Etc Quotes
701 quotes by 563 authors
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One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a…
— Noam Chomsky
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I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the…
— Thomas A. Edison
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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In your letter you apply the word imponderable to a molecule. Don't do that again. It may also be worth knowing that the aether cannot…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the…
— Juan Goytisolo
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I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.
— Amanda Hocking
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I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And…
— Chico Hamilton
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I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but... I haven't read them.
— Max Irons
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I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.
— Brian Jacques
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The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and…
— Jayne Ann Krentz
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I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing,…
— David Knopfler
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to…
— Zhang Ziyi
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To be honest, there were alot of talks about SS501. Alot of talks like how there was only Kim Hyun Joong enough in SS501, etc..…
— Kim Kyu-jong
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I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market,…
— Claire Messud
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I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep the…
— Jonas Mekas
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I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art that drives the…
— Thornton Willis
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And what you do is you go into where your anger is, if you're writing anger, you go into where your hatred is, if you're…
— Timothy Findley
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I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.
— Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a…
— C.S. Lewis
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In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision?…
— Lukas Haas
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