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I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.
Author:
Edward Zwick
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When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again.
Author:
Daphne Zuniga
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The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.
Author:
Daphne Zuniga
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The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.
Author:
David Zucker
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By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.
Author:
Rob Zombie
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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
Author:
Emile Zola
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Author:
Emile Zola
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We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
Author:
Zinedine Zidane
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I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
Author:
Ziyi Zhang
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The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.
Author:
Clara Zetkin
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Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free.
Author:
Niklas Zennstrom
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To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
Author:
Emil Zatopek
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Author:
Frank Zappa
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The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.
Author:
Dweezil Zappa
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Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.
Author:
Dweezil Zappa
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But this was my chance to go to the Super Bowl. Nothing was going to stop me.
Author:
Jack Youngblood
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In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.
Author:
Loretta Young
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
Author:
Edward Young
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I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.
Author:
Don Young
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There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.
Author:
Don Young
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The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
Author:
Arthur Young
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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
Author:
Andrew Young
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Author:
Andrew Young
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A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.
Author:
Susannah York
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I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this.
Author:
Michael York
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The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
Author:
William Yeats
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I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.
Author:
Chelsea Yarbro
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It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.
Author:
William Wyler
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I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.
Author:
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Author:
Frank Wright
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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
Author:
Chauncey Wright
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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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Nothing risque, nothing gained.
Author:
Alexander Woollcott
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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.
Author:
Carter Woodson
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Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.
Author:
George Woodcock
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
Author:
Elijah Wood
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Author:
Elijah Wood
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There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!
Author:
Douglas Wood
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.
Author:
Markus Wolf
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The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.
Author:
Dick Wolf
-
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.
Author:
Norman Wisdom
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Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Author:
Jonathan Winters
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There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.
Author:
Garry Winogrand
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Author:
Walter Winchell
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Nothing recedes like success.
Author:
Walter Winchell
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Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
Author:
Tony Wilson
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Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.
Author:
Joe Wilson
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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
Author:
Harold Wilson
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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Author:
Edmund Wilson
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Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now.
Author:
Debra Wilson
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I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
Author:
William Wills
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The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.
Author:
William Wills
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Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman.
Author:
Kevin Williamson
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There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.
Author:
Shirley Williams
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Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.
Author:
Serena Williams
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The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
Author:
Robin Williams
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Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
Author:
Robin Williams
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An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.
Author:
Roberta Williams
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Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.
Author:
Esther Williams
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I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.
Author:
Andrew Wiles
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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
Author:
Laura Wilder
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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
Author:
Billy Wilder
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An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
Author:
Billy Wilder
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.
Author:
Olivia Wilde
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For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
Author:
Simon Wiesenthal
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Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.
Author:
Roger Wicker
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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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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.
Author:
Christine Whitman
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I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.
Author:
Mary Whitehouse
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A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
Author:
Katherine Whitehorn
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Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?
Author:
George Whitefield
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There's nothing I'm doing these days that I ever thought I was gonna do.
Author:
Meg White
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
Author:
E. White
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
Author:
E. White
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
Author:
E. White
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We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.
Author:
Edward Weston
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Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.
Author:
Donald Westlake
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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Author:
Rebecca West
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
Author:
Mae West
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Any time you've got nothing to do and lots of time to do it come on up.
Author:
Mae West
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A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.
Author:
Tom Wesselmann
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A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
Author:
Ida Wells
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
Author:
H. Wells
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
Author:
H. Wells
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
Author:
H. Wells
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Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Author:
Arthur Wellesley
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Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
Author:
Arthur Wellesley
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
Author:
Fay Weldon
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
Author:
Fay Weldon
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My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.
Author:
James Welch
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Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
Author:
Simone Weil
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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Author:
Simone Weil
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This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
Author:
Weegee
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We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.
Author:
Chris Wedge
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Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
Author:
John Webster
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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity.
Author:
Amy Weber
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I enjoyed entertaining people since I was a little girl. There was nothing better than making people laugh. That, and the need to express myself in a safe environment.
Author:
Amy Weber
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There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.
Author:
Amy Weber
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I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.
Author:
Dennis Weaver
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I knew when I was 6. I just knew it; I didn't care about nothing else. If I didn't make it in this world, I would probably be homeless. I gave myself that little to fall back on.
Author:
Shawn Wayans
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I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.
Author:
Ruby Wax
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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Author:
Alan Watts
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The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Author:
Alan Watts
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Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.
