Dues Quotes - Page 33

• All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.

  Al Pacino

  Stars, Thinking, Dancing

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• The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

  Thomas Paine

  Religious, Bipolar, Religion

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• Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.

  Henry Paulson

  Home, Due Diligence, Today

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• Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

  Daniel Pipes

  Giving Up, War, Sides

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• Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.

  John Podhoretz

  America, Cities, Bills

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• Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.

  Lucy Powell

  Yield, Fuel Prices, Effort

  "Saving the economy or saving the planet is not an either-or" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2008.

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• Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

  Marcel Proust

  Suffering, Physicians, Certain

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.578, Wordsworth Editions

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• Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Loss, Bankers

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• Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.

  Basil Rathbone

  August, Week, Rate

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• Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.

  Gloria Reuben

  Weather, Climate, Pollution

  "A Night in New York" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2010.

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• As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.

  Eric Ries

  Real, Serious Illness, Entrepreneur

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• If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Motivational, Strength, Success

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• Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Stars, Lucky, Our Actions

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• Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Expression, Desire, Crime

  Decline and Fall pt. 3, ch. 1 (1928)

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• Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

  Simone Weil

  Equality, Degrees, Needs

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.224, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

  Kanye West

  Band, British, Rhythm

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• There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Real, Progress, Genius

  "Westwood ho!" by Alix Sharkey, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2001.

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• Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.

  Rowan Williams

  Judging, Attention, Way

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• Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

  E. O. Wilson

  Real, Looks, Research

  "E.O. Wilson Is on Top of the World". Interview with Jill Neimark, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1998.

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• Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What better way than to film a number of expectant mums from across the U.K.? Coming from widely different backgrounds, all were due to give birth on January 1, 2000.

  Robert Winston

  Children, Numbers, Giving

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• Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Engineering, Tools, Woe

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• The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.

  James Wolcott

  Country, Art, School

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• Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.

  Ron Wyden

  Simple, Oil, Numbers

  "Is the Keystone XL Pipeline a Good Deal for Americans?" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.

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• Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

  Loretta Young

  Giving, Credit, Rewards

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• I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Movie, Track, Acting

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