Quotes 181 till 200 of 414.
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Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.
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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.
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It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
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It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.
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It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
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It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
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It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
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It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
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It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.
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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason - you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
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Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign.
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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
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Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
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