Author:
Mike Watt
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Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Author:
Thomas Watson
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My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.
Author:
Emily Watson
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I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.
Author:
Muddy Waters
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Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
Author:
Ethel Waters
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Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
Author:
George Washington
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Author:
Booker Washington
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If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.
Author:
Rick Warren
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Author:
Earl Warren
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
Author:
Charles Warner
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If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
Author:
Andy Warhol
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I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.
Author:
Burt Ward
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I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
Author:
Patrick Warburton
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Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.
Author:
John Wanamaker
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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
Author:
Izaak Walton
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
Author:
Mika Waltari
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I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
Author:
Francis Walsingham
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There is nothing more dangerous than security.
Author:
Francis Walsingham
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The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.
Author:
James Walsh
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Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
Author:
Bill Walsh
-
I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me.
Author:
Marc Wallice
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But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.
Author:
Eli Wallach
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The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.
Author:
Murray Walker
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All these older kids here, and I'm the only one from a town that's so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you'd run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there.
Author:
Herschel Walker
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Author:
Alice Walker
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Author:
Alice Walker
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
Author:
Alice Walker
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I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.
Author:
Christopher Walken
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There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
Author:
George Wald
-
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.
Author:
George Wald
-
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
Author:
George Wald
-
I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting.
Author:
Rick Wakeman
-
Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
-
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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Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
Author:
Denis Waitley
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The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world.
Author:
Rick Wagoner
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I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.
Author:
Robert Wagner
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Author:
Peter Vries
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
Author:
Peter Vries
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Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
Author:
Diana Vreeland
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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
Author:
Claude Vorilhon
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Author:
Kurt Vonnegut
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A witty saying proves nothing.
Author:
Voltaire
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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Author:
Voltaire
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Author:
Voltaire
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Author:
Voltaire
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The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
Author:
Voltaire
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Author:
Voltaire
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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Author:
Voltaire
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Author:
Voltaire
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We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
Author:
Stephen Vizinczey
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That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
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Swami Vivekananda
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I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.
Author:
Nana Visitor
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To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.
Author:
Bobby Vinton
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To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
Author:
Bobby Vinton
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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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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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I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.
Author:
Bruce Vilanch
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
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Queen Victoria
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Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
Author:
William Vickrey
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The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.
Author:
Ben Vereen
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Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.
Author:
Alan Vega
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Author:
Harry Vardon
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Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.
Author:
Gerald Vann
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There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.
Author:
Ninette Valois
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Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.
Author:
Ville Valo
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Author:
Paul Valery
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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
Author:
Paul Valery
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There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.
Author:
Roger Vadim
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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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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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I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.
Author:
Gabrielle Union
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
Author:
Miguel Unamuno
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The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.
Author:
Liv Ullmann
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Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out.
Author:
Steven Tyler
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As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.
Author:
Steven Tyler
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Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.
Author:
Steven Tyler
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Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.
Author:
Paul Twitchell
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One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.
Author:
Shania Twain
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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.
Author:
Tina Turner
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
Author:
Ted Turner
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
Author:
Ted Turner
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You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.
Author:
Ike Turner
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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Author:
Dale Turner
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I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
Author:
Christy Turlington
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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
Author:
Ivan Turgenev
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Author:
Barbara Tuchman
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
Author:
Barbara Tuchman
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With out passion you dont have energy, with out energy you have nothing.
Author:
Donald Trump
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When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
Author:
Harry Truman
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There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Author:
Harry Truman
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We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
Author:
Pierre Trudeau
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Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.
Author:
Robin Trower
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
Author:
Leon Trotsky
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England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
Author:
Leon Trotsky
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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I have nothing to hide.
Author:
Linda Tripp
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Author:
Calvin Trillin
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
Author:
Obie Trice
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He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.
Author:
Leopold Trepper
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Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.
Author:
Simon Travaglia
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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
Author:
Thomas Traherne
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The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
Author:
Aiden Tozer
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If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
Author:
Peter Townsend
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Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
Author:
Paul Tournier
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Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.
Author:
Dan Totheroh
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I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.
Author:
Linus Torvalds
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I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.
Author:
Guillermo Toro
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I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.
Author:
Peter Tork
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There's nothing wrong with trying to reach out to new fans.
Author:
Carrot Top
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Author:
Lily Tomlin
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Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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There's nothing wrong with shooting for the stars.
Author:
Justin Timberlake
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A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
Author:
John Tillotson
