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We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.
Author:
David Zucker
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Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian.
Author:
David Zucker
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It was like fighting with the MPAA... to me it was like this is an R easy... but it was NC 17 over and over and even with this cut they were like, you are right on the edge buddy, one more thing and it's NC-17.
Author:
Rob Zombie
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The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.
Author:
John Zimmerman
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Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
Author:
Xun Zi
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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
Author:
Kong Zi
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I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
Author:
Harry Zell
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Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out.
Author:
Abraham Zapruder
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If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
Author:
Moon Zappa
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But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.
Author:
Dweezil Zappa
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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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Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.
Author:
Dweezil Zappa
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And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.
Author:
Steve Yzerman
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Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.
Author:
Muhammad Yunus
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My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.
Author:
James Young
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True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Author:
Brigham Young
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I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law.
Author:
Tina Yothers
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Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment.
Author:
Tina Yothers
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My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.
Author:
Tina Yothers
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I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
Author:
Thom Yorke
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My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.
Author:
Dick York
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We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure.
Author:
Wu Yi
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
Author:
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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It's extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
Author:
William Yeats
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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
Author:
William Yeats
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You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.
Author:
Martin Yan
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I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.
Author:
Early Wynn
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If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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Why stick your neck out if you don't have to? If you're right nobody will remember and if you're wrong people will ask a lot of questions.
Author:
David Wu
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Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
Author:
Steven Wright
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We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
Author:
Jeremiah Wright
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
Author:
Francis Wright
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Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
Author:
Francis Wright
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
Author:
Fay Wray
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Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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I said all along I would not sell my story. I don't think it would be right.
Author:
Louise Woodward
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The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.
Author:
Judy Woodruff
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
Author:
John Wooden
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I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.
Author:
George Woodcock
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I just had a full body cleanse. And am eating right and exercising a lot.
Author:
Alfre Woodard
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I threw so hard I thought my arm would fly right off my body.
Author:
Smokey Wood
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Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.
Author:
Roy Wood
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I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.
Author:
Ron Wood
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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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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I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.
Author:
Douglas Wood
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It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.
Author:
Lee Womack
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The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.
Author:
Gene Wolfe
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The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany.
Author:
Markus Wolf
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If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.
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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But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.
Author:
Reese Witherspoon
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That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.
Author:
Reese Witherspoon
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I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.
Author:
Johnny Winter
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The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.
Author:
Michael Winslow
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Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.
Author:
Henry Winkler
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Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.
Author:
Henry Winkler
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.
Author:
Terri Windling
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Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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I was right then, I'm right now. I think time has proven me right.
Author:
Pete Wilson
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
Author:
E. Wilson
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
Author:
E. Wilson
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My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.
Author:
Dennis Wilson
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If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.
Author:
Debra Wilson
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I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.
Author:
Debra Wilson
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Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.
Author:
Ann Wilson
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We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.
Author:
William Wills
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No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.
Author:
Ellen Willis
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They look right. And you move left.
Author:
Bruce Willis
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May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.
Author:
Kevin Williamson
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Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.
Author:
Venus Williams
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I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.
Author:
Robin Williams
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The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.
Author:
Robin Williams
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What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.
Author:
Robin Williams
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
Author:
Ralph Williams
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I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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Treatment is the way to go. It can work if you have the right model.
Author:
Joe Williams
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
Author:
George Will
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As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won't have any problems.
Author:
Dominique Wilkins
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I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.
Author:
William Wiley
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I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.
Author:
Andrew Wiles
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Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
Author:
Andrew Wiles
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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.
Author:
Gene Wilder
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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
Author:
Billy Wilder
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
Author:
William Wilberforce
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If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it.
Author:
Michelle Wie
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I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.
Author:
Katharine Whitehorn
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.
Author:
Ryan White
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I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.
Author:
Ron White
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Author:
E. White
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The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
Author:
Byron White
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It's almost scary how good things are right now. I've been engaged now for about a year, and it's the first time anything like that has happened to me.
Author:
Bryan White
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I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.
Author:
Joss Whedon
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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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I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.
Author:
Vivienne Westwood
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Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.
Author:
Lee Westwood
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The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.
Author:
Lynn Westmoreland
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Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.
Author:
Paul Westerberg
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I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.
Author:
Paul Westerberg
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I don't believe in right-angled turning points.
Author:
Timothy West
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Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2.
Author:
Shane West
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As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.
Author:
Randy West
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
Author:
Mae West
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Author:
Mae West
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Author:
Mae West
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You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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I'm feeling pretty good right now, but I hope we can just win the whole thing and I can run off into the sunset and say good-bye.
Author:
David Wells
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A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Author:
Carolyn Wells
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I just had an idea that went right over my head.
Author:
Lawrence Welk
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Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now.
Author:
Lawrence Welk
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Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
Author:
William Weld
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Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.
Author:
William Weld
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
Author:
Jack Welch
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
Author:
Jack Welch
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I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.
Author:
Brian Welch
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Give it a kick at the right place and it'll work.
Author:
Ezer Weizman
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Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.
Author:
Peter Weir
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I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
Author:
Bob Weir
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When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.
Author:
Len Wein
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Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
Author:
Len Wein
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If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.
Author:
Sanford Weill
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My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.
Author:
Sanford Weill
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It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source.
Author:
Andrew Weil
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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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A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.
Author:
Gene Ween
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Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
Author:
John Webster
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The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.
