Quotes with stand-off

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  • Bill Viola Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Alan Cohen Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson Ethel Waters, the flaming tower of dusky regality, who knows how to make a song stand on tiptoe.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Billy Graham Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Barbara Jordan Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.
    Source: Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Barbara Boxer Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Carter Burwell Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Gerald R. Ford Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
    Gerald R. Ford
    American politician and 38th President of the United States (1913 - 2006)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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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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  • Bobby Flay Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It's very simple. You should think of a grill as a burner - it just happens to have grates. You shouldn't be intimidated by it.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • David Cronenberg Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
    David Cronenberg
    Canadian movie maker (1943 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Al Jourgensen Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.
    Al Jourgensen
    Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician (1958 - )
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  • Paul Klee Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Donald Trump Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Shana Alexander Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.
    Shana Alexander
    American journalist (1925 - 2005)
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  • Brandon Sanderson Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?'
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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