Example Quotes
2828 quotes by 2145 authors
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The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent…
— Stewart Udall
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Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple…
— Lysander Spooner
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The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
— Ram Dass
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Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for…
— Steve Nash
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When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at…
— Juanes
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To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme…
— Michael Caine
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My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for…
— Julian Assange
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Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and…
— Janice Dickinson
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It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.
— Joan Didion
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Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I…
— Mohamed ElBaradei
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I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
— Eric Schmidt
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My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not…
— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson…
— Adam McKay
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Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining…
— Amanda Lindhout
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A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.
— Jools Holland
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I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to…
— Dave Grohl
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I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my…
— Tom Ford
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Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With…
— Murray Rothbard
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If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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