Author:
Amy Weber
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I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.
Author:
Karrie Webb
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
Author:
Karrie Webb
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Golf is my boyfriend right now.
Author:
Karrie Webb
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
Author:
Karrie Webb
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
Author:
Warren Weaver
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My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
Author:
Earl Weaver
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The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.
Author:
Paul Watzlawick
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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
Author:
J. Watts
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Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
Author:
J. Watts
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I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.
Author:
Charlie Watts
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I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.
Author:
Charlie Watts
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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Author:
Alan Watts
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.
Author:
Mike Watt
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I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.
Author:
Tom Watson
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It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.
Author:
Emily Watson
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Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it.
Author:
Jody Watley
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The time was ripe for Flower. The vibe was right.
Author:
Jody Watley
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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
Author:
Maxine Waters
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The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
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George Washington
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My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
Author:
Earl Warren
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I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
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Andy Warhol
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For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.
Author:
Sela Ward
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In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative or erotically deprived.
Author:
Burt Ward
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I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
Author:
Patrick Warburton
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If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.
Author:
Joseph Wambaugh
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First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract.
Author:
Rob Walton
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Some men are all right in their place if they only knew the right places.
Author:
Raoul Walsh
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The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'
Author:
Neale Walsch
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The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?
Author:
Malcolm Wallop
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
Author:
Malcolm Wallop
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The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories.
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Jim Wallis
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I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
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Marcia Wallace
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I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.
Author:
Lila Wallace
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Author:
Irving Wallace
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There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.
Author:
Larry Wall
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The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on that side. We can't waver because these are our enemies right now. I'm sorry. I'm gonna say it out loud. The Arabs, that's right, are our enemies. That's right.
Author:
Jimmie Walker
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Author:
Alice Walker
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As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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Right now I'm trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She's very, very much alive for us.
Author:
Robert Wagner
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Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
Author:
Abdoulaye Wade
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A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.
Author:
Sol Wachtler
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In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace. called a mall, we should not abridge that right.
Author:
Sol Wachtler
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Author:
Kurt Vonnegut
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Author:
Voltaire
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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Author:
Voltaire
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Author:
Voltaire
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An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
Author:
Don Vliet
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Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?
Author:
Stephen Vizinczey
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I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.
Author:
Renee Vivien
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We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.
Author:
Tony Visconti
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If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
Author:
Virgil
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We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.
Author:
Judith Viorst
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All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
Author:
Bobby Vinton
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God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.
Author:
Alexandre Vinet
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We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.
Author:
Troy Vincent
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Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back.
Author:
Dominique Villepin
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I have to do what's right.
Author:
Herve Villechaize
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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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Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.
Author:
Jacques Verges
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When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.
Author:
Jesse Ventura
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There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.
Author:
Jesse Ventura
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I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.
Author:
Ann Veneman
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We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do.
Author:
Ann Veneman
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No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia.
Author:
Alvaro Velez
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My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?
Author:
Alan Vega
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That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.
Author:
Alan Vega
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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Vince Vaughn
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What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.
Author:
Matthew Vaughn
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I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.
Author:
Matthew Vaughn
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Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.
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Stevie Vaughan
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After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.
Author:
Stevie Vaughan
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The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine's never worked right; it peaks out at 80.
Author:
Stevie Vaughan
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When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.
Author:
Sarah Vaughan
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I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now.
Author:
Jhonen Vasquez
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I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.
Author:
Mordechai Vanunu
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
Author:
Jack Vance
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People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.
Author:
Jim Valvano
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I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.
Author:
Ville Valo
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If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.
Author:
Kathy Valentine
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I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.
Author:
Keith Urban
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
Author:
John Updike
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Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
Author:
John Updike
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A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
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John Updike
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If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.
Author:
Al Unser
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I'm not worried. I'm just so grateful to be in the position that I'm in. I'm just going with the flow right now, and I think my album will come together quite nicely because I think everybody is on the same page.
Author:
Carrie Underwood
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Right afterwards there was a whole, whole lot of press to do, so the week after, all day, every day, was press so I didn't really get a chance to celebrate.
Author:
Carrie Underwood
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It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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I'd rather say no and have said no and do say no often. I walk away from projects if it doesn't feel right; if it's not the right team of people pulling in together or if the script isn't right. It could be a great idea but the script doesn't work.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that's going on around the world right now, it's just good to go to a movie where you don't have to think too hard, just have a good time, and relax and be crazy.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.
Author:
Skeet Ulrich
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In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.
Author:
Skeet Ulrich
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The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
Author:
Walter Ulbricht
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If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.
Author:
Tom Udall
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.
Author:
Cicely Tyson
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We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.
Author:
Steven Tyler
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I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.
Author:
Shania Twain
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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."
Author:
Mark Twain
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Author:
Mark Twain
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All right, then, I'll go to hell.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Author:
Mark Twain
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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Author:
Mark Twain
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But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.
Author:
Tina Turner
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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
Author:
Ted Turner
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If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.
Author:
Ed Turner
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I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.
Author:
Christy Turlington
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There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.
Author:
Jonathan Turley
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An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
Author:
John Tuley
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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
Author:
John Tukey
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An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
Author:
John Tukey
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We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Author:
Harriet Tubman
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
Author:
Dalton Trumbo
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The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Author:
Harry Truman
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
Author:
G. Trudeau