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464 quotesMarrying into money was not a good thing for me.
Marriage
Anna Nicole Smith
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Politicians and Politics
Socrates
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
Cinema
Oliver Stone
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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
Love Ended
J. August Strindberg
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I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
Sensuality
Charles Sumner
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Kisses and Kissing
Jonathan Swift
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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
Risk
Jonathan Swift
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
Communism and Socialism
A. J. P. Taylor
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No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
Poetry and Poets
Sir William Temple
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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
America
Margaret Thatcher
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A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.
Laughter
Puzant Kevork Thomajan
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If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Norman Thomas
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He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.
Attitude
James Thurber
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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
Character
James Thurber
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So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand.
Plagiarism
Peter Townsend
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Acting and Actors
Spencer Tracy
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The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
Procrastination
Dawson Trotman
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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Truth
Harry S Truman
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I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
Tycoons
Donald Trump
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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Critics and Criticism
Ted Turner
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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
Lies and Lying
Mark Twain
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Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
Family
Mark Twain
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
World
Mark Twain
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I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Evolution
Mark Twain
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I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
Fools and Foolishness
Mark Twain
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun