Quotes with up-their-own-butt

Quotes 3921 till 3940 of 4570.

  • Brad Gilbert Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.
    Brad Gilbert
    American tennis player (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Baz Luhrmann Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Alexander Herzen Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Edmund Burke Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bourke Cockran Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.
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  • Carl Hiaasen Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Bob Barr Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Gordon B. Hinckley Unfortunately, some women want to remake their husbands after their own design.
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    American religious leader and author (1910 - 2008)
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  • Beeban Kidron Unfortunately, teatime in London is when people in Los Angeles arrive in their offices and pick up the phone.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Walter Lippmann Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: ''I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.''
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Martha Gellhorn Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
    Martha Gellhorn
    American novelist, travel writer, and journalist (1908 - 1998)
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  • Charles Dickens Unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Alan Cranston Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.
    Alan Cranston
    American politician and journalist (1914 - 2000)
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  • Nicholson Baker Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
    Nicholson Baker
    American novelist and essayist (1957 - )
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  • Henry Miller Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Marlene Dietrich Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Anita Diamant Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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