Fairly Quotes
774 Fairly quotes by 662 unique authors
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Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and…
— Edmund Burke
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business…
— Alan Greenspan
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I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a…
— John Howe
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The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about…
— Jean Paul Gaultier
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral,…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved…
— Celia Green
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Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news…
— Rick Mercer
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I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.
— Jeannette Walls
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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I…
— Roy Lichtenstein
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I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.
— Mary MacLane
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If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms…
— Robert Waterman McChesney
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I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories…
— Laurie Notaro
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Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.
— Knute Nelson
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I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all…
— Bjorn Lomborg
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I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so…
— Oren Peli
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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as…
— Tamora Pierce
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I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that…
— Mike Quade
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I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
— Fred Saberhagen
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I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.
— Ken Salazar
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I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I…
— Jonathan Lethem
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As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play…
— Fred Ward
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I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers,…
— Shailene Woodley
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Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.
— Paul A. Offit
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In 'Three Cups of Tea' I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they're laptop warriors and there's no boots on the…
— Greg Mortenson
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