Courses Quotes - Page 25

Of course everybodys thinking evolves over time.

Meles Zenawi

Thinking, Evolve

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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

Edmund White

Success, Boys, Stories

The Review of Contemporary Fiction Intreview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1996.

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When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.

Benjamin Franklin

Writing, Opposites, Two

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I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s not for everyone...But I lived in that world, not only during my years in the magazines business but for years before, because I was always of that world-- at least in my imagination.

Diana Vreeland

Fashion, Years, Luxury

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I was once all by myself in a house on Fire Island. Where I compared the original cast recordings of two different versions of The Wild Party. A helicopter should have descended and taken me away to a gay penal colony. But of course, I was already there.

Paul Rudnick

Party, Taken, Gay

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God... has a pencil with an eraser on it and he has promised us that he will use it if we will repent and change our ways…He has said that if we would forsake our evil and thoroughly make up our minds against it, then he would wash it out of his mind and just forget the whole thing. Of course, he expects that we will wash it out of our minds also.

Sterling W Sill

Evil, Mind, Use

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Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.

Payne Stewart

Sports, Golf, One Day

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Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

Marilyn Hacker

Writing, Creative, United States

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Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Dalai Lama

People, Acting, Human Nature

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When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Men, Years, Interest

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.111, Modern Library

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Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?

Ajahn Chah

Giving, Meditation, Battle

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It is important to explain fully to the local areas with sincerity. We will also think, of course, about the development promotion of the communities.

Shinzo Abe

Thinking, Community, Important

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I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat the golf course. If I prepared myself for a major, went in focused, and then beat the golf course, the rest took care of itself.

Jack Nicklaus

Golf, Player, Thinking

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If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.

Jack Nicklaus

Beach, Play, World

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The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Powerful, People, Agents

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Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

Renata Adler

Love You, Sleep, Insomnia

Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.

Julia Glass

Dog, Training, Personal Question

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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

J. B. Priestley

Fire, Order, Sound

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Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don’t get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.

Jessica Valenti

Drinking, Independent, Drug

Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.151, Seal Press

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There's been times when I've been in really tough shape at the top of the course. Talk about a hard challenge right there. I mean, if you ever tried to ski when you're wasted, it's not easy. Try and ski a slalom when … you hit a gate less than every one a second, so it's risky, you know. You're putting your life at risk there. It's like driving drunk only there's no rules about it in ski racing.

Bode Miller

Mean, Drunk, Challenges

"Miller on the carpet over drink-and-ski interview". Interview With Erica Bulman, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2006.

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Of course, the strippers also take pains not to appear too innocent, valorous, or bookishly inclined. (In direct opposition to the Swayze Mandate of 1987, everybody puts Baby in a goddamn corner.)

Diablo Cody

Baby, Pain, Innocent

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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

Antonio Tabucchi

Teacher, Views, Hygiene

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Run your own race at an even pace. Consider the course, the temperature, the weather, and most importantly, your current level of fitness.

Marty Liquori

Running, Race, Weather

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I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will carry over onto the golf course. If I can get that feeling of quiet and obliviousness within myself, I feel I can't lose.

Jane Blalock

Golf, Peaceful, Feelings

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Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me

Kevin Mitnick

Hate, People, Half

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