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Quotes 1081 till 1100 of 1807.

  • Charles F. Kettering People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Carine Roitfeld People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Bob Knight People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Henry Giles People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Bria Skonberg People hear traditional jazz and think it's stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened up. With New Orleans and old-time grooves, there's no limit in what can be done with that. I want to break the stereotype of what traditional jazz is.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Bill Irwin People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Martha Gellhorn People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.
    Martha Gellhorn
    American novelist, travel writer, and journalist (1908 - 1998)
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  • Blake Mycoskie People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Bill Gates People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Billy Corgan People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Carolyn Chute People who work in factories or in the woods or maybe a dairy farm - for years, I've been fascinated with people like that. No pretensions. They just live their lives. I found them beautiful. They were all I seemed to be interested in writing about.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Philip Larkin Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Andrew Wiles Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Olive Schreiner Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Alan Cohen Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Eugene Wigner Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve
    Eugene Wigner
     
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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