Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Cass Sunstein Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Ann Coulter Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Paul Gauguin Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Denis Waitley Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Jonathan Raban Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
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  • Edward Hoagland Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bainbridge Colby Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Elizabeth Janeway Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
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  • Carol Loomis Limited partnerships are required to amend their filings whenever important changes, such as the admission of new partners, take place.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Denis Waitley Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Billy Collins Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Milan Kundera Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
    Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • Oriana Fallaci Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
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  • W. H. Auden Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Ezra Pound Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Paul De Man Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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