Thousand Quotes - Page 32

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  Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Money

  Quoted in Marilyn Monroe in Her OwnWords (1990)

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• My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

  Michael Moore

  Mom, Dad, Years

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• We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.

  Michael Moore

  Moving, Games, People

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• Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

  Aimee Mullins

  Giving Up, Get Better, Roller Coaster

  "The Inspirational Aimee Mullins". Interview with Jeff Rivera, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

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• Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

  Guru Nanak

  Eye, Host, Form

  "Encyclopaedia of Sikhism". Book by Harbans Singh, 1992.

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• My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Samaria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Son, Land, Names

  Address to the U.N. General Assembly, mfa.gov.il. September 23, 2011.

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• Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  "Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter VII: Our Virtues, Aphorism 227, 1886.

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• The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Technology, Years, Machines

  1880 TheWanderer and His Shadow, aphorism 278.

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• Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sports, Men, Play

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• Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Giving, Atheism, Pages

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

  Jane Porter

  Happiness, Heart, Mirrors

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• In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.

  Terry Pratchett

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Success, Softball

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• The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

  Alan Price

  Success, Father, Congratulations

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• Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.

  Buddy Rich

  Creativity, Thinking, Play

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• Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

  Samuel Richardson

  Appreciate, Reason, Hundred

  Samuel Richardson (2015). “Clarissa Harlowe V: Samuel Richardson Collections”, p.151, 谷月社

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• Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

  Samuel Richardson

  And Love, May, Firsts

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life”, p.420

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• There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Kind, Imitation

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 74, 1978.

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• Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Gun

  "Accidental Gun Control: Bullets Get Expensive". www.npr.org. May 21, 2008.

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• I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.

  Kid Rock

  Kids, Independent, House

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• The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.

  Joe Rogan

  Moving, People, Nuclear

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• The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Failure, Winning

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stress, Pride, Climbing

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• The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

  Rumi

  Heart, Eye, Two

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

  Salman Rushdie

  Years, Ideas, Modern

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