One Thing Quotes - Page 8

• 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 a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.

  Hal David

  Falling In Love, Objectivity, Degrees

  "Music Legend Hal David Passes, But His Lyrics Still Resonate" by Brian Levin, J.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.

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• Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

  Jerry Doyle

  Poverty, Vehicle

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.

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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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• 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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• You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

  Bede Griffiths

  Mother, Children, Giving Up

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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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• If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Thinking, Example, Wasting My Time

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• The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.

  Sergio Aragones

  Book, Stories, Pages

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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 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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• One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religion, Denial, Facts

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.929, Library of Alexandria

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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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• Justice is the one thing you should always find.

  Toby Keith

  Justice, Politics, Should

  Song: Whiskey For My Men, Beer For My Horses, Album: Unleashed, 2002

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• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Risk, Lists

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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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• 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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• As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.

  Marc Faber

  Meaningful, Europe, Issues

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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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• When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

  Bruno Heller

  Cheer, Hard Times, Tvs

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