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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

Walter Mosley

Black, World, Bedtime

"In his latest mystery, Walter Mosley takes Easy to new turf, to '60s San Francisco. Far out, man." by Jason B. Johnson, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 2005.

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A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.

Warren Buffett

Opportunity, Encounters, Investing

Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team.

Mark Spitz

Sports, Real, Team

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Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- citizen of the world -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st. All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

Strobe Talbott

Country, Real, Believe

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As I've told my three daughters, all of whom I've at one time encouraged to go into macro trading, any man or woman can do anything to which they set their heart and mind.

Paul Tudor Jones

Daughter, Heart, Men

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From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.

Heather O'Neill

Heart, People, Broken

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I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.

Ben Gibbard

Baseball, Gun, Player

"Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard Has A Wicked Knuckler But Needs Some Control" by MTV, April 21, 2010.

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I suppose it is one time when you can really use your name to raise money. And if I am going to use it for anything, what more of a better opportunity (than) to use it here.

Prince Harry

Opportunity, Names, Use

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I remember one time I'm batting against the Dodgers in Milwaukee. They lead, 2 - 1, it's the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two out and the pitcher has a full count on me. I look over to the Dodger dugout and they're all in street clothes.

Bob Uecker

Two, Clothes, Looks

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When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

Zig Ziglar

Character, Business Success, Next

Zig Ziglar (2004). “Secrets of Closing the Sale”, p.190, Revell

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I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep

Nina Simone

Believe, Men, Hair

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I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'.

Rich Mullins

Thinking, Class, Meeting Someone

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One time when I was visiting The Vatican I got the Pope really drunk, and then while he was sleeping I put his hand in the holy water.

Greg Benson

Sleep, Hands, Drunk

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It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers often use the word gesturally, as a ready-made synonym for mystery. But if nature abhors a vacuum, Christ abhors a vagueness. If God is love, Christ is love for this one person, this one place, this one time-bound and time-ravaged self.

Christian Wiman

Writing, Self, People

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Years ago, when I was (at Stanford), you had maybe one or two teams -- at one time I was part of one of those teams -- you didn't have to worry about, ... Now it's not that way in the conference. A lot of the teams that were once at the bottom kind of have their games together and are making their way to the top.

Tyrone Willingham

Team, Years, Games

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It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for a fleeting moment.

Martin Esslin

Fleeting, Want, Moments

Martin Esslin (2009). “The Theatre of the Absurd”, p.16, Vintage

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One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

Bryan White

Wedding, Dresses, Serious

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Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.

Sean O'Casey

Jesus, Men, Community

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When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God - whoever He may be - has at one time or another reached my soul!...The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears.

John Haynes Holmes

Flower, Race, Dust

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One time, hey, in high school this girl told me, hey, its not you, its me.. Ofcourse its you, you dang HEFFER!

Si Robertson

Girl, School, Hey

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Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.

J. D. Greear

Prayer, Moving, Rest Of Your Life

J. D. Greear (2013). “Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved”, p.5, B&H Publishing Group

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I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear to part with because of an aesthetic or emotional attachment.

Lewis Buzbee

Book, Home, Emotional

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I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

Carter Burwell

Stars, War, Opportunity

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Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Philosophy, Ideas, Medicine

Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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One time I considered making a video game about my life where people control a character called 'Zach Braff' and run around being awesome. Then I realized that getting to pretend to be me would be like shooting up heroin for anyone who played it, and I don't want that on my conscience.

Zach Braff

Running, Character, Games

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