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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. Muhammad Iqbal
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Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on. Campbell Scott
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Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. Eugene Ionesco
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Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol' freakin' leopard shark... I'm looking at him and I'm thinking, 'OK, he won't hurt me. Timothy Olyphant
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Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator. Simon Cowell
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? Stendhal
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She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing. Cheryl Tiegs
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Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one. Natalie du Toit
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Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy. Lynn Abbey
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space? Valentina Tereshkova
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One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar. Clive Sinclair
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One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red. Method Man
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One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.' Gian Carlo Menotti
novelists
One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like. Leslie Fiedler
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. Ramakrishna
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One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music. Pitbull
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One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst. Kara Hayward
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One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for my mother when she was dying really helped me get through that hard time. Maria Shriver
competition beats competitors
One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition. Edwin Moses
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One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Tim Holden
Top Positive quotes
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One of the advantages of having to live with JUnit for 8 years is now we can look back and see which decisions we made worked nicely and which we would have done differently. Kent Beck
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One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was. Kate Klise
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One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations. Brian Behlendorf
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One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or something like that, and start advertising or selling things. This etiquette rule is an attempt to separate one's social life, which should be pure enjoyment and relaxation, from the pressures of work. Judith Martin
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One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind? Robert Gottlieb
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believe effort important
One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled. Rex Stout
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One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious. Hannah Murray
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One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences. Raymond E. Feist
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant
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One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door! Quentin Bryce
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises. Bill Keller
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program. Karen Mills
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One of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water, and lush vegetation, this tiny green swath of land is my idea of paradise. Nina Garcia
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. E. B. White
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One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost never read it. It would be like sitting at their dinner table and opening a packet of sandwiches. Simon Hoggart
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One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so. Bobby Scott
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One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We simply cannot be good writers and good people. One must be able to access one's darkest self, one's venality and pettiness and murderousness. Russell Smith
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One of the things about working on stage - actually, about working in show business, that is - is that it's such a collaborative effort. I suppose that everything in life is - every endeavor where people are able to be successful. Gregory Hines
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One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality. Justin Cronin
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One of the things I loved about working on 'Portal' was that we'd get emails from people saying, 'I love to play first-person shooters but my girlfriend won't play them with me. But I got her to play 'Portal' and she had a blast.' Kim Swift
Top Love quotes
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One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate. Carla Gugino
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One of the things I say is from an evolutionary point of view: probably the ideal rich environment for a baby includes more mud, livestock, and relatives than most of us could tolerate nowadays. Alison Gopnik
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One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief. Gwen Ifill
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One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private. Graham Swift
continuing work
One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better. Eric Shanteau
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companies
One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public. Irving Kirsch
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot. F. H. Bradley
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One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. Charles Horton Cooley
men people ability
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there. Bob Edwards
people feds repetition
People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular. Jean Paul Gaultier
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