Wordgrove Post & Review

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~New York Times

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THIS EDITION: price

Quoted in The Grove:
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you’re willing to pay the price.
~Mary Kay Ash

Everything is for sale if the price is right.
~Lucio Tan

The pain is not about having cheap people around, real pain is the fact that there are some people with a price to start with.
~Sameh Elsayed

EndQuote:
If life is not an adventure it’s a sad venture, and drear at the price. After all life is after all; it is not what you make it, but what it makes you.
~Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander

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Exercise Prompt for 12/19: cycle

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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.
~John Ruskin

Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn’t exist.
~Howard Hughes

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
~Oscar Wilde

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
~Adlai Stevenson

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Life teaches us that we are never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
~Anatole France

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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
~Douglas Coupland

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Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.
Alija Izetbegovic

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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
~Francis Bacon

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I’ve got personal views on the ’60s. You can’t have freedom without paying the price for it.
~James Lovelock

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I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini.
~Karan Johar

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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
~Branch Rickey

Problems are the price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
~Charles Kettering

The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.
~Charles Erwin Wilson

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
~Zig Ziglar

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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
~Pablo Picasso

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Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that ‘things will come to you,’ it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.
~Orison Swett Marden

There is a price to pay for accomplishment.
~Edwin Louis Cole

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
~Baltasar Gracian

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Nothing good ever happens by itself ‒ it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.
~Antonio Munoz Molina

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
~Orison Swett Marden

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
~William J H Boetcker

Success doesn’t demand a price. Every step forward pays a dividend.
~David Joseph Schwartz

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We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.
~Bill Williams

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The problem with faerie gifts is that they always come with a price, which is why they are made by the desperate and the foolish.
~Holly Black

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There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it’s getting.
~Terry McMillan

Ruining someone else’s life for attention or revenge should also come with a price.
~Tomi Lahren

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
~J K Rowling

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
~Margaret Fuller

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
~Judy Collins

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
~Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Posted From The Grove

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
~Harry Browne

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Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
~Ron Paul

Taxation is the price which we pay for civilization, for our social, civil and political institutions, for the security of life and property, and without which, we must resort to the law of force… [T]axes are not to be considered a grievance, but as our fair contribution for the common good…
~John N Pomeroy, Waitstill R Ranney, Timothy P Redfield

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.
~Albert Bushnell Hart

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The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion ‒ famously drawn on a napkin ‒ that cutting taxes would lead to higher tax revenues.
~Steven Rattner

Tea, coffee, spirits, laces, silks, and spice,
And sundry drugs that bear a noble price,
Are bought for little, but, ere sold, the things
Are deeply charged for duty of the king’s.
~George Crabbe

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
~Albert Camus

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Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
~Mark Skousen

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
~Andrew Jackson

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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
~J William Fulbright

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
~Robert Casey

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For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
~Lord Byron

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
~Ronald Reagan

I will not agree to go to war in the Donbass. I know there are a lot of hotheads, especially those who hold rallies and say, ‘Let’s go fight and win it all back!’ But at what price? What is the cost? It’s another story of lives and land. And I won’t do it.
~Volodymyr Zelensky

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
~Suzanne Fields

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
~Lech Walesa

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The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
~Douglas Haig

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
~J Reuben Clark

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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
~Patrick Henry

Freedom has a price. Most people aren’t willing to pay it.
~Jack Kevorkian

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An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.
~Theodor Mommsen

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
~Benjamin Franklin

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Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.
~Hillary Clinton

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
~John F Kennedy

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
~Barack Obama

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It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.
~Moshe Dayan (Israel)

Our self-respect does not have a price tag.
~Nawaz Sharif (Pakistan)

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
~William Hague (United Kingdom)

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
~W E B Du Bois (United States)

Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.
~Jose Eduardo dos Santos (Angola)

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What is and isn’t justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of the key concepts, though, is the law of proportionality. A military attack that results in civilian casualties ‒ ‘collateral damage’ ‒ is acceptable as long as the military benefits outweigh the price that is paid by humanity.
~Sebastian Junger

The price of empire is America’s soul, and that price is too high.
~J William Fulbright

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We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest.
~Chris Christie

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The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.
~Caryl Chessman (serial rapist, gas chamber)

What is the price of justice? When bail is set unreasonably high, people are behind bars only because they are poor. Not because they’re a danger or a flight risk ‒ only because they are poor.
~Loretta Lynch

You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.
~Jeff Sessions

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Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
~Arundhati Roy

The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
~Jon Meacham

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
~Richard Russo

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The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don’t tell him the truth. Others won’t do it.
~Donald Rumsfeld

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What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don’t speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don’t get the rhetoric right. I think that’s a fair trade-off.
~Mary Beard (historian)

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
~Thomas Sowell

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Arthur’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense… If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.
~Jimmy Reid

For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.
~Dennis Prager

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My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.
~Bill Dixon

It’s great to make your own choices, but there’s a price to pay. I could’ve made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy.
~Michael Keaton

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
~Rudyard Kipling

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I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.
~Mikhail Gorbachev

And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.
~Lawrence Taylor

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Some of my memories will never return. They are lost ‒ along with the crippling feeling of defeat and hopelessness. Not a tremendous price to pay. (of ECT)
~Carrie Fisher

I have set out to come upon a new me, to open to the things that have long beat with their insistence at my door. I do not wish to surpass anyone or anything. I pray only to outgrow myself in emancipation and consciousness. I stipulate nothing, save that I grow. I know the price and I will pay.
~Muriel Strode

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The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.
~Lawrence Summers

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There isn’t a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with [the] President… People need to get upset with their Congressmen.
~Nicholas Kristof

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
~Meister Eckhart (theologian)

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Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.
~Martin Feldstein

