Quotes with well-spent

Quotes 381 till 400 of 1460.

  • Eleanor Roosevelt I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Marcel Marceau I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
    Marcel Marceau
    French artist (1923 - 2007)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

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    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bill Gates I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
    1989 speech on the history of the microcomputer industry. [1]
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Robert Benchley I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Walt Whitman I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Bill Hicks I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, What's wrong? Nothing. Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile. Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?
    Relentless
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Philip Roth I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Brooke Burke I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Donald Trump I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Antonin Artaud I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Don Marquis I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • W. C. Fields I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • John Malkovich I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
    John Malkovich
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Arthur Hailey I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • Burt Rutan I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Abraham Pais I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • John McCain I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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