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That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end.
Author:
Terry Zwigoff
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From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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Every choice you make has an end result.
Author:
Zig Ziglar
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If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.
Author:
Zig Ziglar
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Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.
Author:
Florenz Ziegfeld
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The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.
Author:
Zinedine Zidane
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
Author:
Xun Zi
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For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.
Author:
Niklas Zennstrom
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Roger became a part of me, and when he went off the deep end and became a mad snake, I felt sorry for him.
Author:
Michael Zaslow
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About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It's in the manufacturing stages right now, and there are a lot of orders that we just got for it.
Author:
Dweezil Zappa
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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
Author:
Fareed Zakaria
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
Author:
Viktor Yushchenko
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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.
Author:
Kenko Yoshida
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At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see if we're able to live among the living, walk among the living.'
Author:
Dwight Yoakam
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We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
Author:
A. Yehoshua
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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
Author:
William Yeats
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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
Author:
William Yeats
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
Author:
William Yeats
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Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
Author:
Chuck Yeager
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We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
Author:
John Wycliffe
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That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
Author:
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.
Author:
Steven Wright
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A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
Author:
Orville Wright
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
Author:
Orville Wright
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My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.
Author:
Ian Wright
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For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
Author:
Fay Wray
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In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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No, we'll never get back together. We'll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she'll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she's on. Because she's doing something very original.
Author:
John Wozniak
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It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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At the end of 1964, wholesale prices had been relatively stable for some years.
Author:
Leonard Woodcock
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When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.
Author:
Roy Wood
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It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.
Author:
Diane Wood
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.
Author:
Dick Wolf
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
Author:
P. Wodehouse
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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
Author:
John Winthrop
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The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.
Author:
Alex Winter
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Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.
Author:
Alex Winter
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Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
Author:
Owen Wilson
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If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me.
Author:
Kevin Williamson
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The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
Author:
Walter Williams
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As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it.
Author:
Montel Williams
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.
Author:
Mary Williams
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Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.
Author:
Mary Williams
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If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.
Author:
George Williams
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For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
Author:
Andrew Wiles
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Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.
Author:
Stuart Wilde
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.
Author:
Olivia Wilde
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The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.
Author:
Simon Wiesenthal
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For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play.
Author:
Sue Wicks
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For me, being a starter doesn't matter. Of course, I'd like to be in at the end of the game, to be a big part of the team, and to play as many minutes as I can play. But starting and coming off the bench are two different challenges.
Author:
Sue Wicks
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When I come off the bench, I'm looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also, at the end of the game, I have the experience to go out there and help us win.
Author:
Sue Wicks
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Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.
Author:
Edward Whymper
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It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.
Author:
Meg Whitman
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That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.
Author:
Margaret Whiting
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
Author:
Theodore White
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
Author:
Forest Whitaker
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The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.
Author:
Joss Whedon
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When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
Author:
Richard Whately
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The darkroom is just the means to an end.
Author:
Kim Weston
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In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
Author:
William Westmoreland
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By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?
Author:
William Westmoreland
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Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.
Author:
Timothy West
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What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave.
Author:
Shane West
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To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.
Author:
Shane West
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He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.
Author:
Shane West
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I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides.
Author:
Shane West
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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
Author:
H. Wells
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
Author:
H. Wells
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
Author:
H. Wells
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The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.
Author:
Julius Wellhausen
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You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Author:
Len Wein
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I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.
Author:
Sanford Weill
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I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.
Author:
Gene Ween
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Wisdom begins at the end.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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You always wonder if you can make plays at the end.
Author:
Bruce Weber
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In Evita I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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I mean, I think I just it added to my excitement to playing today, and just going out there and doing the best I could, and no matter what happened, the end of the day was going to be a good end.
Author:
Karrie Webb
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
Author:
Booker Washington
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It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.
Author:
Josiah Warren
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You do become very close like a family but because you see each other for such an intense period of time on the set everyday. You really don't end up socializing that much.
Author:
Sela Ward
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If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.
Author:
Rob Walton
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All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
Author:
Malcolm Wallop
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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
Author:
Malcolm Wallop
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I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.
