Quotes 581 till 600 of 1183.
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My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.
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My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.
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My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
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My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
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My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.
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My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
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My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
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Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Robert H. Schuller
American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015) -
Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
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Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
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No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
Arctic Dreams -
No less than war or statecraft, the history of economics has its heroic ages.
Collected essays (1959)
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