Various Quotes - Page 21

• In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

  Socrates

  Winning, Say Anything, Way

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• A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Groups, Determined

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Icarus; or, the Future of Science”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

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• One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.

  Moss Hart

  Careers, Advice, Actors

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.

  Janet Fitch

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.274, Hachette UK

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• I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Country, Order, Issues

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• Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

  Abdul Kalam

  Type, Certain, Trade

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• I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

  Carla Gugino

  Movie, People, Vision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly, be there as long as possible, to over-research things and over-staff.

  Robert Pozen

  Law, Long, Research

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• Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Stars, War, Different

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• The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Teaching, Men, Secret

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.1206, Penguin

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• As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

  Jane Byrne

  Mistake, Thinking, Campaigns

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• In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.

  Jane Byrne

  Cities, Community, Chicago

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• I've seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn't understand much, but I loved watching the presentation.

  Simon Baker

  Country, Believe, Broken

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

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• I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.

  Adelaide Clemens

  Children, Military, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind - I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things that happened inside people's heads.

  Dan Chaon

  Reading, Kids, Psychosis

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

  Elliott Carter

  Zero, Paris, London

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• When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

  Howard Dean

  Jobs, Creating Things, Investing

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• This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Children, Together

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• My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Space, Orbit, Mit

  Foresight Interview, foresight.org.

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• I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Mean, Honor, Literature

  "Interview: Jeffrey Eugenides on writing in C major". Interview with Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 29, 2011.

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• The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Groups, Scientist, Approach

  Kenichi Fukui (1997). “Frontier Orbitals and Reaction Paths: Selected Papers of Kenichi Fukui”, p.151, World Scientific

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• But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.

  Lauren Groff

  Talking, Ledges, Care

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• Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

  Fay Godwin

  Mother, Photography, Children

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• 1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.

  Leon Askin

  Art, Mean, Cities

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• Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

  Samuel Alexander

  Psychology, Details, Different

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