Masters Quotes - Page 16

• My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

  Ben Affleck

  Mother, Dad, School

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• Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then turn around and come out with 'Feels So Right.' Go out and have fun and be those guys that like to party, then turn around and make every woman in America want Randy Owen.

  Jason Aldean

  Fun, Party, Rivers

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• Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

  Dante Alighieri

  Art, Grandchildren, Able

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song XI, 103, 1321.

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• That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

  David Amram

  People, Done, Want

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• More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

  Kofi Annan

  Destiny, Together, Faces

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Oct 24, 2016

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• We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Believe, Saint, May

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• I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.

  Pietro Aretino

  Men, Worry, Style

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• Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Keys, Sri Lanka

  "The Renaissance in India" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1918 - November 1918.

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• The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Believe, Ignorance, Butterfly

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

  Erykah Badu

  Artist, World, Punching

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• Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

  Russell Baker

  War, People, Culture

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• The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Long, Heaven, Atheism

  "Man, Society, and Freedom" by Mikhail Bakunin (1871), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, 1971.

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• I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask "Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this a wide? What are you doing?" If I look up and notice the camera I go "Oh, it's a big one today, must be an IMAX." And that's kinda it for me because it doesn't affect what I'm doing.

  Christian Bale

  Actors, Care, Today

  "Christian Bale Talks Shooting in IMAX, Ending the Trilogy, Fight Scenes with Bane & More on the Set of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

  P. T. Barnum

  Money, Fire, Excellent

  "Money: How To Get It, How To Keep It".

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• Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

  Saint Basil

  Evil, Doctrine, Taught

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.19, CUA Press

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• When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

  Angela Bassett

  Mother, School, College

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

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• This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Rain, Noses, Hours

  Cyrano de Bergerac (2015). “A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You”, p.5, 谷月社

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• Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.

  Annie Besant

  Spiritual, Taken, Men

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• We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.

  Annie Besant

  Husband, Home, Thinking

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Anniversary, Romantic

  Devil's Dictionary (1911) p. 213

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• I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

  Cate Blanchett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thinking

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• I have only one counsel for you - be master.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

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• After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Fake People, Life Is Hard, Wells

  Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven (2002). “Joseph Brodsky: Conversations”, p.93, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

  H. Rap Brown

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

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• Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

  Robert Browning

  Men, Feet, Temptation

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 10, l. 1184

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