Profile Quotes - Page 2

• If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

  Oscar Wilde

  Would Be, Poverty, Problem

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price

  Samuel Morse

  Science, Ivory, Dollars

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• With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really as innocent as we felt when we were first hurt. And we do not usually have a gigantic monster to forgive; we have a weak, needy, and somewhat stupid human being. When you see your enemy and yourself in the weakness and silliness of the humanity you share, you will make the miracle of forgiving a little easier.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Stupid

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• I know that if I say something that's considered outrageous, a group will take it, create an email blast, and use me to raise money or to do whatever, to build their profile.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Email, Groups, Use

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• Expecting rain, the profile of a day Wears its soul like a hat.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Rain

  John Ashbery (1981). “Shadow train: poems”, Viking Adult

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• It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

  Robert Wyatt

  Friends, Mean, Two Sides

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• Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Balloons, Increase

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• To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.

  Tom Bissell

  Believe, Magic, Stories

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• In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

  Peter Garrett

  Weather, Australia, Climate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.

  Pete du Pont

  Strong, Jobs, Giving

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• Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

  Peter Bart

  Movie, Summer, Past

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• I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

  Julia Stiles

  College, People, Trying

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• I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.

  Frank Bruno

  Dad, Healthy, Want

  "I've finally beaten my mental health demons" by Nick Owens, www.mirror.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

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• Success: The successful person is willing to do what the unsuccessful person is not willing to do. Draw a profile of success in whatever you are choosing to improve. If you are willing to do what that profile demands, then you have a credible demand of success. If you are not willing to do that then it just will not be there for you. You can't have the one without the other.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Success, Wisdom, Peace

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• There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the concrete lineaments of how we happen exist in this time and place. We are participants in a dynamic system and we know its profile only by its action in organizing how we interact together and how we see our own selves. "The truth is the whole," and the whole is a system of living energy: our life as human and historical spirits.

  Kenny Smith

  Truth, Self, Historical

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• There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

  Oscar Wilde

  Work, Men, Numbers

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.437, University of Chicago Press

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• It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for me; I waved my notepad at the dashboard to transmit my profile, then waited as the seating and controls rearranged themselves slightly, piezoelectric actuators humming. As I started to reverse out of the parking bay, the stereo began a soothing improvisation, flashing up a deadpan title: Music for Leaving Airports 11 June 2008.

  Greg Egan

  June, Airports, Car

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• As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.

  Brian Setzer

  United States, Labels, Bass

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• The Bridge had a lot of long, soft profiles about the administration, .. In contrast, BU Today has shorter, hard pieces - more consistent with online journalism - which people can read every morning when they log on.

  Craig David

  Morning, Bridges, Long

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• now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since been closed / they keep pounding their fists on reality hoping it will break / but I don't think there's a one of us leads a life free of mistakes

  Ani DiFranco

  Country, Mistake, Reality

  Song: Lost Woman Song

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• The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Fighting, Order, Organization

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• Coal used to be a very dirty fuel but coal has become cleaner and cleaner over the decades. Clean coal now is quite clean. Clean coal now has the same emissions profile as natural gas. Clean coal can become cleaner still. We can take even more of the pollutants out of coal and I believe we should. Clean coal, I think, is the immediate answer to Canada's energy needs and the world's energy needs. There are hundreds of years available of coal supplies. We shouldn't be squandering that resource. We should be using it prudently.

  Lawrence Solomon

  Believe, Dirty, Thinking

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• I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.

  Andrew Scott

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

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

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• The primary job for women in Hollywood is still super-attractive actress. That is the most high-profile women's job in Hollywood.

  Diablo Cody

  Jobs, Actresses, Hollywood

  "Diablo Cody Thinks Lena Dunham Is ‘Our New Woody Allen" By Lori Fradkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2013.

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• If I wasn't going through a thing where I was also being my characters offstage, uh, I'm much happier just wearing the most low-profile things that I can come up with just so I can get down the street.

  David Bowie

  Character, Lows, Come Up

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. August, 2003.

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