Quotes with two-states

Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 1386.

  • Barbra Streisand What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Bill Nye What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here still, is because of our ability to innovate.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Cab Calloway What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Thomas Jefferson What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Carlos Fuentes What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Cass Sunstein What unites Sanders, McCarthy, McGovern and Reagan is the unmistakable clarity of their moral convictions, their tendency to outrage, and their insistence that the United States needs to embark on a whole new path.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Campbell Scott What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.
    Campbell Scott
    American actor, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bruce Babbitt What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Joan Didion What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.
    Faceboek (2013)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Gail Hamilton Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.
    Gail Hamilton
    American writer (1833 - 1896)
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  • William James Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bill Engvall When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but they didn't know what to do with us. They had 'Reba,' which was number one, and we were number two, and they didn't want to be known as the hayseed network, so they kind of dropped us, even though we were pulling great numbers.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Carlos Santana When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Brian P. Cleary When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Bono When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love (a special instance of love at first sight).
    Aion (1951)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Mae West When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Bob Barr When conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of executive branch actions can reveal serious shortcomings by government officials and help prevent recurrence; the 'Waco hearings,' conducted over a two-week period in 1995, stand as an example of such an undertaking.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Marc Chagall When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.
    Marc Chagall
    Russian-French artist and painter (1887 - 1985)
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