Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Oliver Goldsmith I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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  • Thomas Paine I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Elie Wiesel I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Anthony Holden I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Arthur Laffer I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Ann Coulter I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Henry Rollins I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.
    Henry Rollins
    American musician, actor and writer (1961 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Epicurus I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Billie Holiday I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Buzz Osborne I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • William Morris I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Asa Gray I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Bruce Johnston I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated - in their original form - pop group.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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