Quotes 2701 till 2720 of 3716.
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The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
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The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
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The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process.
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The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
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The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.
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The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.
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The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.
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The freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
From George Washington to Officers of the Army, 15-03-1783 -
The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'
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The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
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The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big possibilities. Like the song says, ''We've just begun.''
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The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.
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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?
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