They Kept Quotes
85 quotes by 82 authors
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My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' called and offered me a cover just like that.…
— Pamela Anderson
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When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
— Marilyn French
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I was always prepared for my 'Fringe' journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role but they kept bringing me…
— Seth Gabel
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Remember the Three Princes of Serendip who went out looking for treasure? They didn't find what they were looking for, but they kept finding things…
— George W. Bush
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All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.
— Willie Pep
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On the first day of middle school I wore high-heeled shoes that you weren't allowed to wear. I remember being so embarrassed because in every…
— Emma Stone
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When I was a sophomore, a friend asked me to go to a local acting seminar with him. Two guys were very interested in me…
— Jensen Ackles
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There were nine children in my fathers family and eight in my mothers. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression,…
— Cheryl Ladd
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I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell…
— Colin Quinn
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The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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They kept saying 'It's sushi-grade!' And I'm like... 'Put some soy sauce on this. Get me some rice. And cook it. And then get me…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to…
— Vladimir Putin
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Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless…
— Thomas Gray
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This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another…
— Tim Maleeny
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I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had…
— P D Ouspensky
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I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element.…
— Elena Mukhina
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Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of…
— Mark Twain
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Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.
— Art Linkletter
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Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and…
— Herodotus
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