Hundred Quotes - Page 31

• People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.

  Roger Corman

  Art, People, Film

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• Part of the kick of making people laugh was doing something different. We were a rare breed - spotting one of us was like pinning a space alien, or abdominal snowman. There were maybe a hundred stand-ups in the whole country when I was doing it.

  Lenny Bruce

  Country, Space, People

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I have a library room with four desks in it. On one of them is a spec, on one of them is a present work, on one of them is reading for a future work, on another desk is a novel I'm not doing until I'm a hundred and fifty, and things like that. But, contractually speaking, you just do one at a time when it's on and paid and live. You do your real day on one project and the rest is just literary life. Or intrusions.

  William Monahan

  Real, Reading, Library

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• It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Ideas, People, Despair

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• The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Average, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.

  Alex Haley

  Country, Lying, Men

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• Half a league, half a league,
  Half a league onward,
  All in the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  League, Valleys, Half

  "The Charge of the Light Brigade" l. 1 (1854)

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• Sometimes the unexpected does happen. Once, this exquisite woman fell for me. After we made love, she gave me a check for a hundred dollars. I said, "Honey, I don't get paid for sex." She said, "This is hush money."

  Ronnie Shakes

  Sex, Doe, Dollars

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• Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, One Day, Five Senses

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “The Cherry Orchard”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Medicine, Probability, Dose

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• Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.

  Margaret Catley-Carlson

  Water, Decision, Risk

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• Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

  George Eliot

  Son, Two, Extras

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.28

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• If you take a single step toward positive change, that divine energy will take a hundred steps toward you. New worlds and unbelievable possibilities will open up for you. The synchronicities that will begin appearing in your life will become a source of delight and amazement.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Delight, World, Steps

  Joan Z. Borysenko, Ph.D. (2009). “Inner Peace for Busy People (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.346, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.

  Laozi

  Dream, Moving, Long

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• The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Growing Up, Heart, Opportunity

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• The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.

  Henry Rollins

  Years, People, Attendance

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• There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Fire, Law

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Track, Ponds

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.98, Library of Alexandria

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• While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, War, Lakes

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• The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Dozen, Pages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.41, Harvard University Press

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• The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a seven-hundred-thousand-dollar study to see if Alaskan trees are polluting Oregon forests. You can tell Republicans are in power. Pollution? It's those damn trees.

  Jay Leno

  Oregon, Agency, Tree

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• The last sort of really low-key race I ran, I realized with about a hundred metres to go, that my heart just wasn't in it. I wasn't trying my hardest, I didn't care to compete against the girls I was up against. That spoke a lot about where my heart was taking me-which was off the track.

  Cathy Freeman

  Girl, Heart, Keys

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• We lived in a neighborhood that was too rich for us. When I was young, I had to deliver groceries to the homes of the kids I went to school with. I had to go to the back doors to make the deliveries. It was embarrassing. That was one thing out of a hundred.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Home, School, Kids

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

  Anatole Broyard

  Divorce, Tragedy, World

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• We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!

  Eddie Izzard

  Europe, Two, Language

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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