Despite Quotes
1296 Despite quotes by 1034 unique authors
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Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the…
— Solomon Ortiz
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Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of…
— Michael Palin
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Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
— Sarah Palin
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This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact…
— Itzhak Perlman
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I have no interest in anyone who wants to criticise me, or doesn't like me despite never having met me.
— Kevin Pietersen
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Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.
— Harold Prince
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Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.
— Prince
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Despite being in showbiz, I have a very real approach to my life. It plays off with my social life.
— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.
— Daniel Radcliffe
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
— Dan Rather
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Despite our differences, I know that both Republicans and Democrats love America.
— Marco Rubio
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Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is…
— Joel Salatin
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I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these…
— Marjane Satrapi
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I've traveled around the world, and what's so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal…
— Howard Schultz
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In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite…
— Will Self
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Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we…
— Will Self
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I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this…
— Maria Sharapova
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Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best,…
— Wilbur Smith
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Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
— Zadie Smith
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
— Zadie Smith
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See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy…
— Wole Soyinka
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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of…
— Eliot Spitzer
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The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending…
— Eliot Spitzer
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