Quotes with true-story

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  • Isadora Duncan So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Calista Flockhart So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Macaulay Trevelyan Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
    George Macaulay Trevelyan
    British historian and academic (1876 - 1962)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Louis L'Amour Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.
    Louis L'Amour
     
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  • Bing Gordon Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Albert J. Nock Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Gloria Steinem Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Plutarch Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.''
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Ang Lee Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Alice Munro Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • B. B. King Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Beck Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bobby Hull Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Aldous Huxley Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Beau Bridges Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Byron Katie Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you've attached to something not true for you.
    Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
    Byron Katie
    American speaker and author (1942 - )
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