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6885 quotes by 4499 authors
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You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was…
— James Madison
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But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in…
— Warren Zevon
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One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The most fundamental paradox is that, if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We…
— Ronald Reagan
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The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but…
— Barney Frank
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Success in your life is not a single achievement. It's all that you do with others and for others
— Phil Harding
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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death…
— Charles Dickens
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By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could…
— Steve Earle
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The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single…
— Vince Gill
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To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play…
— Kevin Spacey
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Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a…
— Everette Lee DeGolyer
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There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.
— Diane Setterfield
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People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze…
— Nathaniel Philbrick
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I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more on a single…
— David Massengill
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I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He…
— Lin Yutang
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The difference of a single day is perceptible. Vegetables can only be tasted in perfection, gathered the same day.
— John Pintard
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It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have no other interest…
— Steven Morrissey
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As for Israel, our friendship is rooted deeply in a shared history and shared values. Our commitment to Israel's security is unshakeable. And we will…
— Barack Obama
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In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a…
— Strobe Talbott
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It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his…
— Eydie Gorme
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