Possibly Quotes
1640 quotes by 1310 authors
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It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil…
— Edward Hopper
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best…
— Tab Hunter
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It just seemed too weird to me. I don't know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents' apartment. I…
— Marc Jacobs
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Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or…
— William James
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Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems…
— Edward Kennedy
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No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous?…
— Michio Kaku
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Not to be too detailed, but I've had an ectopic pregnancy, miscarriages and I've had fertility treatments. I've done all the stuff you can possibly…
— Nicole Kidman
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Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
— Charles Krauthammer
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It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.
— Charles Krauthammer
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
— Imre Lakatos
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The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform,…
— Adam Lambert
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I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where…
— Anne Lamott
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I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that…
— Hugh Laurie
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My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.
— Denis Leary
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
— Fran Lebowitz
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong,…
— Tanith Lee
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People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a…
— Vivien Leigh
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Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
— Aldo Leopold
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
— Sam Levenson
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'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days…
— Carl Lewis
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