Quotes with tragedy-in-the-making

Quotes 141 till 160 of 666.

  • John Mortimer Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • Gloria Steinem Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Anne Dudley Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Helen Rowland Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Barack Obama Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
    Power in Words: The Stories Behind Barack Obamas Speeches, from the State House to the White House
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Bill Shankly Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Al Goldstein For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Bjarke Ingels For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Barry McGee For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • Barry Eichengreen For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Ban Ki-moon Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bobby Flay Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Bette Davis Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
    Id love to kiss you-- : conversations with Bette Davis
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Ben Parr Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Bill Shuster Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • I Ching Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Calvin Harris Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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