Quotes with thing—but

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  • Alberto Giacometti Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Alexander Theroux Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
    Alexander Theroux
    American novelist and poet
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  • Ezra Pound As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bernhard Schlink As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Michel de Certeau As a first approximation, I define ''belief'' not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • Josh Billings As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Carl Hagelin As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Ken Blanchard As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.
    Ken Blanchard
    American writer
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  • Britney Spears As a mom, you have all these situations you go through, and you're like, 'What is going on? Is this normal? Is this a phase? Or what is this?' and then you feel silly for asking questions because you think, 'I'm a mom - I'm supposed to know these things,' but you don't.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bono As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bridget Riley As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
    Bridget Riley: dialogues on art
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Albert Ellis As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Bryan Batt As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Adam Sedgwick As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
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  • B. Kevin Turner As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Carol Leifer As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.
    Carol Leifer
    American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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  • Burton Richter As accelerators reach higher and higher energies, we may need a new Standard Model, or, at least, today's may need to be modified, but that's the way science operates.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • B. D. Wong As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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