One Thing Quotes - Page 22

• Goals keep you motivated and they give you a direction. That way you're not just aimlessly training and doing too much of one thing and not enough of another.

  Helen Jenkins

  Giving, Goal, Training

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.

  Ann Druyan

  Technology, Thinking, Decision

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson and Executive Producer Ann Druyan Talk COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY, Public Appetite for Science, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 17, 2014.

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• Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a quality that's underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges.

  Barack Obama

  Persistence, Challenges, President

  "Mitt Romney and Barack Obama talk leadership in dueling 60 Minutes interviews". www.cbsnews.com. September 24, 2012.

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• One thing I've always been grateful for is the diversity of my listeners.

  Donnie Simpson

  Grateful, Diversity, Listeners

  "Special guest Donnie Simpson, more on Pop Culture With Paul Farhi". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. February 2, 2010.

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• We know next to nothing about the relationship between Chavez and Raul Castro. One thing, though, is certain. The Cuban military and political elite do not regard Chavez as a logical successor to Fidel Castro in Latin America.

  Mark Falcoff

  Military, Latin, America

  "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

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• The one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope.

  Max Lucado

  Each Day

  "Max Lucado, Christian Author, Answers Twitter Followers’ Questions". Religion News Service Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2012.

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• When you look back at the fight against Communism, one thing that is striking is the degree to which we [the United States] were carried on by our own values. One of the real challenges of the new era is going to be to maintain those values and not adopt those of our adversaries.

  David E. Hoffman

  Real, Fighting, Challenges

  "Ronald Reagan Dies". Live Discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 6, 2004.

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• That's one thing about me, and I think that's what most of my fans enjoy about me, that I don't hold nothing back. I do exactly what I want to do, and say exactly what I want to say.

  Lil Wayne

  Thinking, Fans, Want

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, Paris Hilton, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2011.

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• All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

  Anne Carson

  Mean, Two, Patterns

  Anne Carson (2009). “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”, p.31, Vintage

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• I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.

  Robert E. Howard

  Kids, Thinking, Oil

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.493, Del Rey

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• With the disintegration of all that [Nietzsche] had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition.

  Karl Jaspers

  Limits, Path, Desert

  Karl Jaspers (1997). “Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity”, p.45, JHU Press

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• When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic.

  Eva LaRue

  Disappear, Used, Ends

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• The crusade is never off my mind - the exercise I do, the food I eat, the thought I think - all this and how I can help make my profession better-respected. To me, this one thing - physical culture and nutrition - is the salvation of America.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Thinking, America

  "Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement" by Claudia Luther, www.latimes.com. January 23, 2011.

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• I have one thing in my mind. How can I get people to start taking care of themselves? That's all I think about.

  Jack LaLanne

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.

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• The apocalypse is coming, that's the one thing I like about George Bush, I really think he can get us into the ... apocalypse, like the BIBLICAL ... I really think he believes that he'll be the guy in the white hat. I think he's read the Stephen King novel The Stand a couple times, and he really thinks there's a dark man in the desert somewhere and he's gonna fight him or something.

  Patton Oswalt

  Kings, Couple, Believe

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• Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that's I love you.

  Andy Partridge

  Love You, Pounds, May

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• Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you got another silly question?

  John Prescott

  Silly, Hair, Wife

  "Prescott walks it like he talks it". news.bbc.co.uk. September 30, 1999.

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• To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind's eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Eye, Dark, Mind

  Gilbert Ryle (2009). “The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.223, Routledge

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• The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Religious, Order, Political

  "Imaginationland". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. October 25, 2007.

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• The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.

  John Searle

  Mean, Speech, Problem

  "Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts". Book by John Searle, 1979.

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• Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves.

  Jose Saramago

  Prayer, Mysterious Things, Heaven

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• One thing about a police state, you can always find the police.

  L. Neil Smith

  Police, Nazi, Authority

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• I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be focused on writing novels. It's one of the real advantages I've had over the years. I've only been good at one thing. It helps to be limited.

  Markus Zusak

  Real, Writing, Years

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• Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at it, all nationalism contains elements of both, but Scotland is very far on the civic end of the spectrum. That is partly because nobody has ever been stupid enough to say that Scotland is an ethnicity in a genetic sense. A kingdom of Scotland existed long before anybody talked of a Scottish people. So that is one thing we have been spared.

  Neal Ascherson

  Stupid, Ethnicity, Scotland

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• I have always really liked Tom Jones and I can't wait to see him in action. One thing is for sure, I would rather be singing for a living than getting punched on the head.

  Ricky Hatton

  Waiting, Singing, Action

  "Ricky Hatton's $40 Million Net Worth". www.gamblingdeals.com. May 16, 2016.

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