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Quotes 2121 till 2140 of 2349.

  • James Thurber When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Billy Eckstine When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Walter Lippmann When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Alan Alda When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Caroll Spinney When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Bhagavad Gita When he has no lust, no hatred,
    A man walks safely among the things of lust and hatred
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • François Truffaut When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
    François Truffaut
    French filmmaker (1932 - 1984)
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  • Bob Harper When I came out, when I was 17 years old, it was one of those things where I realized that there was going to be so many obstacles, but being gay doesn't mean being weak.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Bubba Watson When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I cried. All these things make me cry.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Richard Milhous Nixon When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
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  • Bob Parsons When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.
    Bob Parsons
    American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billy Collins When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bob Harper When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Barkhad Abdi When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.
    Barkhad Abdi
    Somali–American actor and director (1985 - )
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  • Larry Bird When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
    Larry Bird
    American basketbal player and coach (1956 - )
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