Quotes with stand-off

Quotes 681 till 700 of 945.

  • Bono The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Frederick the Great The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Brendan Gill The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.
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  • Ace Frehley The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Bill Simmons The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy?
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure - but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Dale Carnegie The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Henry Miller The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Billy Beane The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Willa Cather The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Bob Beauprez The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Carson Daly The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Caitlin Rose The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • W. H. Auden The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • David Mamet The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Stephen King The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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