Extent Quotes
1219 Extent quotes by 962 unique authors
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I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the…
— Eddie Vedder
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Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But…
— Jesse Ventura
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I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose…
— Christopher Walken
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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to…
— Horace Walpole
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I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the…
— Denzel Washington
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I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
— Vivienne Westwood
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I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, 'I've made…
— Joss Whedon
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The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is…
— Ellen G. White
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Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and…
— Bradley Whitford
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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
— E. O. Wilson
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I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
— Bob Woodward
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I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform…
— Steve Wozniak
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The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing,…
— Martin Filler
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We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a…
— Nathan Wolfe
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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often…
— Lloyd Alexander
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To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its capacity to surprise,…
— Tom Robbins
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Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too,…
— Ann Brashares
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We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual…
— Joseph Conrad
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The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.
— Katharine Graham
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Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction…
— Theodore Kaczynski
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Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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The devil knows that if the elders of Israel should ever wake up, they could step forth and help preserve freedom and extend the gospel.…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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