Quotes with tricks

  • In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
  • There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions.

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  • Charles Caleb Colton Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Voltaire History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • David Copperfield I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Bono It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lorrie Moore Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.
    Net echt (2012) 172
    Lorrie Moore
    American fiction writer (1957 - )
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  • Bret Harte That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinese is peculiar.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • William Cobbett The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Ben Goldacre There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Billy Bennett There's a cockeyed yellow poodle to the north of Conga Pooch;
    There's a little hot cross bun that's turning green;
    There's a double-jointed woman doing tricks in Chu-Chin-Chow,
    And you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
    The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog line 37
    Billy Bennett
    British comedian
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  • Benjamin Franklin Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Joseph Conrad Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Brad Bird Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Calista Flockhart Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Ben Shahn When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • George Eliot When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bret Harte Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
    The Heathen Chinee (1870)
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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