Held Quotes
2520 quotes by 1835 authors
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Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado…
— Joan Van Ark
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It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.
— Tom Jones
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I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields
— Tony Randall
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My therapist shared a theory she had come across, and I liked it. It held that before making your next journey in this life, your…
— Melissa Gilbert
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We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, but black males age…
— Ron Paul
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No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home…
— Joey Lauren Adams
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Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these…
— Joseph Campbell
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I want to be challenged I want to work and I want to feel that I am not being held back that there is something…
— Sofia Vassilieva
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Love is a true unconditional space to me. To love someone or to be loved is to be seen, and I think, gosh, as humans,…
— Bellamy Young
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What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are…
— John P. Walters
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It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So…
— Peter van Inwagen
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My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think…
— Rachel Held Evans
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Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment.
— Dennis Allen
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It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner…
— Daniel Kehlmann
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Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.
— Eddie Vedder
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A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of…
— Kenneth Anger
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Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.
— Rosa Parks
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A major announcement. Events are moving fast in my campaign, and yes, it's true that this morning I've dismissed my entire team of senior advisers.…
— John McCain
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What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully…
— Susan B. Anthony
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I have long held firm to my suspicion that some people are just evil. In some cases I'll concede it seems as though it is…
— Jeremy Kyle
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