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464 quotesI have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
Temper
Ezra Pound
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
Race and Racism
Ezra Pound
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I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
Want
Ray Prince
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Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love.
Absence
Proverb
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Rome was not built in a day.
Patience
Proverb
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I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
Acting and Actors
Nancy Reagan
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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
War
Ronald Reagan
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Youth
Arthur Rimbaud
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When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.
Vocation
Molly Ringwald
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There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
Comedy and Comedians
Joan Rivers
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Experience
Auguste Rodin
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There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Experts
Will Rogers
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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Action
Theodore Roosevelt
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I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
Talent
Mickey Rourke
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Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up.
Opponents
Edmund Rouse
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it
Children
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Ability
John Ruskin
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
Fishing
John Ruskin
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The best work never was and never will be done for money.
Work
John Ruskin
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Opinions
Bertrand Russell
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Time and Time Management
Bertrand Russell
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The farther west he went the more he was convinced that the wise men came from the east.
Pioneer
Horace Russell
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
Mothers
Olive Schreiner
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.
Change
Robert H. Schuller
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The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.
Translation
Leonardo Sciascia
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun