So-Called Quotes
185 So-Called quotes by 177 unique authors
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It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the…
— Pat Robertson
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Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which…
— Salman Rushdie
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There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes…
— Stan Sakai
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I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much…
— Jerry Saltz
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the…
— Hu Shih
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If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for…
— Lysander Spooner
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I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.
— Kristen Stewart
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I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics,…
— Lewis Thomas
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
— Henry A. Wallace
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I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The…
— Ai Weiwei
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Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want…
— Robert Winston
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In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
— Carter G. Woodson
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The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked…
— Carter G. Woodson
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The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
— Zhang Yimou
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White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.
— Michael Eric Dyson
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Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Too often, young people who are just bursting with idealism either find themselves playing a game for which they have little heart or are hurling…
— George W. Romney
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I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
— Brene Brown
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