Quotes 301 till 320 of 700.
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It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues.
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It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.
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It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me.
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It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
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Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.
Source: Cyteen (1988) -
Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.
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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
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Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.
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Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.
Source: Public papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton -
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
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Literature exists inside the language. It’s made of words. It’s not made of ideas and it’s not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It’s made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words. So, literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
Source: The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016 -
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
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Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
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Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
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Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
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