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9547 Few quotes by 5579 unique authors
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But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I was going with someone for a few years, but we broke up. It was one of those things. He wanted to get married, and…
— Rita Rudner
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But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost…
— Paul Lester Wiener
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Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all…
— David Foster Wallace
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Somewhere in between all the mind games, lies and seduction...I fell for you. Somewhere in between all the broken promises, manipulation and heartaches...I got over…
— Lil Wayne
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Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
— Andrea Dworkin
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Everybody in New York thinks the Knicks are Playboy bunnies, and I have been telling them for years the Knicks are a rabbit. They're closer…
— Charles Barkley
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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
— Norm MacDonald
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to…
— Banksy
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We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency: you can see…
— James Hansen
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An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.
— John Cassavetes
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Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.
— Janet Morris
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Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down…
— Raymond Chandler
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There are very few new things in this world, very few. That's why people that are young, if they're smart, try to profit from the…
— Cus D'Amato
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are remarkably few people who enjoy these rights. With…
— Peter Gabriel
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At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a good…
— Orson Scott Card
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Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as…
— Hannah Arendt
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Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and…
— Tony Visconti
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Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a…
— Max Lucado
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Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.
— John Thorn
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If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De…
— Michael Winslow
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A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is…
— Paul Scofield
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Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked…
— Unknown Author
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If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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