Approaching Quotes
293 quotes by 267 authors
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Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and breathed in with…
— Cathleen Schine
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You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.
— Juliana Hatfield
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The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities…
— Richard Lamm
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There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many…
— Mark Barrowcliffe
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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was…
— Akhil Sharma
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My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what…
— Wong Kar-wai
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen…
— Walter Kirn
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I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other.…
— Jules Verne
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
— Susan B. Anthony
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Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the…
— Bob Ehrlich
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In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.
— Peter Senge
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We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should…
— William Odom
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Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products.…
— David Crane
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It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new…
— Yo-Yo Ma
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If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but…
— Marvin Harris
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I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood…
— Richard Donner
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I am almost 30 so I am approaching this one as if it will be my last Olympic Games. I want to put out 110…
— Asafa Powell
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By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.
— Tom Shales
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I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.
— Philip Selway
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who Wrote These Approaching Quotes
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