Quotes with two-hundred-foot

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  • Ray Bradbury You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Billie Holiday You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Bryan Robson You can't let players do what they wish and be professional. That's a fact. As for the team, Boro had two internationals when I got there in 1995. Now they have more than 15. And they didn't cost the fortune some suggest.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Milan Kundera You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
    Identiteit (1997)
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Publilius Syrus You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Daniel Day Lewis You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film, you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.
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  • Stephen Fry You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.
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  • Larry Mcmurtry You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
    Larry Mcmurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Gordie Howe You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
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  • Buck Owens You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Carlo Rubbia You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • W. H. Auden You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Beatrice Wood You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Bruce Johnston You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Birch Bayh You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • C. S. Lewis You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.' 'Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 59
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Toni Morrison You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Bjorn Borg You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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