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- Nov 07, 2020
Most Quotes
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This page collects quotes built around superlatives — including a direct critique of George W. Bush's domestic policy priorities, alongside genre-film commentary on luck and poor decision-making. For a look at priority and value elsewhere, see Important quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is all of the most highly successful scientists I know work practically all the time.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.
- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Winning takes precedence over all of it. That's the ultimate happiness. It's not location. It's not stardom. It's not 'where can I make the most money.' It's winning, and winning championships.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've certainly enjoyed doing clinic tours for larger audiences, but the most valuable teaching experience has been the hundreds of lessons that I've given where I can hear the students play.
- Nov 07, 2020
Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.
- Garry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved Garry Marshall. The television shows he created in the '80s were the most deeply important entertainment of my childhood.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Searching for alternative life on Earth might seem misconceived, because there is excellent evidence that every kind of life so far studied evolved from a common ancestor that lived billions of years ago. Yet most of the life that exists on Earth has never been properly classified.
- Denies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
- Christopher
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most female characters have either been the temptress - like a Betty Boop type - or the victim - like an Olive Oil type.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human capital of most macroeconomists, heavily invested in demand management, was wiped out by the policy failures of the 1970s.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020