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
~William Vickrey

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I am strongly committed to pursuing the dual goals that Congress has assigned us: maximum employment and price stability.
~Janet Yellen

Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve’s other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.
~Ben Bernanke

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Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
~Jonathan Sacks

It is in all our interests that the government, when buying goods or services, pays the lowest price.
~Jacob Rees-Mogg

I always ask the farmers, when you get up in the morning, is there some information which you are lacking which you would like to have? Invariably they talk about weather, the market price.
~M S Swaminathan

Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
~Wendell Berry

Farmers will not see good days unless their produce gets a guaranteed price. Even a notebook, a pen, or a soap has a price printed on it, but the milk that farmers sell do not have any price.
~Nana Patekar

When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.
~Nell Newman

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There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.
~Joseph Hume

All kinds of excuses have been given by governments for not implementing this recommendation like food price inflation. But the question is, do the farmers of this country, who constitute nearly half of the working population, also not need to eat?
~M S Swaminathan

We all need to know how to cook. I can buy a chicken and have many meals come from it. Is it affordable? Yes. Cheap? No. I want to pay the farmers the right price for food. They deserve it. They are the most important people in the country besides our teachers.
~Alice Waters

There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a life-long respect for the price of butter and eggs.
~William Vaughn

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No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
~Brian Tracy

People really are our most important resource, and people who don’t realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.
~Chesley Sullenberger

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On the Left, there is an emerging nostalgia on for renationalisation as a panacea for all our economic challenges. Every train fare increase, water price rise or electricity rate change triggers a well-orchestrated hue and cry for our essential infrastructure to be taken back into public hands.
~Priti Patel

I don’t believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they’re going to fail.
~T Boone Pickens

Some argue that now isn’t the time to push the green agenda – that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem – high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today’s financial difficulties.
~Lucy Powell

Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don’t often think about social and environmental impact because they’re focused on their financial bottom line.
~Jerry Greenfield

Innovative capitalists have tried to rewrite nature, but to no avail — in the long run, nature always wins.
~Terri Guillemets

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Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It’s the fastest fish. It’s a warm-blooded fish. But it’s got a $100,000 price tag on its head.
~Paul Watson

My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.
~Paul Watson (environmentalist)

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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
~E O Wilson

If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
~Ma Jun

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product’s cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.
~Eliot Spitzer

The key to saving the Amazon and the rest of the world’s great rainforests is actually very simple: just put a fair price on the role they play in providing a quarter of the world’s oxygen, a fifth of fresh water, and 60 percent of its species.
~Johan Eliasch

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
~Sherwood Boehlert

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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
~Tahar Ben Jelloun (Moroccan)

The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.
~Andrew McCarthy

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
~Shirley Chisholm

Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.
~Joyce Meyer

Edward Snowden may not be a Chinese mole, but he might as well be. He’s just handed Beijing a major score, while the NSA struggles to pick up the pieces ‒ and the rest of us pay the price in terms of future national security.
~Arthur L Herman

I defend both the freedom of expression and society’s right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
~Naguib Mahfouz (Nobel, Literature, Egyptian)

The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals.
~Peter Singer (ethicist)

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~BadfishKoo: Happy Gilmore • The Price is Wrong Bitch (1:25) Bob Barker gets in the last word

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~The Mindset Revolution: Bob Newhart • Stop It (6:18) that’s it?

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Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.
~Arthur C Nielsen (media ratings)

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
~John Wooden

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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
~James Baldwin

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Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other.
~Raymond Loewy

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More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.
~Anthony Weiner

One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn’t change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area.
~Lee Scott

I mean, price is price. It’s just where you want to spend your money.
~Rob Walton

Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
~Barbara Ehrenreich

I don’t understand how it’s cheaper to buy a whole steak at the Price Club than spinach. How did that happen?
~Jose Andres

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Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
~Alfred P Sloan

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People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
~Lee Iacocca

That who sold the expensive for no price, bought the cheap with the highest price.
~Raja Rayshouny

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Apple makes really good products, and Samsung makes really good products. It’s really a two-horse race. Where I think Apple is exposed: the price points of Apple’s products are just so high by comparison with Samsung’s.
~John Sculley

The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.
~Steve Jobs

I think there will be PCs at every price point.
~Bill Gates

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You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
~Narciso Rodriguez

The first stage in a technology’s advance is that it’ll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it’s successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.
~Chris Anderson

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I’m actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that’s not the impression you get with wine.
~Brian Schmidt

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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
~Thomas Sowell

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let’s get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don’t want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.
~Susan George

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‘Fair’ is, like, this incredibly overused term in negotiations: ‘I just want what’s fair.’ ‘What’s the fair market price?’
~Christopher Voss

Before I started my company in 1998, I worked for big companies traveling a lot and saw firsthand how much waste there was. I was flying across the world in first class to places like Italy or Hong Kong, where I was staying in 5-star hotels, only to nickel and dime someone over a sweater price.
~Maria Cornejo

An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.
~Martin Feldstein

Consumers in both emerging and developed markets want it all ‒ high-performing products, the right price, and a purpose that they can connect with.
~Paul Polman

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Levi’s can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
~Calvin Klein

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In a sense, the market, by expecting a fall in prices, discounts that fall and makes it happen right away instead of later. Expectations speed up future price reactions.
~ Murray Rothbard

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
~Henry Ford

Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they’re greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.
~James Surowiecki

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The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
~Alfred Marshall

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble… to give way to hope, fear and greed.
~Benjamin Graham

I wasn’t a financial pro, and I paid the price.
~Ruth Handler

Basically, what I do is place a stop, generally 10 to 20 percent below the current price, whenever I buy a stock. The exact level depends on my own analysis of a stock’s trading pattern. If a stock violates this stop, I’m out.
~Martin Zweig

