Quotes with sure-thing

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  • George Eliot That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bill Walton That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Carol Shields That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? 'Tell me a story.' That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.
    Source: Middlesex (2003) 197
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Bobby Bonilla The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.
    Bobby Bonilla
    American Major League Baseball player (1963 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Odenkirk The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.
    Bob Odenkirk
    American actor, comedian, director, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson The amazing thing about a football team is we can disagree and fight like brothers, but then we come back together. We are able to be open and honest about things that may offend us.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Brenda Lee The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.
    Brenda Lee
    American singer (1944 - )
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  • Aaron Allston The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • Lawrence Durrell The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Marcus Aurelius The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Vaclav Havel The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • St. Edward Aubyn The attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
    St. Edward Aubyn
    English writer and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Adrian Smith The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That's a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden has integrity. I think people appreciate that.
    Adrian Smith
    English guitarist and pianist (1957 - )
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  • John Lennon The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • William Saroyan The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Ben Nicholson The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • B. B. King The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Barbara Windsor The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
    Barbara Windsor
    English actress (1937 - )
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