Maintaining Quotes
324 quotes by 290 authors
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Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family…
— Heath Ledger
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The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of…
— Max Lerner
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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like…
— Charles de Lint
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Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of…
— Wynton Marsalis
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I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
— George McGovern
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You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves…
— Rick Perry
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The Winter Kate-House of Harlow 1960 customer is a multi-tasker, therefore it's important that they are able to put together an outfit with ease and…
— Nicole Richie
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Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province…
— David Rockefeller
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I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely for those with…
— Mitt Romney
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What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
— Marilyn vos Savant
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Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would…
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
— Sivananda
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My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of…
— Olivia Thirlby
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The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if…
— P D Ouspensky
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For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.
— Paul Theroux
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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MUCKY drawing I AM FeeLing completely mucky today too. everyone at school seems so much tougher + pulled together and not so emotionally involved. I…
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
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