What turned me on then, and turns me on even today ‒ and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I’d still be interested in it ‒ is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.
~Sanford I Weill

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Everybody’s doing it. In capitalism, you try to get the highest price you can for a product.
~Martin Shkreli

You can’t allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don’t consider what you do to have any value at all, and that’s nonsense.
~Robert Smith

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
~author unknown

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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
~Harold Wilson

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.
~David Ricardo

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.
~Martin Feldstein

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer’s price.
~David Korten

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The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in between where the price is right. I have found this to be true to this day whether dealing in paper hats, winter underwear or hotels.
~Conrad Hilton

I think that a lot of companies are still amazingly price sensitive.
~Sanjay Kumar

Whereas a competitive firm must sell at the market price, a monopoly owns its market, so it can set its own prices. Since it has no competition, it produces at the quantity and price combination that maximizes its profits.
~Peter Thiel

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Every product you have ever loved was a compromise from the ideal vision of its creators to the realities of shipping on time, on budget, and on price point. Anyone who has ever manufactured a physical product that had to be on the shelves for Christmas shopping knows how painful these choices can be.
~Jay Samit

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The percentage you’re paying is too high priced
While you’re living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he’s made on your dreams.
~Steve Winwood

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Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!
~John Buchanan Robinson

I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them ‒ which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.
~Muhammad Yunus

My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can’t give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.
~Kallam Anji Reddy

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Well, I like regulation as little as anybody else. It can be intrusive. It can be detailed. It can be bureaucratic. It can be unevenly administered. It can be unfair. But most regulations that we have for mutual funds and for banks are regulations that we earned. We did something wrong and we’re paying a price for it.
~John C Bogle

For CNBC, and for Wall Street, billion-dollar fines for violations of the law are just part of the price of doing business, along with litigation costs and ‘compliance.’
~Alex Pareene

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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
~J Paul Getty

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I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it.
~John O’Toole

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
~Yves Behar

And that is the whole secret of successful advertising. A good store, selling good goods at right prices, is the foundation… No advertising should be better than the store behind it.
~Walter E Weld

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In 2008, Bitcoin was mysteriously introduced to the world in an obscure, technical paper written under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. By late 2013, the financial press was filled with reportage on Bitcoin and its dramatic price increase.
~Steve Hanke

The bitcoin protocol is about mining bitcoin, not pricing bitcoin. There is nothing in the protocol about establishing a market price for bitcoin; you need a market for that, but what if all the exchange markets are shut down?
~Max Keiser

Whenever the price of cryptocurrency is rallying, people start spending a lot more.
~Erik Voorhees

I’m investing. I’m taking a lot of bitcoin, selling it as the price goes up, and putting it into real estate. Because then if bitcoin goes to zero ‒ which, it’s an experiment, it could ‒ I won’t be on the street.
~Charlie Shrem

I think the technology will get bigger and the price of Bitcoin will go up, so I’m speculating to increase my purchasing power. But I don’t intend to sell the Bitcoin. I intend to hold it until there’s a day where I can just use Bitcoin completely.
~Olaf Carlson-Wee

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Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply ‒ the lower the price. The higher the demand ‒ the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.
~Ron Wyden

You see this in the oil industry time and time again. Fears that we’ve found the last oil, that we’re going to run out, pop up constantly. And soon afterward, because the price goes up, huge new reservoirs are discovered.
~Porter Stansberry

I stick to stuff I’m pretty sure of and I know this: when the price of a barrel of oil is under $80 a barrel and you build a pipeline, you are driving up greenhouse gases.
~Elizabeth May

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I don’t see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
~Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (Qatar)

We will not allow our country ever to be at the mercy of commodity price volatility or external markets.
~Mohammad bin Salman (Saudi Arabia)

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I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I’m wondering if these prices are legitimate.
~Judd Gregg

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.
~Alexandra Paul

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Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.
~Jeremy Grantham

If you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
~Bill Gates

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Over time, there’s a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the ’70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened.
~Steve Forbes

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
~Barbara Castle

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Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.
~Virgil Goode

As long as the United States ‒ and the world ‒ gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.
~Kathleen Troia McFarland

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let’s use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
~Pete Domenici

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Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
~Vince Lombardi

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In the 2010s, it is not the price of bread that is falsely and unnecessarily inflated by obstinate politicians but that of energy. There are cheap sources of energy either available or possible, but there is a reluctance to use them.
~Jacob Rees-Mogg

We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can’t stand windmills at any price.
~James Lovelock

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
~Freeman Dyson

As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country’s energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.
~Dan Lipinski

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In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
~Bill Gates

For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price ‒ literally ‒ at the pump and in their heating bills.
~Chris Chocola

I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
~Naomi Klein

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.
~Sherrod Brown

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It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.
~Norm Coleman

The price of greatness is responsibility.
~Winston Churchill

Responsibility is the price of freedom.
~Elbert Hubbard

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Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
~Adam Smith

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
~Samuel Smiles

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
~Henry David Thoreau

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

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All those men have their price.
~Robert Walpole

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The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is only limited by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service, and would think it shame to ask for any reward…
~Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa, Santee Sioux)

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.
~Leonardo da Vinci

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§ VIDEO:
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
~Hattie McDaniel

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.
~Cedric Hardwicke

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.
~Klaus Kinski

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
~John Ruskin

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
~Bela Lugosi

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Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.
~Jim Henson

You’re looking at an actor whose price has just doubled.
~Art Carney

Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don’t even understand that. They think they have to do it… If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work.
~Michael Lewis

I just get the same stuff as I did before, but the price tag is much higher.
~Robbie Coltrane

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Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn’t want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.
~Tyne Daly

People who aren’t complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that’s the price they pay for being originals.
~George Cukor

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people’s lives without having to pay the price.
~Robert De Niro

