Fairs Quotes - Page 15

• Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  "The Works of George Santayana".

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• My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy writer, and she's at film school. I discouraged both of them early on from getting involved in Starbucks. I didn't think it would be fair; plus, they didn't have any interest anyway.

  Howard Schultz

  Sports, Daughter, School

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• I made my fair share of mistakes.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Mistake, Share, Made

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• To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

  Walter Scott

  Good Night, Goodnight, Dream

  Sir Walter Scott (1826). “The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Etc”, p.82

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• It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.

  Will Self

  Sports, Taken, Loss

  "'You may now turn over your papers'". www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Farewell, fair cruelty.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Funny, Farewell

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1824). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.78

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• I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Venice, Mind, Villain

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [179]

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• So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

  William Shakespeare

  Important Macbeth, Foul, Darkness In Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 38

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• There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

  William Shakespeare

  Vanity, Glasses, Mouths

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [35]

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• I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

  Sidney Sheldon

  People, Kind, Admire

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• Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.

  Simon Sinek

  Law, Purpose, Half

  "It’s Not Nice to Stab People" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

  Zadie Smith

  Self, Good Times, Knows

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 04, 2012.

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• I think that all of us, as Americans, are due due process and have a right to a fair trial, and have a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. I think that is the American way and it's the foundation upon which this country was built.

  Wesley Snipes

  Country, Thinking, Trials

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• I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.

  Brittany Snow

  Best Friend, Suicide, School

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• A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

  George Soros

  Political, Democracy, Essentials

  "Why We Must Not Reelect President Bush". www.project-syndicate.org. October 17, 2004.

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• Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Want, Politician

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• All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

  Thomas Sowell

  Political, Pay, Moral

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• Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

  Arlen Specter

  Strong, Health, Years

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• As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Play, Competition, Stronger

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• I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.

  Bruce Springsteen

  White, Black, Bars

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• No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Home, Play

  Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.85, Oneworld Publications

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• It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.

  Joss Stone

  Like You, Let Me, Not Fair

  "Joss Stone Shows Independence With CD" by Mark Kennedy, www.foxnews.com. April 16, 2007.

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• I think it's really important that the people who are going to make decisions for other people have fair, truthful and compassionate regard for all people, not just some people.

  Sharon Stone

  Thinking, People, Decision

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• I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Song, Artist

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• Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

  John Millington Synge

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  John Millington Synge (1999). “The Aran Islands”, p.18, Northwestern University Press

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