Quotes 221 till 240 of 3136.
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Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
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Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
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Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.
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Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.
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Admiration spoils all from infancy. Ah! How well said! Ah! How well done! How well-behaved he is! etc.
Pensees (1669) -
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
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Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.
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After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
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After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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After being away from it for so long, it's really nice to go out and have 10- or 15,000 people show up and enjoy it. It leaves you with a very good feeling.
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After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
Crash (1973) -
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
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