Quotes with would-be

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  • Peggy Noonan Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Bo Bennett Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Carlos Fuentes Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Anne Brontë Revenge! No — what good would that do? — it would make him no better, and me no happier.
    Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XXXVII
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Ben Harper Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Allan Bloom Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Frederick the Great Rogues, would you live forever?
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Ben Shahn Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Alan Cohen Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Anthea Turner Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.
    Anthea Turner
    English television presenter (1960 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Bob Simon Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.
    Bob Simon
     
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  • Jonathan Katz Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.
    Jonathan Katz
    American actor (1946 - )
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  • Andy Hertzfeld Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Bill Gates Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Robert Collier See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • John Dryden Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Barry Pepper Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
    Barry Pepper
    Canadian-American actor (1950 - )
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