One Thing Quotes - Page 13

• I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.

  Vince Cable

  Father, Air, Views

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• One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Angel, Risk, Lucky

  "Summly creator Nick D'Aloisio: 'I try to maintain a level of humbleness'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

  Dave Davies

  Thinking, Weakness, Want

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• For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is interpreted as profound, and in my work for years I've really tried to deal with subjects that are substantial, not just fluffy, but presented in a more playful, approachable kind of way.

  Ellen Forney

  Art, Pain, Thinking

  "Interview: Ellen Forney on Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and 'Marbles'". Interview with Eddie Wright, www.mtv.com. November 28, 2012.

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• One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don't like traveling. I feel like it's a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion.

  Joshua Ferris

  Failing, Terrible, Conclusion

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• I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

  Sky Ferreira

  Writing, Different, Type

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The number one thing I look for in a man is integrity. A man who does what he says he's going to do.

  Summer Glau

  Integrity, Men, Numbers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

  Jeff Goodell

  Giving Up, Believe, America

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• My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mom, Jobs, Nuts

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• As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.

  Marla Gibbs

  Horizon, Want, Intention

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better, but things could always be worse.

  Marla Gibbs

  Complaining

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• One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Past, Violence, Kind

  "Our media must give Muslims the chance to debate with each other" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. February 09, 2006.

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• I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.

  Atom Egoyan

  Mean, Actors, May

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Artist, Thinking, Open Minded

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

  Bobby Fischer

  School, Remember

  "Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, harpers.org. January 1962.

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• Sometimes the very thing you're looking for is the one thing you cannot see.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  Relationship, Sometimes

  Song: Save the Best for Last, Album: The Comfort Zone

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• Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Calendars, Given

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• There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.

  Allan Sherman

  Daughter, Brother, Book

  Song: Pop Hates The Beatles

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• If you fall, the truth will set you free. And when your heart can see just one thing in this life, we'll set out on the journey.

  Gerry Rafferty

  Inspirational, Fall, Heart

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• I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

  Jackie Cooper

  Directors, Wells

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• The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. [...] Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. [...] The banking system in China is extremely fragile.

  James Chanos

  Thinking, People, Chinese

  "JIM CHANOS: I Visited Hong Kong And Australia, And This Is What I Saw" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.

  Michael Chang

  Past, Opportunity, Thinking

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• One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.

  Faith Ford

  Kids, Responsibility, Animal

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• Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

  Maureen Forrester

  Spiritual, Gone, Mahler

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• Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

  Josh Gad

  Taken, Joy, Hollywood

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