Initials Quotes - Page 7

• My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Character, Reality

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• The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

  Aristotle

  Truth, Honesty, Ethics

  Aristotle (2015). “On The Heavens”, p.10, Aristotle

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• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

  Hannah Arendt

  Punishment, Criminals, Firsts

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.238, Penguin

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• I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'

  Malin Akerman

  Names, Excited, Moments

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

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• I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

  Jensen Ackles

  Girl, Firsts, Nervous

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• When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  People, Pressure, Producers

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• Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Life, Wedding

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.248, First Avenue Editions

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• If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

  Patrick Swayze

  Artist, Past, Remember

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• All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Inspiration, Character, People

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• I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

  Salman Rushdie

  Games, Thrones, Resistance

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• In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100 clicks per day. At $5 per day, marketing people scoffed and said that is too small to matter. But if you think about it, to an engineer, 100 real humans everyday giving your product a try means you can really start improving.

  Eric Ries

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

  Nicole Richie

  Jobs, Creating, Sketching

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• Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

  Paul Rand

  Artist, Arrows, Elements

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• If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.

  Henri Poincare

  Law, Succeed, Moments

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• I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically.

  Joan Jett

  Country, Heart, Thinking

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• I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Firsts, Facts, Certain

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

  Henry George

  Used, Results, Force

  Henry George (1916). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; the Remedy”

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• The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

  Arthur Erickson

  Dark, Feelings, May

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• I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying I could do things politically that were interesting to me and do some what I thought would be good. I'm not sure it all turned out like that, but at least that was some of the initial thinking.

  Jack Abramoff

  Thinking, Interesting, Lobbyists

  "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. April 3, 2012.

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• I think initially, our audiences were filled with young men. You know, our initial audience was a lot of young guys who I think were trying to - who you played a bit of a big brother role for and were trying to sort out a lot of the same things right - soon as "Born To Run" hit, you know? So it was something that I worked pretty hard on.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, Brother, Men

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Sometimes you walk into things, that, if you were paying attention, vibrationally, you would know right from the beginning that it wasn't what you are wanting. In most cases, your initial knee-jerk response was a pretty good indicator of how it was going to turn out later. The things that give most of you the most grief are those things that initially you had a feeling response about, but then you talked yourself out of it for one reason or another.

  Esther Hicks

  Grief, Giving, Feelings

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• The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of ‘falling’ in love, and the permanent state of being in love, or as we might better say, of ‘standing’ in love.

  Erich Fromm

  Falling In Love, Lying, Being In Love

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.4, A&C Black

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• Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

  R.K. Narayan

  Produce, Shock, Associates

  R. K. Narayan (2009). “Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher”, p.517, Everyman's Library

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• J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.

  Edward Abbey

  J Edgar Hoover, Parnell, Shitheads

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Cutting, August

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.128, Macmillan

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