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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
~Marquis de Sade

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.
~Peter McWilliams

I wish for a world where everyone understands that discomfort is the price of legendary. And fear is just growth coming to get you.
~Robin S Sharma

Sneer as you may, ye unideal lovers of facts and cents, I wouldn’t give up the power and the pleasure of building Castles in the Air — I would not sell you the delight of hope, the enjoyment of anticipation, or the luxury of day-dreaming for the price of a kingdom.
~Thomas Clark Henley

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
~Tom Stoppard

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To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that’s so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.
~Ethan Hawke

I miss a lot of things; that’s the price one pays for stardom. I miss standing in queues, buying tickets, and watching films first day first show. It isn’t the same going to preview theatres or multiplexes and trying to stay incognito.
~Nani (actor, or footballer)

People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone ‒ but that’s a price you pay.
~Samantha Mumba (black Irish singer)

I’m a complete addict of The ‘X Factor,’ so I can see why everyone gets so inspired. But there’s a downside to celebrity: your life is up for grabs, your career is much more disposable, and you are therefore vulnerable. It’s a high price to pay.
~Diana Quick

I’ve been underrated all my life, and that’s fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria ‒ it’s not completely in my hands ‒ you have to hide.
~Rutger Hauer

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As an announcer, The Price Is Right is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.
~Randy West

The Price Is Right can really get me going.
~Sam Peckinpah

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No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
~James Baldwin

Don’t tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
~Antonin Artaud

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We’ve been remarkably lucky in that we’ve been free to make the movies we’ve wanted to make the way we’ve wanted to make them. They’ve all been made for a price.
~Joel Coen

Still, the film nearly didn’t happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.
~John Schlesinger

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Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
~Bruce Jackson

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
~Alfred Hitchcock

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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
~Uwe Boll (slasher movies)

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
~Uwe Boll

So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
~Uwe Boll

We have a lot of secondary market problems in the U.K.; it’s really bad there. And lots of artists are starting to participate in it, because they put the tickets up at a certain price, then the tickets get marked up by the secondary sellers, and someone else gets twice as much as you.
~Mick Jagger

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People come to the theatre in search of a real encounter with other human beings, and we must give them what they come for. Our capacity to do that is the measure of being human. And if the price is that we sometimes say something not very pleasant ‒ well, that’s precisely why people want us, in the end: because we speak the truth.
~Haris Pasovic

My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.
~Samuel Morse (inventor/painter)

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~OF SCAR: Vincent Price (8:12) woven clips of a movie, satisfyingly weird, post-Halloween

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~Philip Martin: The Price (18:57) …and everyone gets to live

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~Omeleto: The Worst (15:47) until, improbably…

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I’m at the depot, and I’m not going anywhere. That’s better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don’t want to fail. They don’t want to pay the price unless there’s a guarantee they’re going to get there.
~Mark Spitz (Olympian)

The price of championships will never change. It’s been set long before me. It will be the same long after me. That price is hard work, sweat, blood, tears, fatigue and exhaustion and doing so much more than what is required of you.
~Tom Herman

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
~Vince Lombardi

Good council has no price.
~Giuseppe Mazzini

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The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.
~Connie Mack (baseball’s winningest/losingest/longest serving manager)

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
~Bill Veeck

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I’ve paid the price over the years, though: a lot of injuries and surgeries related to my sports career; my hips and knees took a lot of wear and tear.
~Johnny Mathis (high jump)

Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
~Jacky Ickx (Belgian race car driver)

But hey, man, if I summited K2 in winter, without oxygen, frost-nipped fingers are a small price to pay. It was worth it. Think about it, things could have been a lot worse.
~Nirmal Purja

The term ‘overachiever’ sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he just works so hard that he achieves beyond what you would think. ‘Overachiever’ is sort of a ‒ it’s sort of an incorrect term. An overachiever is someone that’s just willing to pay the price to get so much more out of his performance.
~Rick Pitino

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
~Elizabeth Hardwick

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The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
~Frank Serpico

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
~Joan Didion

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
~Ovid

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.
~Loretta Young

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Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.
~Charlie Dent

We can’t change the past but we can learn from history and remember the important things ‒ the sacrifices our loved ones made, and the price of our freedom today.
~Vera Lynn

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
~Rabindranath Tagore

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I’ve got personal views on the ’60s. You can’t have freedom without paying the price for it.
~James Lovelock

Freedom is beyond the price of any earthly cheer…
~Lucy Larcom

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§ MUSIC:
Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There’s the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community – not the community coming to the concert – they say, ‘Wow! I didn’t know that this music was so amazing!’
~Gustavo Dudamel (LA Philharmonic)

The economic picture in the States today doesn’t allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.
~Norman Granz

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
~Stendhal

I’ve never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that ‒ of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
~Taylor Swift

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I live wild and free and reckless, but that’s the price you have to pay for rock.
~Hank Williams III

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I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called ‘The Price.’ I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.
~Bob Seger

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.
~Tre Cool

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The price of fountain drinks in the big cities is already too high, and it is possible there is absolutely no limit to the amount the average customer is willing to pay.
~The Spatula: An Illustrated Magazine for Pharmacists

Sometimes I think our ancestors would laugh through their tears if they could see how we eat. We eat mostly from colorful boxes and cans. We spray our vegetables and fruits with deadly chemicals, then ship them half-way around the world before we eat them. It’s been a grand experiment in the wonders of technology, but what a price we’re paying in our health!
~Kristina Turner

The glow of good health can be yours for the price of hard work, wise choices, and respect for your body.
~Terri Guillemets

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Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.
~David F Houston

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~Jessica Born & Georg Crostewitz: We’re Not In Love Anymore (4:45) bluesy, cozy music, but it’s the golden light settings

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~Bryan Ferry: The Price Of Love (3:12) lots of sultry eyes

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~OldFiat24: Belle and Sebastian • For the Price of a Cup of Tea (3:32) to an old Disney clip

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~Celso Lopes: Alan Parsons Project • May Be A Price To Pay (4:39) a sophisticated lyric and sound, odd/pleasant video?

