Carl Clinton Van Doren Quotes
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'
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I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.
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Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade, tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world.
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The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
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I love basketball, but I miss football every time I watch it.
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The first phase of social media was listening to the conversation. The second phase was joining the conversation. The third phase will be hosting the conversation on your site.
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The major rock instruments and classical instruments were designed for performance, for sharing the music with an audience, and then later people put microphones on them and recorded them. But for electronic music, the opposite was true - they're designed in laboratories, and later, we tried to put them on stage.
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It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians.
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The Bernie ones were - they had a lot more spirit. I think we’re going to get a lot of Bernie voters, if you want to know the truth. Because they do understand that trade is killing us. Trade.
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The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