Author:
Eli Wallach
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I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.
Author:
Eli Wallach
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I went to these mixers, you know, where you're supposed to meet people. And sure enough, some guy asked me for my phone number. but at the end of the evening he gave it back.
Author:
Marcia Wallace
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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
Author:
David Wallace
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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Author:
Alice Walker
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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Author:
Denis Waitley
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At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.
Author:
Terry Waite
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On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
Author:
Arthur Waite
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Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice.
Author:
Donnie Wahlberg
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In the end I'm the only one who knows me.
Author:
Donnie Wahlberg
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A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.
Author:
Rick Wagoner
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Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
Author:
Peter Vries
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
Author:
Voltaire
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
Author:
A. Vogt
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
Author:
A. Vogt
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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
Author:
David Viscott
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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Author:
Judith Viorst
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Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
Author:
Joan Vinge
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It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.
Author:
Fay Vincent
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There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.
Author:
Henry Villard
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Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.
Author:
Henry Villard
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Author:
Pancho Villa
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The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
Author:
Alfred Vigny
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The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
Author:
William Vickrey
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I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
Author:
Paul Verlaine
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In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
Author:
Suzanne Vega
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I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.
Author:
James Vega
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Well, because I'm naturally a tomboy, when I have sleepovers with girls, they end up going home and crying.
Author:
Alexa Vega
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I don't think it's by any means an end to my career.
Author:
Mario Vazquez
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Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.
Author:
Stevie Vaughan
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Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.
Author:
Jim Valvano
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We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.
Author:
Eamon Valera
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God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.
Author:
Eamon Valera
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We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.
Author:
Atal Vajpayee
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Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.
Author:
Leon Uris
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I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.
Author:
Karl Urban
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It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
Author:
Karl Urban
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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
Author:
John Updike
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The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
Author:
Anne Tyler
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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Author:
Mark Twain
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If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
Author:
Mark Twain
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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
Author:
Alan Turing
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In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
Author:
Ivan Turgenev
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In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
Author:
Donald Trump
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In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.
Author:
Rachel True
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Author:
Leon Trotsky
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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
Author:
Lionel Trilling
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I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.
Author:
Lee Trevino
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The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.
Author:
Polly Toynbee
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I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me.
Author:
Charles Townshend
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In order to be discipled by others a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when it doesn't fully comprehend or see the end result.
Author:
Ed Townsend
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Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.
Author:
Linus Torvalds
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We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.
Author:
Evangelista Torricelli
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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She's not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around.
Author:
Charlene Tilton
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Author:
Uma Thurman
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
Author:
James Thurber
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The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
Author:
James Thurber
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If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.
Author:
John Thompson
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In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
Author:
Emma Thompson
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To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
Author:
Dorothy Thompson
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There is no more final end than death.
Author:
John Thaw
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I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him.
Author:
John Thaw
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I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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It's definitely intense to walk away from at the end of each season.
Author:
Lee Tergesen
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My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
Author:
Edward Teller
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
Author:
Tecumseh
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Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.
Author:
Roger Taylor
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By the end of it, you never know how it's going to turn out. Hopefully if I pick the right songs and put the right melodies on it and all the collaboration works out. it's a win-win situation.
Author:
Paul Taylor
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I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug.
Author:
Ellen Tauscher
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I think at the end of the day this movie is respecting what we as women go through as we grow up. The experiences, what we deal with, other women, things about images, things that we deal with as women.
Author:
Amber Tamblyn
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A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.
Author:
David Talbot
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
Author:
Tacitus
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
Author:
Wislawa Szymborska
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For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.
Author:
Taylor Swift
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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
Author:
Anne Swetchine
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I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.
Author:
Helen Suzman
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I found it a little bit stressful, because I wasn't used to working with Doctor Who. I got the impression I'd walked into the end of seven years and it was all a bit tense.
Author:
Sarah Sutton
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We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.
Author:
John Surtees
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Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.
Author:
Janet Street-Porter
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Author:
Igor Stravinsky
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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
Author:
Mark Strand
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I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.
Author:
Michael Strahan
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To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
Author:
John Strachan
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Also, if I did join another show, I'd end up burning my bridges to the show I love most.
