Instance Quotes
916 quotes by 711 authors
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The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual…
— Barack Obama
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In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor…
— Kim Stanley
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There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier…
— David Walliams
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I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just…
— James Earl Jones
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Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing to have, earn…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us…
— Laurence Sterne
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I think it's interesting how people act on their beliefs. A lot of Christians, for instance, wear crosses around their necks. Nice sentiment, but do…
— Bill Hicks
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Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change the true intended…
— Suzy Kassem
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I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because…
— Alejandro Amenabar
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For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we…
— John Hench
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The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.
— Trevor Nunn
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This principle applies to your family pet, for instance, which I believe are wonderful because they put you into a great emotional state. When you…
— James Arthur Ray
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Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.
— Aron Nimzowitsch
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While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same…
— Mark Knopfler
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As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break…
— Mel Torme
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I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics…
— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
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In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to…
— Poppy Z. Brite
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I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of…
— Alan Bradley
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