Quotes with up-their-own-butt

Quotes 1261 till 1280 of 4570.

  • Arthur Cohn I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.
    Arthur Cohn
    American film producer (1927 - )
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  • William Shakespeare I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist and author (1969 - )
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  • Ezra Pound I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Adam Michnik I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Javan I didn't ask for it to be over. But then again I didn't ask for it to begin. For that's the way it is with life, as some of the most beautiful days come completely by chance. But even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunset
    Javan
     
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  • Oscar Wilde I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Sterling I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Paine I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Galileo Galilei I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
    Galileo Galilei
    Italian physicist (1564 - 1642)
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  • Trinidad Hunt I do not have what I own, nor do I have what I do. I only have what I am.
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  • Al Oerter I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.
    Al Oerter
    American athlete (1936 - 2007)
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  • The Creator Tyler I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.
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  • Anne Ford I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.
    Anne Ford
    English musician and singer (1737 - 1824)
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  • David Ogilvy I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Loretta Lynn I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs. But for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.
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  • Antonio Tabucchi I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Conrad I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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