Christie The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Betty Williams The voice of women, the voice of those most closely involved in bringing forth new life, has not always been listened to when it pleaded and implored against the waste of life in war after war.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Charles Dickens The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bethany McLean The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Pearl S. Buck The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Bobby McFerrin Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Mary Stewart There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
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  • A. Waugh There are few more melancholy spectacles than the litter of a room after the last guest has said 'goodbye'.
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  • Bob Schaffer There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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