Quotes with well-descended

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  • Alexander the Great I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Edna Ferber I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
    Edna Ferber
    American writer (1885 - 1968)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Jim Valvano I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
    Jim Valvano
    American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster (1946 - 1993)
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  • Les Brown I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Bill Hicks I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. And I say no, it's not, Dad. Well, I believe that it is. Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth.
    Filling Up the Hump
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bill Frist I can play hardball as well as anybody. That's what I did, cut people's hearts out.
    New York Times, 2 February 2005
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Robert Benchley I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette, she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
    Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (2001) Ch. 1: Serving in Florida (p. 31)
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Nathanael Emmons I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
    Nathanael Emmons
    American Congregational minister and theologian (1745 - 1840)
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  • Bruce Forsyth I do lead a careful diet, I don't overeat, I have fruit and vegetables every day and I drink a lot of water. And my darling wife keeps me so young it is ridiculous. Being with her is an inspiration as well.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all.
    Definitions - Scholium
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Angela Merkel I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Ogden Nash I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Woody Allen I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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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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