Tends Quotes
707 quotes by 598 authors
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Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.
— Helen Fielding
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The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.
— Holbrook Jackson
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My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends…
— Jean Paul Gaultier
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Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.
— Herb Caen
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There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys…
— Lord Acton
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The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen.…
— Albert Ellis
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Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores…
— Evita Peron
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Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing…
— Sean O'Casey
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Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in…
— Milton Sapirstein
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Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go…
— Walter Benjamin
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Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human…
— Jacques Maritain
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My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father,…
— Mark Leyner
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When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a…
— Mark Leyner
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There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.
— Chris O'Dowd
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Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools.
— William C. Brown
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My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to…
— Aaron Levie
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No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes…
— Arthur Lydiard
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Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.
— Cat Power
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Your hair tends to get used to the product you use. Every month or so I change it out.
— Sasha Pieterse
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Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it…
— Andy Partridge
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