Quotes 101 till 120 of 1813.
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A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.
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A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
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A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
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A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
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A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.
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