Author:
Michael Storm
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Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
Author:
Tom Stoppard
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
Author:
Tom Stoppard
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I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.
Author:
Angie Stone
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But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.
Author:
Mink Stole
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Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.
Author:
Sting
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But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.
Author:
Payne Stewart
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
Author:
Parker Stevenson
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
Author:
Fisher Stevens
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When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out there was a little part of my brain that thought 'I am going to do to prove them wrong'. In the end that wouldn't be coming from my heart and doing what was right.
Author:
Craig Stevens
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I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?
Author:
Robert Sternberg
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.
Author:
George Steinbrenner
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I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.
Author:
Jack Steinberger
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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
Author:
Edith Stein
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As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
Author:
Edith Stein
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There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.
Author:
Mary Steenburgen
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I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.
Author:
Peter Steele
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The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.
Author:
Howard Staunton
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That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
Author:
Ringo Starr
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On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.
Author:
Jean Stapleton
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Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'
Author:
Paul Stanley
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My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!
Author:
Terence Stamp
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When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Author:
Madame Stael
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Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.
Author:
Robert Stack
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I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.
Author:
Stephen Sprouse
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It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
Author:
Jerry Springer
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Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country.
Author:
John Spratt
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Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.
Author:
Mickey Spillane
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People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
Author:
Steven Spielberg
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We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.
Author:
Aaron Spelling
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Probably the most difficult things were my favorite parts. The make-up and the big fight sequence at the end of the movie were very difficult but really fun and challenging.
Author:
Scott Speedman
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Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.
Author:
Robert Southey
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You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.
Author:
Terry Southern
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At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.
Author:
Joanna Southcott
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If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.
Author:
Joanna Southcott
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The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.
Author:
Joanna Southcott
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If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
Author:
Sophocles
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Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
Author:
Sophocles
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.
Author:
Brett Somers
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A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.
Author:
Todd Solondz
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In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport.
Author:
Lisa Snowdon
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It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
Author:
Jimmy Smits
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Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.
Author:
Robert Smithson
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Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
Author:
Robert Smithson
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Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
Author:
William Smith
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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
Author:
Sydney Smith
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I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm.
Author:
Susan Smith
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No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.
Author:
Robert Smith
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Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.
Author:
Robert Smith
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Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.
Author:
Margaret Smith
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
Author:
Ed Smith
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I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants.
Author:
Delia Smith
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It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.
Author:
Bessie Smith
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Author:
Adam Smith
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If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
Author:
Alfred Sloan
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There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.
Author:
Christian Slater
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Each guy has his own space. We all end up in one of the other guy's rooms all the time. We always end up together, as far as people getting along.
Author:
Nikki Sixx
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The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.
Author:
Bryan Singer
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The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why the double tax on Social Security must end.
Author:
Rob Simmons
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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.
Author:
Charles Simeon
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I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
Author:
Beverly Sills
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
Author:
Navjot Sidhu
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The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn't finished yet - and which won't be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end of 2003!
Author:
Brian Sibley
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Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
Author:
M. Shyamalan
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And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.
Author:
Don Shula
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I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.
Author:
Michelle Shocked
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The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.
Author:
John Shimkus
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I remember my second game for England - we lost 2-0 to Norway, I was subbed and didn't do myself justice and I thought that was the end of my England career.
Author:
Teddy Sheringham
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A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
Author:
Richard Sheridan
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We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.
Author:
Alan Shepard
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Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.
Author:
Sidney Sheldon
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I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do.
Author:
Duncan Sheik
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The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.
Author:
Cindy Sheehan
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58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.
Author:
Cindy Sheehan
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Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.
Author:
Robert Shea
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
Author:
George Shaw
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Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars.
Author:
Artie Shaw
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By the end of last year we solved a lot of threads, and it's really good for this new way we're taking the show to really have these new people and these new energies, frankly.
Author:
Michael Shanks
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And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment.
Author:
Tony Shalhoub
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.
Author:
Ernest Shackleton
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I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs or bars. But in my free time I go grocery shopping or to the gym, or I talk on the phone.
Author:
Amanda Seyfried
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I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.
Author:
Amanda Seyfried