Quotes 341 till 360 of 1468.
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Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
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Having read my share of tell-alls over the year, including some that were passed off as autobiographies, I mostly feel sad - sometimes for the writer and sometimes for all the people in his way. I hope that the process of writing the tell-all gives some release and closure on what clearly was an unpleasant and unfulfilling life experience.
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He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
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He had scarcely told the lie when his nose, which was already long, grew at once two fingers longer.
Pinocchio (1892) -
He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.
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He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge.
The Sign of the Four (1890) -
He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.
Dracula (1897) Dr. John Seward -
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
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He's five feet two and he's six feet four. He fights with missiles and with spears. He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen. He's been a soldier for a thousand years.
The Universal Soldier (1963) -
Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men,
the Good and the Bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. -
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.
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Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.
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History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
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House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?
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How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
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