One Thing Quotes - Page 20

• There's only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living.

  Evan Esar

  Work

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• If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.

  Roger Ebert

  Eye, Gypsy, I've Learned

  Roger Ebert's review of "Drag Me to Hell", www.rogerebert.com. June 3, 2009.

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• My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your mother for one day?" I then take it from there. Each book takes several months in the long process of writing, rewriting, writing, rewriting, and each has its own set of problems. The one thing I dislike about the writing process is the sometimes-loneliness of it all. Readers only get to see the glamour part of a bound book, not some of the agonizing moments one has while constructing it.

  Mary Rodgers

  Mother, Loneliness, Book

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• A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

  Tahir Shah

  Pain, Secret, Passionate

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.92, Lulu.com

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• I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.

  Jessie J

  Hurt, Pain, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I've learnt one thing, it's that I need to surround myself with people who want to know the real Pete Wentz, not some myth they've concocted from a bunch of press clippings. I can open the door a centimetre wide, and some people think I'm showing them the whole room. But all they're getting is a glimpse. That's all I want to show most people.

  Pete Wentz

  Real, Thinking, Doors

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• Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.

  Jason Reitman

  Growing Up, Yoga, People

  "Jason Reitman: 'Growing up sucks, doesn't it?'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

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• As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Contentment, Way, Sometimes

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”, p.131

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• A new study found that a mother's diet affects her baby's allergies. Which can only mean one thing: My mom ate cats.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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• When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

  Frank Herbert

  Opposites, Creatures

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.109, Penguin

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• War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.

  Susan Sontag

  War, Years, Long

  "Why Are We in Kosovo?" by Susan Sontag, www.nytimes.com. May 2, 1999.

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• I think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise they really were. As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that. I had different opinions on a lot of different things then them but the way they raised me, in hindsight, they were right.

  Tiger Woods

  Wise, Growing Up, Kids

  "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 6, 2002.

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• There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony, that delivers it from insignificance. All will be great, nothing will be overpowering, when, living in communion with Jesus Christ, we say as He says, "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Meat, Deeds

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: third series”, p.282

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• If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it; but I do not overlook the fact, that Art is one thing, another thing Amusement; and that people do like amusements, and will run after it.

  George Henry Lewes

  Running, Art, Believe

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• You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

  Edwin Land

  Splits, Moments, Composition

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• The Sun-Paul must consider only one thing: what is the relation of this or that external reaction of the animal to the phenomena of the external world?

  Ivan Pavlov

  Animal, World, Sun

  "Scientific Study of So-Called Psychical Processes in the Higher Animals". Book by Ivan Pavlov, 1906.

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• The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!

  Hermann Goring

  Goering, Jew

  Speech in Vienna after the Austrian Anschluss, 1938. Testimony in the Imperial War Museum, Folio 645, Box 156, pp. 5-6, October 20, 1945.

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• Saying it is one thing. Doing it is very different.

  Milton Friedman

  Different

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, "We're not gonna be friends until we get this done. If we don't get this done, we're never going to be friends, because if we don't get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed."

  Bill Murray

  Jobs, People, Together

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The one thing I will never do is buy a shirt because of its name, especially when it's $600 for that shirt. To me, that's ridiculous. It's just a shirt; it's not worth the money.

  Macklemore

  Names, Ridiculous, T Shirt

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm pretty much a movie-to-movie guy. It's hard for me to multitask so I feel very one-thing-at-a-time oriented and I usually just wait until a movie's done and it's premiered, then just kind of reflect on what I'm interested in my own life and let the movies come to me rather than force them.

  Drake Doremus

  Guy, Waiting, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm kind of ADD. So I try to do one thing at a time. Otherwise, I would be sort of scattered and won't be 100% where I need to be for certain things.

  Drake Doremus

  Trying, Would Be, Add

  Source: collider.com

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• In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy.

  Anne Lamott

  Facts, Energy, Made

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We're all going to face extreme stress in our lives, there's no one who is going to escape that. That's the one thing, rich or poor, I don't care who you are, you're going to lose.

  Tony Robbins

  Stress, Rich Or Poor, Care

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Melting, Want, Able

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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