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Quotes 6301 till 6320 of 10591.

  • Alice Walker People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh People don't want to be understood, I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left.
    Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Brooks Atkinson People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Cass McCombs People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos - they just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
    Cass McCombs
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Adrian Edmondson People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Carlos Gershenson People fail to achieve goals not because of lack of abilities, but because of lack of determination. (any ability can be learned).
    Chorninky Notes
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Ezra Pound People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Carly Fiorina People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Maria Mitchell People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
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  • Antonia Fraser People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Carol Burnett People invite me to dinner not because I cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from Windex. Yes, I do windows.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Carol Moseley Braun People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Anna Held People look at me and look, but I do not care.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Annie Dillard People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • David Mamet People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Anthony de Mello People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Martin Luther People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
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  • A. P. Herbert People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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