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Quotes 161 till 180 of 1813.

  • Alan Alda Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Ambition can creep as well as soar.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bill Dedman American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • J. Bartlett Brebner Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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  • Anthony Burgess Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Bobby Flay An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Harry Houdini An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Barry McGuire And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Brandon Routh And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • Al Franken And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Albert Maltz And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • John Donne And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Alice Walker And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bobby Scott And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Bush And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Buddy Rich And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Carlos Ghosn Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Carol Bartz Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
    American journalist
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