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~English by Skype: Van Morrison • Let the Slave (5:30) opulent images, anguished lyrics

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~ChicaDeHumoBjovi232: Bon Jovi • The Price of Love (4:21) boys being boys, pre-show and on stage

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~Pete Wright: Too High a Price (3:49) graphic images of death and war, be advised

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~Gabriel Souza: Bruce Springsteen • The Price You Pay (6:11) it’s Bruce, in concert

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~Leonardo Person: Roxette • The Price (3:45) catchy, with color swatches

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~PM Entertainment: Michael Jackson • Price Of Fame (4:25) by one who paid

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~earMUSIC: Deep Purple • Vincent Price (4:48) campy, belated Halloween offering

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~bgs4689cadh: Bee Gees • The Price Of Love (4:53) the price of fame, rather

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~Jessie J: Price Tag w/ B.o.B (4:04) the issue was bling

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
~St Jerome

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
~Agatha Christie

Grief is the price we pay for love.
~Queen Elizabeth II

Love has a cost, and it’s grief. Because we will always be separated from things we love. That’s the nature and price of life, right? But, when you love something deeply, then you’re courageous.
~Gail Bradbrook

Being crazy of someone might seem cheap, but what if your life is priceless without that person.
~M F Moonzajer

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Jealousy is unavoidable ‒ it’s part of the price we pay for intimacy.
~Rachel Simmons

We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There’s a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn’t a casual thing. It’s a huge thing.
~William H Macy

I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
~Saul Bellow

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
~Jean Baudrillard

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Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I’d pay.
~Esther Williams

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one ‒ but there is a price.
~Harry Browne

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When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That’s the price she has to pay.
~George S Kaufman

A good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor ‒her price is far above rubies, as the book of Proverbs doesn’t quite say.
~Andrew Hudgins

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Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
~Louis Leakey

If you’re a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
~Mignon McLaughlin

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…and in the center, facing us, stood a magnificent blonde… my skin turned to goose flesh, my knees knocked. Yet I… looked in spite of myself. Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
~Ralph Ellison

Cheap is the love that has a price.
~Ljupka Cvetanova

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
~Stendhal

Love is the expression of one’s values… the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
~Ayn Rand

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What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?
~John Millington Synge

My father told me ‘Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.’
~Dave Chappelle

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
~William Blake

I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn’t want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don’t answer.
~Arsenio Hall

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments — and you get the tears at the end, too.
~Harlan Coben

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Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman’s counsel.
~George Chapman

What made women’s labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.
~Clara Zetkin

Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.
~J B Pritzker

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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I’d done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn’t read it.
~Buchi Emecheta

Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs.
~Cathy McMorris Rodgers

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Motherhood is priced Of God,
at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
~Helen Hunt Jackson

With what a price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
~Isadora Duncan

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
~Angela Carter

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
~Lucy Stone

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‘Sexy’ doesn’t have to come with the price tag of being dumb.
~Pink

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Women’s Rights, Speculative Fiction from 1889
The Year 2000 — United Britain. There have been many changes and much progress in the well-being of humankind during the past hundred years. The strongest point of the century passed has been the striking advancement of the intellectual power of woman. The barriers which man in his own interest set to the occupation of woman having once been broken down, the progress of woman in all pursuits has been continuous. It has come to be accepted that the bodily power is greater in man, and the mental power larger in woman. The arts and caprices which in old days were called feminine proved to be the silken chains fastened by men on women to lull them into inaction. Without abating any of their charms, women have long ceased to submit to be the playthings of men.
~Julius Vogel (former PM of NZ)

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One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money – putting a price on your childhood – is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can’t put a price on them.
~Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter series)

When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
~Edwin Booth

Understand: as children and young adults, we are taught to conform to certain codes of behavior and ways of doing things. We learn that being different comes with a social price.
~Robert Greene

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren’t things to think about any more. All that matters is value ‒ the ultimate value of what one does.
~James Hilton

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CONSUMER From con, meaning to dupe, and Latin summa, highest. The Dupe who pays the highest price.
~Charles Wayland Towne

Sale Price — What something costs when it is priced only slightly above what it is worth; also what something is priced at the day after we bought it at a higher price.
~Richard E Turner

A smile is a facelift that’s in everyone’s price range!
~Tom Wilson

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The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.
~Douglas Adams

The biggest problem facing motorists today is whiplash. You get it from watching the price of gas go up.
~Robert Orben

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
~Robert Orben

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!
~Mignon McLaughlin

With the price of life these days, you’ve got to get everything for free you can.
~Carl Rogers

I bought my wife a beautiful diamond ring and I even had it engraved ‒ with the price.
~Michael McIntyre

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
~Mignon McLaughlin

If a dog jumps up into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. ~Alfred North Whitehead

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I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.
~Lynsey Addario (photojournalist)

There are many causes of violent deaths in America ‒ murders and traffic accidents ‒ that we do not approach with the same ‘no price too steep, no task too difficult’ approach that we take toward al Qaeda.
~Dennis C Blair

We never bury the dead, son. We take them with us. It’s the price of living.
~Mark Goffman and Jose Molina

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one’s lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
~Gilbert Parker

If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America’s health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.
~Jamie Oliver

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This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people’s prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.
~Paul Ryan

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America’s broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.
~Ron Wyden

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There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
~Harry Stack Sullivan

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Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.
~Judy Biggert

The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.
~Mary Landrieu

From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.
~John Shadegg

Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets ‒ government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives?
~Jim Cooper

