Quotes 561 till 580 of 666.
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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.
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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
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Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective.
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
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Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.
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Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family.
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Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace.
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War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ''realistically;'' that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.
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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him, if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.
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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.
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