Amount Quotes
2570 quotes by 2052 authors
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new…
— Hannah Arendt
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Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.
— Julian Assange
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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
— Neil Armstrong
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that…
— Neil Armstrong
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
— Margaret Atwood
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The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became…
— Amitabh Bachchan
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
— Francis Bacon
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
— Lord Acton
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The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist'…
— David Bailey
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But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right…
— Christian Bale
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made…
— Alan Ball
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
— Honore de Balzac
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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over…
— Charles Kendall Adams
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The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the…
— Eric Bana
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
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Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
— John Barrymore
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the…
— Warren Beatty
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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
— Joseph Addison
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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
— Robert Benchley
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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing…
— Robert Benchley
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