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• We don't know what will happen tomorrow, but one thing is guaranteed-God's overarching care for His children. We can be sure enough of that. In a world where nothing is sure, He is sure.

  David Jeremiah

  Children, World, Care

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• One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Suffering, Principles, Purpose

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• Let me get one thing straight; I'm not an authority on sex, I'm more of a fan. I think sex is nice; no family should be without it. Of course, there are other things that are just as important as sex, like uh . . . like uh . . . like . . . uh . . . well, I'll think of it later.

  George Burns

  Funny, Sex, Nice

  George Burns (1989). “How to live to be 100--or more: the ultimate diet, sex, and exercise book”, Plume

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• The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Media, Clay

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Answers, Novel

  Joan Didion (1984). “Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations”

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• The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

  Gene Weingarten

  Writing, Thinking, Aspiring Writers

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• To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

  Dennis Hopper

  Documentaries, Film, Features

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

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• Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!

  William Morris Hunt

  Rose, Trying, Painting

  William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

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• In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

  Charles Portis

  Culture, Clubs, West

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• There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

  Elizabeth I

  World, Causes, Royalty

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• My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Thinking, Opposites, Next Day

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• The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.

  Larry Kramer

  Media, America, People

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• Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

  Vash Young

  Facts, Chance, Bigs

  Vash Young (2009). “A Fortune to Share”, p.50, Lulu.com

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• Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

  Katarina Witt

  Block, Goal, Focus

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• One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

  John Grisham

  Watches, Soapbox, Want

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• A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

  Arthur Keith

  Men, Drunkards

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

  Dave Eggers

  Want, Computer, Online

  "Dave Eggers on his favorite things about newspapers" by Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 05, 2010.

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• It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Should

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• My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.

  Victoria Justice

  Family, Successful, Numbers

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• If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.

  Julian Baggini

  Fun, Two, Cynical

  "In praise of cynicism" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• I would get very bored if I just did one thing.

  Alexa Chung

  Bored, Ifs

  "Alexa Chung For L'Oréal Professionnel INOA". Interview with Lisa Niven, www.vogue.co.uk. February 22, 2013.

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• I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Cooking, Brain, Rooms

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• New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

  Lawrence Block

  New York, Dirty, Home

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• Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

  Edward Burns

  Dad, Cop, Wells

  Interview with Maya Singer, www.ign.com. March 9, 2001.

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• One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Writing, Music Is, Basic Things

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