The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market – more choices, lower prices, higher quality – and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.
~John Shadegg

The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price ‒ not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.
~Mike Simpson

Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price.
~Jonathan Potter

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Dark Hollow Oak
© David Lorenz Winston

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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
~William James

The results of quality work last longer than the shock of high prices.
~author unknown

A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
~Charlie Munger

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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
~Desmond Tutu

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
~Wendell Phillips

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
~George Orwell

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The bottom line is if you want to own a football club you have to pay the price to have success.
~Simon Jordan

Everything in life has a price on it ‒ there ain’t a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
~Earl Campbell

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
~Orison Swett Marden

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Everybody says, ‘I want to change,’ but they’re not willing to pay the price of it. …and if you want that ride to be exhilarating and amazing, you’ve got to pay to get in. And the price is a willingness to change above and beyond what most people will do.
~Brendon Burchard

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
~Juvenal

The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.
~Mahira Khan (actress)

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True freedom is where an individual’s thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor ‒ no matter the personal price.
~Bryant H McGill

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member’s freedom of thought and action.
~Robert Shea

Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.
~Robert Kennedy

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When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.
~Mr T

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
~Patrick Henry

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
~Martin Luther King, Jr

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If the price is very cheap then it’s almost certainly a fake.
~David Russell

I don’t design down to a price.
~James Dyson

You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you’ve got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.
~Yayoi Kusama

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I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it’s much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.
~Betsey Johnson

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The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there’s a single numeric average. But if it’s a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that’s crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.
~Jaron Lanier

I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they’re being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don’t have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn’t do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.
~Charlie Munger

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas Sowell

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Once, long ago, I heard an old man say,
“Two pounds of sorrow is the price you pay
For every pound of bliss.”
But I was young and such a reckoning
Seemed far too steep; now, in a later spring,
I’d gladly offer far, far more than this.
~Alice Mackenzie Swaim

My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good happens, it is going to be followed by something bad. There is always a price to pay.
~Sue Townsend

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
~Mignon McLaughlin

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@Writers Platform

Precious and priceless are the blessings which books scatter around our daily paths. We walk, in imagination, with the noblest spirits… Without stirring from our firesides, we may roam to the most remote regions of the earth…
~Edwin P Whipple

Every man should have a library. The works of the grandest masters of literature may now be procured at prices that place them within the reach almost of the very poorest, and we may all put Parnassian singing birds into our chambers to cheer us with the sweetness of their songs.
~William E A Axon

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
~John Ruskin

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Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.
~Alberto Mangue

I’m in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
~Walter Jon Williams

The teachings of elegant sayings
Should be collected when one can.
For the supreme gift of words of wisdom,
Any price will be paid.
~Nāgārjuna

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The mercenaries and parasites of the Press, who prostitute its more than royal power, and dishonor a noble profession, will find it easy to mock at things too wonderful for them to understand; for to them the price of a paragraph is more than the value of sincerity.
~H P Blavatsky

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
~Ellis Peters

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I don’t know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I’ve gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
~Jerry Saltz

Money messes up everything. It ruins art. The second you start putting price tags on this stuff, it’s… Art isn’t for just the wealthy. It’s for everybody to enjoy.
~John Gourley

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
~Jerry Saltz

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We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
~Judy Garland

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
~Max Eastman

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Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I’ve never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matter how hard I look. (explores race, gender, sensuality, violence)
~Jerry Saltz

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
~Alexander Pope

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It’s not a movement – movements are more sure of themselves. It’s a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.
~Jerry Saltz

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People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.
~Yayoi Kusama

These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I’m a flesh-eating virus.
~Jerry Saltz

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Prewritten Prompt: price

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‘T is heaven alone that is given away,
‘T is only God may be had for the asking;
There is no price set on the lavish summer,
And June may be had by the poorest comer.
~James Russell Lowell

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
~Harriet Ann Jacobs

For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.
~Bill McCartney

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that’s really worth following in this world or the one that’s coming.
~Brennan Manning

Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership ‒ it’s an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.
~Richard Foster

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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
~Adam Clarke

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
~Mahatma Gandhi

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which ‒ if she wasn’t smart enough to camouflage herself ‒ she generally paid the price.
~Stacy Schiff

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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
~Abraham Kuyper

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
~Mahatma Gandhi

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The price of peace is righteousness.
~Ezra Taft Benson

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
~Amelia Earhart

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We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.
~Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front)

We want peace, but not at any price.
~Ehud Barak (Israel)

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
~Mahatma Gandhi

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
~Elia Kazan

We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.
~Tom Steyer

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In Israel, there is a peace camp that can convene 200,000 people in central square of this city, on very short notice, and there is a major movement among academics, politicians, thinkers, and public leaders for peace, even at a painful price. On the Palestinian side, you can find them individually here and there, but there is no public movement.
~Ehud Barak

You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
~Fred Hampton

Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.
~Mark Foley

The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning — and ready to pay its full price…
~Dwight D Eisenhower

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Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood — the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
~Theodore Roosevelt

There is no short cut. For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
~John Burroughs

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We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.
~James F Byrnes (Sec, State)

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
~Orison Swett Marden

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Poor Charlotte Guise, superstitious by nature and education, was seized with a perfect acme of terror…
~Ellen Price Wood

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‘studies’ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‘studies’ are about propaganda rather than serious education.
~Thomas Sowell

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
~Tom Stoppard

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What are called ‘public schools’ in many of America’s wealthy communities aren’t really ‘public’ at all. In effect, they’re private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.
~Robert Reich

When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
~Arthur Ashe

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We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
~Sandra Day O’Connor

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.
~Robert Kennedy

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College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.
~Dianne Feinstein

