Quotes 81 till 100 of 222.
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I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
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I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
Source: Twitter, 31-12-2015 -
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, What happened next?
Source: A Personal History (1983) p. 301 -
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
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I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
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I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.
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I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
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If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
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If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.
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If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
Source: The First World War (1963) p. 165 -
In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
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In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
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