Things Like Quotes
943 quotes by 826 authors
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The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate…
— Timothy Keller
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During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own…
— Jean Piaget
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I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.
— Geezer Butler
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I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed - things like…
— Wynton Marsalis
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She sang a lot of songs. 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' and things like that. But the one she was really good at singing…
— Bobby Petrino
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The first music I bought when I was nine or 10 was pop music from the '50s and '60s, like The Everly Bros., Elvis, Del…
— Will Oldham
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I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that,…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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I stand by this man (President George W. Bush). I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands…
— Stephen Colbert
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Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible…
— Deborah Pryce
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I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It…
— Jack White
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I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather…
— Bill Gates
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Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't…
— Bill Gates
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It is not my place to make judgments about the behavior of any other footballer. Cars and women, things like that, have never been important…
— Kaka
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If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but because literature can…
— Lorin Stein
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I mean, if we're regulating cigarettes and sex and cuss words, because of the effect they have on our younger generation, why aren't we regulating…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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Sex can lead to nasty things like herpes, gonorrhea, and something called relationships.
— Sacha Baron Cohen
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Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not…
— Alexander Grothendieck
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The TV licence people just can't believe we don't have a television. I'm a bolshie git. I shout at them things like, 'I don't need…
— Julian Cope
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I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him [when he was…
— B B King
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... I think the idea of crossing over is the ultimate expression of being ... Maybe it's time to play rock and roll on disco…
— Jeff Baxter
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