Two Things Quotes - Page 21

• Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.

  Gertrude Stein

  Reality, Two, Literature

  Afterword to an edition on "What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them", as quoted by Robert Haas in a January 1946 interview,

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• Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignorant enough and hypocritical enough to hold in high esteem the man of wealth without the slightest regard to the character of the man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Money, Character, Men

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures".

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• The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

  Ewan McGregor

  Romantic, Running, Black And White

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2002.

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• There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

  Boris Vian

  Love, Music, Beautiful

  Boris Vian (2001). “I spit on your graves”, Canongate Books

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• If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things; first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.

  Walter Raleigh

  Inspirational, Success, Two

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.557

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• The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

  Plautus

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

  Stephen Chow

  Soccer, Children, Two

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• You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

  Beano Cook

  Heart, Two, Flying

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• Money is only used for two things. One, it's to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence.

  Bob Proctor

  Money, Two, Creative

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• As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

  Julie Burchill

  Children, Book, Two

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• There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Two, Ghost

  Twitter post from May 04, 2011

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• There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

  Hippocrates

  Believe, Ignorance, Two

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• If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car!

  Prince

  Mean, Men, Doors

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• When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

  Patricia Cornwell

  College, Two, Funeral

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

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• But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.

  Melinda Gates

  Kids, Iphone, Two

  "Report: Bill Gates Won't Let His Kids Have iPods", www.foxnews.com. March 4, 2009.

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• Men only need two things - grilled cheese and sex.

  Emmy Rossum

  Sex, Men, Two

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

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• Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Sex, Humor

  "Sleeper", 1973.

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• Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sex, Book, Character

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• The evidence for Jesus' resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things: First, it is a very unusual event. And second, if you believe it happened, you have to change the way you live.

  Wolfhart Pannenberg

  Religious, Jesus, Strong

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• Remember, there are two things that keep us oppressed: them and us. We are half of the equation. There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now OK to express ourselves publicly. We must make that day ourselves, by speaking out publicly -- first in small numbers, then in greater numbers, until it's simply the way things are and no one thinks twice. Never doubt that we will create this world, because, my friends, we are fortunate to live in a democracy, and in a democracy, we decide what's possible.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Thinking, Small Numbers, Two

  "Tammy Baldwin, Our Voice of the Future" by Kristen Hotham Carroll, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• You can test what we have talked about today. Just try two things. Listen for the whisperings of the Spirit and then commit to obey. . . . God will take advantage of that if you let Him

  Henry B. Eyring

  Two, Listening, Trying

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• Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Player, Two

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

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• To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united.

  Pope Pius XII

  Two, Should, United

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• A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Two, Creative, Leader

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• True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).

  Stephen Covey

  Eggs, Two, Effectiveness

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.64, Mango Media Inc.

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