This Day Quotes - Page 20

• To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Book, Past, Long

  "V.S. Naipaul in Search of Himself: A Conversation" with Mel Gussow, "The New York Times", April 24, 1994.

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• In this day and age if you've got the technology then it's vital to use that technology to track people down. The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get.

  Tony Blair

  Technology, Maximum Number, Numbers

  "PM champions new DNA technology". news.bbc.co.uk. October 23, 2006.

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• Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once took the stage at Old Main and told the nation that if anyone did not believe the American principles of freedom and equality, that those principles were timeless and all-inclusive, they should go rip that page out of the Declaration of Independence.

  Barack Obama

  Rip, Believe, Men

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• It makes me feel like a very special person, that I'm able to make my living with my imagination. I developed a big respect for my calling while I was in school, and it remains with me to this day.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  School, Imagination, Special

  Interview magazine, June 1995.

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• On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.

  Gordon Brown

  School, People, Childhood

  Gordon Brown's First Speech as Prime Minister, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 27, 2007.

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• Before computers were everywhere I used record books, the old-fashioned way. I loved to cram, and I still love to cram, anything I write with extra facts, stuff I picked up. At the same time, especially in this day and age, you've got to make it sound like, or read like, you've not just been Googling because that's not fair, that's not right!

  Steve Bunce

  Book, Writing, Age

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• We believe, from everything we have been told by the intelligence community, by 12 years of history with Iraq, by the experience of the U.N. inspectors and by other intelligence agencies in other countries that Saddam Hussein had the intention to develop weapons of mass destruction and to have such weapons, and that was a sound judgment which I still believe to this day because he had had them in the past, he'd used them in the past.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Believe, Past

  "Secretary of State Colin Powell". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 25, 2004.

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• But more I cannot wish you Than to wish you find your love Your own true love this day.

  Frank Loesser

  Love You, Wish, Wish You

  Frank Loesser (2003). “The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.

  Willie Nelson

  Running, Angel, Night

  "The Facts of Life: And Other Dirty Jokes". Book by Willie Nelson and Larry McMurtry, 2003.

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• In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

  Milton Friedman

  Hell Hath No Fury, Age, Needs

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inward, Genius, Done

  1867 'On the Study of Celtic Literature'

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• It's mandatory in this day and age to be considered to have a sense of humor and to demonstrate it. You're not paying me for a joke, You're paying me for the right joke.

  Robert Orben

  Age, Sense Of Humor, Jokes

  "Backstory: Serious business of jokes in politics". Gail Russell Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor, December 9, 2005.

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• The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Littles, Too Much, Needs

  Alexander Maclaren (1906). “Expositions of Holy Scripture”, p.323, CCEL

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• I'm so grateful this day has ended well.

  Hillary Clinton

  Grateful, Wells, So Grateful

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• God has given us a gift in Jesus Christ. And people don't understand: it's for our benefit. One of the things that says, "For unto you is born this day a savior." They say, "Well, I don't need a savior." Believe me: if you didn't need one, God wouldn't have sent it. Because he wouldn't have wasted the time.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Believe, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.

  David Jason

  Media, Age, Television

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• I think the biggest mistake - I was always a big fan of Cary Grant, and he asked me to do a movie with him, playing the second lead, and I didn't do it. And to this day, I can't remember why. But I could've said I worked with Cary Grant, but I turned him down. That was probably the biggest mistake I ever made.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Mistake, Thinking, Remember

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• People talk about the All Woman video to this day.

  Lisa Stansfield

  People, Video

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• The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.'

  David Carr

  Forever, One Day, Wake Up

  David Carr (2012). “The Night of the Gun”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Courage, Responsibility

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• So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, "Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!

  Conor Oberst

  Keys, Waiting, Locks

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• I've been given the opportunity to be alive in this day and age, and it's rare.

  Adrian Grenier

  Opportunity, Age, Alive

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• To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought property. I just move between temporary base camps. I know that the very notion of home, of having a family or community, is a hard one for me to embrace.

  Pico Iyer

  Moving, Home, Community

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I bought my first camera to photograph my brother's children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and of not being focused on yourself, and I have to say that these things have remained with me to this day. I can immediately feel when someone is putting on a camera face.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Brother, Children, Cameras

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• My thing in this day and age, with reality television and so much other stuff that is going on, is people want to feel the reality. They want to relate.

  Darius McCrary

  Reality, People, Age

  "The Darius McCrary Interview - The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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