We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.
~Evan Bayh

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For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that’s just the price of being first sometimes.
~Hugh Grant

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn’t be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.
~Gary Kovacs

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
~Michael Shermer

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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
~Bill Keller

Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay.
~Steven Berkoff

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My interest in space started early, but for many years, I could not find any space-related investments that really penciled-out for venture. That changed in 2009 when Elon Musk came to us with a big vision to explore Mars while producing rockets at a fraction of a price and making space accessible.
~Steve Jurvetson

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
~Barney Oliver

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§The Exercise:

loco•motives

if the prize of arriving
is worth more than
the price leaving
then ’tis love

’twere it otherwise
the price at arriving
i’m believing
’tis a prison
you’ll be leaving

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geezer dream

museum quality
no bid too high
priceless art
to bait the eye
safely in storage
‘gainst those who’d try

uncanny fortune
lucky hayride
meeting by chance
now fortunate bride
but forced to choose
woman and wife
or stored security
retirement set-aside

unhappy choice
treasures beyond price
but plucky old geezer
still willing to fight
restored by their beauty
kept both as his prize

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he)lection

strident leaders
fawning followers
antique antics
curbside brawlers
clowning pleaders
hijinks lawyers
price of just-us
bottom dollars
adjusted judges
frowning scholars

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she)lection

wide-eyed scan
to read a man
saber wit
might hurt a bit
maternal instincts
avoid the brink
nato’s knowledge
world-class college
nation’s good held interior
no hand-held full-length mirrors

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aphrodite

maven of lovin’
holdin’ ‘n huggin’
refusin’ of nothin’

desire as divine
upright and reclined
behind or declined

unfettered freedom
when price became boredom
satiated and numb

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old religion

scars have stories
some are scary
sacred relics
bleak allegories
holiday wary
glamoured with glory
yet blood was shed
will be again
‘ere the ending’s
pre-paid price
earns its interest
fate of sacrifice
third time charm
foreshadowed twice

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5s ‘n 7s

masculine price for handsome
different brand of beauty
muscle-bound as pulchritude
another kind of cute-he
vanity veiled as duty

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Fiery new hired Hope
Second storey rope
She wouldn’t elope
Bid goodbye to love
All pleasure removed
Frees up liberties
High price of release

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knuckling under
submission to aggression
is the ask too much
old identities don’t fit
worth the price, cost of new clothes

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raw goods locked in land
survival spidering out
future up for grabs
webs of intrigue worth a war
empire’s price when costed out

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.
~Isabelle Holland

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It’s distressing, but there you are.
~Leslie Charteris

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Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.
~Akhenaton

Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.
~Gary Vaynerchuk

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The little white goatee that stuck out from the side of his chin was as crooked as his temper.
~Margaret Sutton Briscoe

Your hair carries a lot of energy and memories…
~Lindsay Price Stone

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You ought to have fully and clearly in your own mind a good reason for everything you do, for everything you learn, for everything you eat, for everything you drink.
~Alice Price

Plans without price tags are simply pandering.
~Ayanna Pressley

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It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
~Ben

I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It’s always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
~Alice Hoffman

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Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
~James Q Wilson

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
~Kenneth L Pike

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I don’t know whether it’s age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.
~John le Carre

People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.
~Saul Alinsky

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I also came to see that the price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
~Eldridge Cleaver

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
~Warren Buffett

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The Olio
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Fun Tarts: https://gocomics.com

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The Salmagundi
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THIS EDITION: fame

Dedicated to Anthony Burt: Erudite, liberal-hearted friend of conservative values, best fireside and car-ride companion of a lifetime, another reason to hope for something… after.
These tears are for you.

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Quoted in the Grove:
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
~Gloria Swanson

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
~Gene Tierney

From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That’s the rule of life.
~Lata Mangeshkar

EndQuote:
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
~Oprah Winfrey

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Next prompt: price
Returning stateside. Next edition, soon.

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Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.
~Ryan Adams

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else ‒ very rarely to those who say to themselves, ‘Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!’.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it’s a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.
~Charles H Townes

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
~William McFee

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I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
~David Mallet

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
~Socrates

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
~Pericles

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
~Jean Genet

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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
~George William Curtis

I don’t ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, ‘The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your work.’ The first one is not respectable, but the second one is, because that leaves a legacy.
~Troy Baker

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you’re trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.
~Justin Theroux

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I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It’s more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
~Lloyd Banks

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
~Emily Dickinson

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I’d like to have the fortune, but I don’t care too much about the fame.
~J J Cale

Fame is really strange. One day you’re not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply ‒ yet everyone looks at you differently.
~Matt Damon

I don’t think about my fame very much.
~Calvin Klein

I feel like fame is wasted on me.
~Ben Affleck

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I actually like ‒ if I may use the F word ‒ fame. I like people stopping me in the street and saying, ‘Can I have a photo?’
~Frank Skinner

I think I have the perfect level of fame. 99% of the time, I’m a normal person. But once a day someone comes up to say hello, and it’s beautiful.
~Philip Rosenthal

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Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.
~Michael Hutchence

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
~Lady Gaga

The fame game’s fun, but it’s not forever.
~Caroline Flack

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Some aspects of the fame are annoying, but at the end of the day it’s something we’re most grateful for. It’s certainly opened the door to a whole new batch of opportunities.
~Ryan Ross

With fame, I’m able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
~Cyndi Lauper

I’m not striving for fame, that’s for sure. I don’t particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there’s a balance to be made there.
~Jamie Lawson

I’m already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You’re in a vacuum if you don’t have a certain amount of fame.
~B D Wong

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A lot of things come with fame, whether it’s losing friends or losing family.
~Young Jeezy

With fame, you can’t trust everybody. You can’t depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got and what you can bring to their life. It’s not a relationship‒it’s a leech.
~Chris Brown

