Quotes with would-be

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  • Barry Levinson First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Epictetus First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Bruce Jackson First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Bethany McLean Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Fontenelle... said, you remember, to the damsel of eighteen, 'Ah, Madam, would that I were eighty once more.
    Source: Letter to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1 April 1921
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Cate Blanchett For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • J.W. Rochester For all men would be cowards if they durst.
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  • Bob Barr For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Bill McCartney For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.
    Bill McCartney
    American football player and coach (1940 - )
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  • Anne Tyler For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Frederick W. Faber For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.
    Frederick W. Faber
    English hymn writer and theologian (1814 - 1863)
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  • Bob Beauprez For those of us who originally disagreed with ObamaCare and now disagree with the majority opinion of the SCOTUS, the challenge remains the same as it would have been had the Court ruled otherwise. We need to elect Mitt Romney and House and Senate majorities that will repeal ObamaCare and replace it with free-market, pro-liberty solutions.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Brooke Burke Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Carson Kressley Friends think your life is so glamorous, and it is. But there are times when, instead of going to a glamorous party, I would rather just come home from work, pop in a DVD and eat some microwave popcorn with a cutie on the sofa.
    Carson Kressley
    American television personality, actor, and designer (1969 - )
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  • Katharine Whitehorn From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
    Katharine Whitehorn
    British journalist, writer, and columnist (1928 - 2021)
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  • Booker T. Washington From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
    Source: Up From Slavery (1901) Ch. I: A Slave Among Slaves
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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