Two Things Quotes - Page 7

• I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

  Paul Dirac

  Equality, Two, Trying

  Paul Dirac's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1933.

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• The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.

  Dr. Dre

  Two, Scare, Irs

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

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• Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor.

  Bobby Flay

  Two, Quality, Flavor

  "Bobby Flay on Good Fast Food and Bad Restaurant Ideas". Interview with Andrew Del-Colle, www.menshealth.com. March 11, 2011.

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• Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.

  Joshua Foer

  Sex, Memorable, Two

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.76, Penguin

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• When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

  Al Franken

  New York, Two, Feels

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• A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivation, Sleep, Two

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin”, p.49

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• I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

  James A. Garfield

  Patriotic, Two, Political

  Letter to Burke Aaron Hinsdale on January 01, 1867. "The Life of Gen. James A. Garfield". Book by Jonas Mills Bundy, p. 77, 1880.

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• There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Two, Brutality, Stories

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• Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Thinking, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.' The other thing I do is pretend I'm talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me.

  Chick Hearn

  Boys, Two, Talking

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• Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Sweet, Jobs, Two

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• There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

  Paul Hindemith

  Music, Two, Cleaning

  1938 Letter to Willy Strecker

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• When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

  S. E. Hinton

  Movie, Home, Two

  The Outsiders ch. 1 (1967)

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• Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Time, Attitude, Character

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Technology, Two Sides

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.310, Cambridge University Press

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• Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Hate

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• If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.

  Penn Jillette

  Lying, Order, Two

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• I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Growing Up, Nba

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

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• Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Jesus, Character, Two

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• There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

  Franz Kafka

  Lying, Two, Deceit

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

  Imran Khan

  Spiritual, Men, Opposites

  "The path of Khan". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Two, Want

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

  Karlie Kloss

  Teacher, Kids, Two

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• When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Girl, Sweet, Kids

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