Quotes with spent

Quotes 61 till 80 of 131.

  • Henry Louis Mencken It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Barbara Bush It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Bill Vaughan It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Barack Obama It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Charlotte Brontë Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Antony Sher Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.
    Antony Sher
    British actor (1949 - )
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  • George Eliot Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Herbert Spencer Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Calvin Trillin Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
    Source: Alices Law of Compensatory Cash Flow in Alice, Lets Eat (1978)
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Burton Cummings Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Antony Sher Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.
    Antony Sher
    British actor (1949 - )
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  • Carre Otis Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.
    Carre Otis
    American model and actress (1968 - )
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  • Anita Diamant My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Parcells My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Ben Elliot My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Bill Walton My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Ben Elliot My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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