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Quotes 401 till 420 of 1633.

  • Lord George Byron I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine - and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so -and now the dross is coming.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Andy Warhol I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Audre Lorde I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Audre Lorde I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Anthony Hopkins I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
    Anthony Hopkins
    Welsh and American actor (1937 - )
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  • Mark Twain I am an old man and have known a great many sorrows, but most of them never happened.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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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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  • Bill Clinton I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
    Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Edgar W. Howe I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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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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  • Alban Berg I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
    Alban Berg
    Austrian composer (1885 - 1935)
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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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