Classic Quotes

• Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

  Abraham Maslow

  Motivation, Reality, Self

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• And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Sad, Writing

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.85, Anchor

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• Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

  Dean Acheson

  Inspirational, Party, Agree To Disagree

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• All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Dark, Scary, Fairy Tale

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• I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

  Kurt Cobain

  Divorce, Childhood, Fatherhood

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• I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Adversity, Gone

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• Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Latin, Two, Ballroom Dance

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• I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

  William Shatner

  Reading, Bradbury, Isaac

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• I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

  Michael Zaslow

  Thinking, Opera, Soap

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Marijuana, Long

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1968). “Bookman's Progress: The Selected Writings of Lawrence Clark Powell”

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• I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.

  Fred Savage

  Black And White, Watches, Eras

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

  Courtney Love

  Want, Stuff, Tutor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.

  Michel Patini

  Goal, Score

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• I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.

  Debra Wilson

  Beautiful, Women, Talking

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• It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Music, Cleaning, Honest

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• The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

  Kathy Valentine

  Valentines Day, Thinking, Firsts

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• When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that.

  George Thorogood

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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• My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

  Johnny Ramone

  Song, Russia, Albums

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• I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

  Parker Stevenson

  Mistake, Made, Something Better

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• Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

  William Goldman

  War, Land, Lines

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.116, A&C Black

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• A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

  Ezra Pound

  Definitions, Fit, Certain

  Ezra Pound (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Easy, Excellent, Said

  "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" (1893) See Arthur Conan Doyle 39

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• A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Book, Writing, Written

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