Quotes with two-parent

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  • Vince Lombardi Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things-blocking and tackling.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • D'Onofrio Vincent Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. [On his acting techniques]
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  • Barry Hannah Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Brenda Ueland Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Cal Thomas Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Stephen King Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Banneker Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Oscar Wilde Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
    Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Walters Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Henry James Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Charles H. Parkhurst Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
    Charles H. Parkhurst
    American clergyman and social reformer (1842 - 1933)
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  • Ben Jonson Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Bruce Lee Taoist philosophy... is essentially monistic.... Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.
    Source: Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Niels Bohr Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Art Buchwald Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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