Quotes 5581 till 5600 of 5987.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
Zora Neale Hurston
American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960) -
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
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When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the ''freedom of the press'' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
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When one shows up in jeans and a T-shirt, I strongly feel that the audience reacts in a very different way than when you show up in a sport coat and a tie.
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When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
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When one teenager dying of cystic fibrosis asked me, 'Why am I different?' I answered, 'Tony, because it makes you beautiful.' He loved my answer because he knew full well how much he had done for the world and that he would be immortal through his love and the fund raising of those who knew him hoping to find a cure for cystic fibrosis.
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When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.
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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.
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When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
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When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
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When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
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When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'
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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
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When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
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When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.
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