Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Bob Knight And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Bill Hicks And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Arthur Cayley And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Bruce Springsteen And in the lonely cool before dawn, you hear their engines roaring on.
    But when you get to the porch they're gone
    On the wind, so Mary climb in.
    It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win.
    Source: Born To Run (1975) Thunder Road
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bill Condon And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Aeschylus And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Arthur Bryant And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
    Arthur Bryant
    English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man (1899 - 1985)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Aeschylus And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Ahmed Chalabi And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.
    Ahmed Chalabi
    Iraqi politician (1944 - 2015)
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  • Robert Frost And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Bobby Scott And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • André Malraux And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Bob Geldof And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Walt Whitman And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Robert E. Ornstein And, most important, we have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.
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  • Dave Barry And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Barry Unsworth Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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