Two Quotes - Page 25

• There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

  Socrates

  Ignorance, Soul, Vices

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• My two great loves are music and horses.

  Betty Buckley

  Horse, Great Love

  Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. September, 2006.

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• I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Teacher, Silly, Voice

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• The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Stars, Islands, Mountain

  "Traveling with the Stars: Buzz Aldrin". Interview with Kelly Carter, abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2009.

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• I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Mean, Building Up, Levels

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.167, National Geographic Books

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• I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn't a slouch.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Airplane, Korea, Shots

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. July 3, 2014.

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• To me, Twitter often feels like shouting things into a two-way mirror that I know has people behind it, maybe even people I know, and they are definitely listening, but mostly remain perfectly silent.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Mirrors, People, Listening

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and still maintain some kind of morality and perspective in the world. It is not the elimination of one side of the equation or the elimination of what you don't like; it is the investigation of everything.

  Eve Ensler

  Real, Opposites, Perspective

  Interview with Carolyn Roark, www.ecumenicajournal.org. February 16, 2016.

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• There's no law against a sentence existing in two places at once, unlike humans, who are no longer allowed to bilocate because it confuses the cops too much.

  Patricia Lockwood

  Law, Too Much, Cop

  "What Would Twitter Do?" with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. July 23, 2014.

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• Philosophy does provide me a structure and a way of thinking. Religion - like the religion I grew up with, Mormonism - also provides a way of thinking. And I think those two structures - one highly logical, the other anything but - are always part of my thought process as I'm putting together a story.

  Brian Evenson

  Philosophy, Thinking, Together

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• When I do only images, people don't connect with the images because the images are too weird to understand. But when I explain the weird images with straight words, then all of a sudden there is a tension between the two that the audience wants to see.

  Signe Baumane

  People, Want, Tension

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women's contraception, family planning.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Years, Issues

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Two-thirds of Americans believe that, after a baby's heart is beating and they can feel pain, that they need some protection.

  Barack Obama

  Baby, Pain, Believe

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's okay. But I would write a novel that couldn't be a film.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Different

  "INTERVIEW: Augusten Burroughs, Author of ‘Running With Scissors’". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.ropeofsilicon.com. October 27, 2006.

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• We have to make sure that not only we [politicians] actually focus on, but the entire nation knows we're focusing on, growth and competition within the United States of America and compete internationally. I don't know anywhere where it's written that we have to be number two.

  Joe Biden

  Numbers, America, Focus

  "Transcript: Vice President Biden Live on Msnbc's Morning Joe". www.nbcnews.com. November 19, 2010.

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• In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that] I put the first All Stars band together. It's actually progressed from that every other year, or every two years, I've put that together...more and more realizing that's what I do.

  Ringo Starr

  Stars, Years, Together

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• From the very beginning the president [of USA] had two very important principles that had to be reconciled. One principle is that every woman should have the right to all forms of preventive health care, including contraception. The other is that we need to respect the religious liberties which are the cornerstone of American life.

  Jacob Lew

  Religious, Should Have, Usa

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The challenge for any government is how do you do two things at the same time. How do you put money forward for things like the payroll tax holiday, for things like getting a jump-start on infrastructure, for building schools, and make the decisions for long-term deficit reduction.

  Jacob Lew

  School, Holiday, Payroll Tax

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In film you have the script months ahead of time often, for a good film, but in television it seems like you might not get the script until a week or two weeks before you've got to film it. It's a little weird, but also quite challenging. It reminds me of repertory theatre.

  Wesley Snipes

  Challenges, Theatre, Television

  Source: deadline.com

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• In order to keep your husband, you have to make time for him. Rather than going out to dinner, I like to spend time for just the two of us.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Husband, Order, Dinner

  "Giada talks Mother's Day traditions". Interview with Vidya Rao, www.today.com. May 3, 2010.

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• Reversing structural problems in our economy that have been building up for two decades, that was gonna take time. It was gonna take more than a year. It was gonna take more than two years. It was gonna take more than one term. Probably takes more than one president.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Building Up, President

  "Interview With President Obama". "60 Minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. December 11, 2011.

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• Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.

  George Jones

  Couple, Artist, Years

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• There are two schools of thought. A manager would tell you that must make them realize you're a dedicated actor and I took a totally different route than that. I never ever took myself seriously.

  George Hamilton

  School, Different, Actors

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts. I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.

  Al Sharpton

  Thinking, Cities, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Vision, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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