Early Quotes
3964 quotes by 3085 authors
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Get this in mind early: We never grow up.
— Richard Bach
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It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes…
— Marcel Achard
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The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.
— Julian Assange
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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to…
— David Attenborough
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher.…
— Chinua Achebe
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I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
— Margaret Atwood
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I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
— Margaret Atwood
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The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the…
— Margaret Atwood
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
— Jane Austen
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I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.
— Paul Auster
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
— Irving Babbitt
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Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And…
— Lester Bangs
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On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison…
— Michael Badnarik
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a…
— Russell Baker
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I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.
— Amy Adams
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You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
— Alan Ball
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or…
— J. G. Ballard
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I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.
— Ernie Banks
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone…
— P T Barnum
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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called…
— Jack Adams
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