One Thing Quotes - Page 27

• Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Desire, Common, Easy

  "The Perfect Mark" by Mitchell Zuckoff, www.newyorker.com. May 15, 2006.

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• One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.

  John Badham

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

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• If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!

  Dana Hill

  Mean, Cutting, Winning

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• The number one thing I've been doing is being daddy.

  Austin Peck

  Numbers, Daddy

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• I'd much rather do one or two takes of one thing and then see how it goes.

  Rider Strong

  Two

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 11, 2003.

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• Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

  Robert Harbison

  Mean, Men, Garden

  Robert Harbison (1977). “Eccentric Spaces”, p.20, MIT Press

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• The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

  Forrest Church

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Love and Death". Book by Forrest Church, www.washingtonpost.com. September 2008.

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• The one thing we can count on is that time will pass; day will become night, and the sunrise will bring with it a new tomorrow. What you are doing with these precious moments TODAY is creating your tomorrow. How you spend today is the greatest measure of who you are becoming, and the life you will be living. My question to you is: what will YOU do today to become the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you deserve?

  Hal Elrod

  Night, Thinking, Creating

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• One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you don't talk to the animals, they won't talk back to you, then you won't understand, and when you don't understand you will fear, and when you fear you will destroy the animals, and if you destroy the animals, you will destroy yourself.

  Chief Dan George

  Native American, Animal, Remember

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• The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by water, by the earth and its resources. And to whom was the sun given? To everyone. If there is any one thing that people do have in common, it is the gift of sunlight. But as the early Christians said, "If the sun were not hung so high, someone would have claimed it long ago."

  Eberhard Arnold

  Christian, Air, Long Ago

  Eberhard Arnold, Johann Christoph Arnold (2000). “Eberhard Arnold: Writings Selected with an Introduction”, p.94, The Plough Publishing House

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• Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.

  Daniel Botkin

  Two, People, Environmental

  Daniel Botkin (2012). “The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered”, p.324, Oxford University Press

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• I should say, the one thing you run into is, if you're trying to raise a round you have to decide, well, how much money are you trying to raise? And then you have to justify that to your investors, because they want to know why you [are] raising that much? Why aren't you raising either twice as much or half as much?

  David Plotz

  Running, Trying, Half

  "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music that's people continue to take really personally.

  J. Robbins

  People, Brazil, Really Cool

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Thinking, Past

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 23, 2007.

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• One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it's both the brain and the heart.

  Robert Reich

  Heart, Years, People

  "Robert Reich: Making people laugh about economic inequality". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.

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• It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

  Seneca the Younger

  Writing, Thinking, Deceit

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• The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Regret, Ambition, Men

  "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1860.

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• One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

  Quintilian

  Natural, Capacity, Efficacy

  Quintilian (1805). “Quintilian's institutes of eloquence ...”, p.7

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• It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

  Quintilian

  Long, Easier, Variety

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• One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Forever

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Рипол Классик

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• The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Pure, Worth Living

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• All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inability, Rooms, Unhappiness

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• It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Men, Views, Matter

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.150, Transaction Publishers

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• There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Liberty, Should, Submit

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• It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.

  William Godwin

  Children, Inspire, Mind

  William Godwin (1797). “The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays”, p.78

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