Read Quotes
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Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing a seamless mix of personal anecdotes, hard evidence and all-too-often-underrated subjective admonitions, Bogle challenges each of us to aspire to become better members of our families, our professions and our communities. Rarely do so few pages provoke so much thought. Read this book.
David F. Swensen
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I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.
Adeline Yen Mah
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Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.
Cotton Mather
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If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.
Alicia Keys
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How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole thing." "Have you read it?" "No, I haven't been in jail, or had to hide out for a long time. Someone once said unless you have those kinds of opportunities, you can't read the whole of Proust.
Haruki Murakami
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Isn't this more about how two people can read a situation in two completely different ways? I've been resisting the urge to build castles in the air, like I always do, and you just saw whatever it was that you wanted to see.
Catherine Sanderson
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Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
Alan Cumming
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It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
Seth Godin
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Ever read any Friedrich Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually dog-eared my copy. I ended up going back through it and writing a précis, I was so impressed by this book. It's all about what happens when government tries to make everything right.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.
Drew Carey
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What you read when you don't have to...
Oscar Wilde
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Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
Walker Percy
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If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.
David Warlick
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School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
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A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
Albert Camus
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I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.
Michael Jackson
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You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.
Ernie Els
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I read poetry to save time.
Marilyn Monroe
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I do know one thing: it's best not to read the Internet.
Joel Edgerton
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I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Remember, acting is not a business of glamour. It is science, craft and an art. Read about acting; don't do it for the sake of fun. Actors such as Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah are great examples; they are surviving only because they have read well.
Boman Irani
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Anything you read about him, multiply it by two.
Doug Morris