Quotes 541 till 560 of 1326.
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It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
Wolkenatlas (2008) 365 -
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
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Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.
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Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
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Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
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Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
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Just by the nature of making the choice to be true to who I am, I'm political. Sometimes that's all you need to do: Show up and be black, gay and Christian in America and actually say it out loud. And refuse to let anything or anybody take that away from you.
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Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or lean all round, more on the false than on the true.
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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
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Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
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Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.
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Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.
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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
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