Quotes with two-penny

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  • Ace Frehley That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Bill Clinton The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Barry Diller The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Lord George Byron The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Alain de Botton The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • William Faulkner The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Bruno Dumont The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Sebastian Faulks The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
    Engleby (2007)
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on the surface.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bobby Bowden The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Prince Philip The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons.
    Prince Philip
    British prince, husband of Queen Elizabeth II (1921 - 2021)
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  • Paul Auster The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.
    (2005)
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Jean Rostand The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Raymond Chandler The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Anna Quindlen The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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