Quotes with sure-thing

Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 2265.

  • Benjamin Watson The captain thing was really an honor, and it was really flattering for me. It was really something that I didn't expect, and I would say that was the highlight of my career so far, being elected captain by my peers.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Beck The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Billy Boyd The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Gertrude Stein The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Britney Spears The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bridgit Mendler The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Brandon Cruz The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work.
    Brandon Cruz
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bruce Jackson The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Alan Dershowitz The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Brene Brown The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Antonio Perez The digital business is a fantastic business to be in. The only thing you have to do is build a cost structure for a declining business, which is different from the structure for a growing business.
    Antonio Perez
    Spanish statesman, secretary King Phillip II (1540 - 1611)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Cary Fowler The drive behind what I do is really to make sure that people don't go to bed hungry. It's not just that I have a love of diversity, it's the importance of the uses of that diversity.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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