Articles Quotes

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

Jim Henson

Character, Information, Copies

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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

Barbra Streisand

Tired, I'm Tired, Malicious

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At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.

Dolley Madison

House, Wagons, Hours

Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

A. R. Ammons

Grateful, Mean, Textbooks

A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.

John Bates Clark

Sight, Raw Materials, Currents

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I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

Michael Pollan

Land, Development, Way

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I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

Anthony Holden

Book, Thinking, Literature

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After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

Kenzaburo Oe

War, Forever, World

"Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1994.

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This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Pride, Awards, Joy

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So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.

Dennis Bergkamp

Sports, Player, Numbers

Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

Judith Krantz

Fashion, Jobs, Writing

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What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

Erykah Badu

Somewhere Else, Interviews, Furious

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I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

Claude Chabrol

Wall, War, Fall

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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

George Santayana

Small Changes, Hype, Currency

George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.110, 谷月社

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The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves.

Dwight Schultz

New York, Thinking, Opposites

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That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

Jon Postel

Interesting, Magazines, Computer

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Thomas Jefferson

Book, 4th Of July, Men

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.210, Cosimo, Inc.

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Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Thomas Huxley

Purpose, Credit, Moral

Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “Readings from Huxley”

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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

John Ruskin

Men, Trade, Live By

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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Michel de Montaigne

Inspirational, Faith, Thinking

"The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, p.104, 1989.

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If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

Willie Stargell

Sports, Writing, Shows

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So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.

Neil Gaiman

Yearbook, Artist, Phones

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What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

Alanis Morissette

Mind, Trying, Never Quit

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I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

Albert Ellis

Years, Listening, Six

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Ross Perot

Cutting, Brain, Economy

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