Quotes with thing-they

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  • John Donne I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • William Shakespeare I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alonzo Church I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • Beck I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
    Rolling Stone magazine, 1996
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Robin Williams I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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  • Walter Winchell I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
    Walter Winchell
    American newspaper and radio commentator (1897 - 1972)
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  • Donald Trump I want a strong border. I do want a wall. Walls do work, you just have to speak to the folks in Israel. Walls work if they're properly constructed. I know how to build, believe me, I know how to build.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Allen Ginsberg I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Malcolm X I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Orson Welles I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery I want to impose on everyone that the bad times are over, they are finished! Our mandate from the Prime Minister is to destroy the Axis forces in North Africa...It can be done, and it will be done!
    Said to his troops in North Africa, promising the swift defeat of Rommel
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • George Foreman I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.
    George Foreman
    American professional boxer (1949 - )
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  • Anna Held I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Bruce Willis I wanted to sign up and fight with you guys, but they told me I was too old.
    Bruce Willis during a visit to the 101st Airborne Division in northern Iraq, September 25, 2003. [2]
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar I was a true wrestler. I was a Division I national champion. I came into the business wanting one thing and one thing only, and that was to be the champion, and I wasn't going to let anybody stand in my way. I think there was one guy that had a problem with that, and that was Undertaker.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Alonzo Church I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • Margaret Mead I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Alice Munro I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,' or 'think you were smart.'
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • J. K. Rowling I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
    J. K. Rowling
    British novelist, screenwriter, and producer (1965 - )
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