Quotes 201 till 220 of 1813.
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Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.
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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
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Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.
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Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.
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Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
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Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
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Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
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Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
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Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.
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Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well; and requires no less practice.
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Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
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Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.
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