Stopped Quotes
1845 quotes by 1395 authors
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire…
— Roland Barthes
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I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture…
— Duane Michals
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One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize…
— Jack Dee
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I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.
— Jane Lynch
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The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan?…
— Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal…
— Patrick McHenry
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I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted…
— Jimmy Nail
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I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I…
— Meshell Ndegeocello
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My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death,…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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Every major industry was once a growth industry. But some that are now riding a wave of growth enthusiasm are very much in the shadow…
— Theodore Levitt
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I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job…
— Robert Quine
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Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want…
— Sally Quinn
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Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for…
— Brent Runyon
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I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.
— Matthew Rhys
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I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually…
— Eddie Redmayne
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Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is…
— John Shelton Reed
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One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.
— Chesley Sullenberger
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I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game…
— Emanuel Steward
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I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.
— Amy Smart
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