You Read Quotes
667 You Read quotes by 526 unique authors
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Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in quiet,…
— Thomas Raymond Kelly
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The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it…
— Will Rogers
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Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.
— Will Rogers
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You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The…
— Will Rogers
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Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes, sit out in…
— Will Rogers
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When you read Boethius and some of the Renaissance philosophers, they talk a lot about the other spheres. There's a music of the spheres. There's…
— Frederick Lenz
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You read the past in some old faces.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I can't imagine myself doing something like 'Narnia' again. I would love to do something with Ridley Scott, you know, some action/adventure or something like…
— William Moseley
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Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms or panics, the…
— Edwin Lefevre
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When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am. Why I'm here.…
— Matt de la Pena
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If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons.…
— Julian Assange
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I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write…
— Charles de Lint
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It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the…
— Madame de Stael
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People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
— Doris Lessing
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Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out…
— Bill Vaughan
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I've heard it quoted that I was dead. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now…
— Tom Lehrer
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You read something and you just feel this makes sense. And sometimes before you even read it you have a feeling that yeah, I'm probably…
— Billy Bob Thornton
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I've grown up playing pop music for the experimental crowd and I always feel like I'm pushing something weird on people. I had this underdog…
— Girl Talk
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The most frustrating things is when you read something that has so much potential, but there are other little red flags where you think, I…
— Anna Kendrick
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Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in…
— Jonah Goldberg
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Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot…
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
— Daniel Craig
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
— Jamie Dimon
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