Quotes with well-brought-up

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  • Alfred M. Gray I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
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  • Diane Ackerman I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
    Diane Ackerman
    American poet, essayist, savage and naturalist (1948 - )
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  • Anne Tyler I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed. If I continue to make films, in fact, it is because I always want to repair my films. My inner rhythm has changed; I have changed. I have changed my way to film.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
    Source: The life of Buffalo Bill
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Mark Twain I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Burnie Burns I gotta admit, when you've been doing this a long time, going out to the audience and asking for them to help out with crowdfunding, it's a gut check. You never know how that's gonna turn out. Luckily for us, it turned out well.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Aishwarya Rai I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred.
    Aishwarya Rai
    Indian actress and model (1973 - )
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  • Winston Churchill I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Abu Bakr I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Alan Greenspan I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Gates I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
    Source: 1989 speech on the history of the microcomputer industry. [1]
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Robert Benchley I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Walt Whitman I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Bill Hicks I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, What's wrong? Nothing. Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile. Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?
    Source: Relentless
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Philip Roth I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Albert Einstein I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Brooke Burke I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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