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Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
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- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something - to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We embrace the shoestring budget. We like being limited by the constraints. It inspires creativity. I don't know what we would spend money on. We don't hire actors. We see budget constraints as a personal challenge. We're like survivalist local commercial directors.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my career, I've always felt like all great things came at once, and when something goes bad, it always seems that everything else seems to start going bad.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government's instinct is to shroud itself in secrecy - to act like the office of a president instead of as a collective cabinet government held to account by the elected House of Commons.
- Understand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like John Major in her wake, Thatcher was convinced that she understood the Scots - yet couldn't understand why we remained so stubbornly resistant towards the notion of understanding her.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020