Rare Quotes
1409 Rare quotes by 1067 unique authors
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It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those…
— Jerry Greenfield
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It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has…
— Lamar Alexander
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Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.
— Wes Anderson
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Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.
— Dolly Parton
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After all, we scientific workers ... like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another electrons; and we…
— Henry Edward Armstrong
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True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an…
— Eckhart Tolle
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... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity - that…
— Parker J. Palmer
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When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.
— Matthew William Goode
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To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind…
— Ethan Hawke
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It's rare that I actually have a story in my head. I have events or 'what's the next move?' Like, Maggie, 'where's she going to…
— Jaime Hernandez
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It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.
— Tony Hale
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I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle…
— Scott Ian
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It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime…
— Steven Johnson
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It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this take and this connection, and it's…
— Fran Kranz
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Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy…
— Thomas Jefferson
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...the curious hunter-up of rare quotations... the young and struggling scribbler...
— William Francis Henry King
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Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that you'll encounter somebody…
— Barack Obama
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Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of…
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
— Alex Kapranos
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Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and vision.…
— Owen Gleiberman
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Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because…
— James Morcan
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A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.
— Alex Flinn
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
— Dick Cavett
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Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home?…
— Steven Levitt
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We can thank our lucky stars when once in a blue moon we find rare and kindred souls along the pathways of our lives.
— Laurel Burch
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