Quotes 481 till 500 of 666.
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
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The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of making decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to make.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
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The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.
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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
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The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
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The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?
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The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy.
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The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
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The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
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The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.
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The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
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