Lasts Quotes
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I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.
Daniel Johns Silverchair -
The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.
William Wells Brown
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I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
Iain Banks -
You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.
Melissa Manchester -
Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.
William S. Cohen -
This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.
Abhinav Bindra -
The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.
Chalmers Johnson -
And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.
Tom Stoppard
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Fight to the last gasp.
William Shakespeare -
I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last century. It had to. America could not become America until it dealt with that. And did it deal with it perfectly? No. But it had to confront it.
Van Jones -
The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it.
Ian Chappell -
'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.'
E. M. Forster -
Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came.
Jay-Z -
I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest in the problem wanes.
Pablo Picasso
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I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.
William Petersen -
In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.
H. G. Wells -
I beat myself off 17 times in one day. That's the worst beating I've ever handed out. I was so sore that it was hard to get that last load out.
James Owen Sullivan Avenged Sevenfold -
You're only as good as your last book.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.
William Herschel -
Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.
George Washington
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Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.
Karl Lagerfeld -
They played exquisite basketball in this series and in particular these last three games. They are the better team. There is no other way to say it. They played great basketball, and we couldn't respond to it.
Erik Spoelstra -
Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.
Stephen Sondheim -
Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.
Juan Rulfo