I guess I don’t have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don’t think I’d like it.
~Calvin Klein

To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, ’cause some strange things happen. I’ve seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.
~Tobey Maguire

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My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
~Leonardo DiCaprio

You’re either humble or you’re not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
~Oprah Winfrey

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.
~Alanis Morissette

If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.
~Dilip Kumar

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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
~George Santayana

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

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Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

Fame is short-lived, and you’re the last to know when you are no longer hot.
~George Lazenby

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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
~Edward Norton

Fame for fame’s sake is toxic ‒ some people want that, with no boundaries. It’s unhealthy.
~Annie Lennox

I’m not stupid enough to think that I can deal with another 10 or 15 years of major exposure. I think that is the ultimate tragedy of fame… People who are simply out of control, who are lost. I’ve seen so many of them, and I don’t want to be another cliché.
~George Michael

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Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.
~Tiger Woods

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
~Lucius Accius

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Fame is like being at a party and getting invited into the cool room even the VIPs can’t get into, then the even cooler, more exclusive room after that. Eventually, you end up in a cubicle on your own, asking, ‘Am I having fun?’
~Noel Fielding

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
~Stephen Rea

George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I’ve ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.
~Alvin Lee

Fondness for fame is avarice of air.
~Edward Young

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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
~Billy Connolly

All fame is is having people you don’t know coming up to you and saying, ‘Hello.’ I’m always polite and people are always nice, but it’s weird.
~Karl Pilkington

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
~Benedict Cumberbatch

I know I have this level of celebrity… but it’s a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you’re in the middle of another famous person’s life and you think to yourself, ‘How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we’re in?’
~Kevin Costner

People think being famous is fun. It’s not. Even a little bit of fame. It’s bizarre. It’s weird.
~Steve Lukather

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
~Marlo Thomas

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Posted From The Grove

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.
~Joni Mitchell

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
~Erica Jong

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
~Lord Byron

The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people’s obsession. I feel watched 90% of the time, but that is something I drew with the cards that I drew.
~Dionne Warwick

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you…
~Marilyn Monroe

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I think it’s really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It’s funny to me that we’re expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I’m famous?
~Lisa Edelstein

If you’re lucky enough to be famous, then it’s great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.
~Michael Schumacher

I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I’ve been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don’t get a chance to be heard.
~Shakira

With fame comes opportunity, but in my opinion, it also includes responsibility ‒ to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings and, if I’m lucky enough, then to inspire.
~Meghan Markle

That’s one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
~Jeff Bridges

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I’m not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.
~Ted Nugent

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the “mob” – a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
~Camille Paglia

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The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey who have defied the odds and achieved great power, wealth, and fame.
~Michelle Alexander

If you have money and you have fame, but you don’t have any confidence in your blackness, then it’s all for nothing.
~Paul Mooney

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One to destroy, is murder by the law;
and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
to murder thousands, takes a specious name,
‘War’s glorious art’, and gives immortal fame.
~Edward Young

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
~William Tecumseh Sherman

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
~Sun Tzu

A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.
~Sun Tzu

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In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn’t delineate between legal and illegal.
~Rick Warren

From the depths of the West of Europe, a young child will be born of poor people, he who by his tongue will seduce a great troop; his fame will increase towards the realm of the East.
~Nostradamus

THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government.
~Charles Inglis (Anglican bishop)

American culture worships explorers ‒ look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.
~Nathan Myhrvold

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
~Alan Shepard

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Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
~Dave Chappelle

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.
~Mary Hunter Austin

At the height of our fame, we didn’t see anything. We didn’t leave the hotel because we were doing interviews all day. We may have traveled the world, but we saw nothing.
~Curt Smith

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When I come to reflect on the subject, in no country have I received such honors or been so esteemed as in Italy, and nothing contributes more to a man’s fame than to have written Italian operas, and especially for Naples.
~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I believe India has multi-talented people, so I have also embarked on my journey as an actor. I don’t need to be a celebrity, since tennis has already given fame to me.
~Leander Paes

I love the people to see me as gold medal, Hall of Fame, world champion that knows how to make the world news and how to come from oldest counrty in the world to be most famous Iranian in the history.
~The Iron Sheik

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
~Jackie Collins

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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
~Benjamin Disraeli

I believe spiritualism is above everything, and I would choose it over name, fame, and money because spiritualism gives you power, and I love power.
~Rajinikanth

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
~Narendra Modi

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so ‒ like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don’t want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.
~Julie Burchill

A life lived with integrity – even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
~Denis Waitley

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The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
~Leonardo da Vinci

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
~Leon Askin

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~Lady Gaga: FAME (0:33) a commercial: 1st) imagine it, 2nd) compare your vision with hers

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~Glass & Marker: Virool: Fame (3:35) goop that makes fame

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~Dadi Dreucol: Fame (1:00) the artist: before, becoming after

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Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
~Shakira

The thing that is cool about my come up is that I dealt with fame and having money gradually. It didn’t happen overnight. It was something that took a while to happen. It was something that humbled me and made me very appreciative of my blessings more than I would have been if it had happened faster and easier.
~Trey Songz

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
~Eminem

I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope.
~Al Pacino

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there’s no manual, no training course.
~Charlie Sheen

You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.
~Lemmy

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
~Patrick Swayze

I wouldn’t know how I would have coped with The Beatles’ sort of fame.
~Noel Redding

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Fame does lead to money, which I don’t have a close relationship with. I’m the kind of guy who never sees the money ‒ it all goes somewhere else. I don’t understand it, I don’t like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.
~David Duchovny

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
~Wilhelm Steinitz

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
~Mike Tyson

Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery. I didn’t just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and it was scary.
~Amber Rose

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
~Jack London

It’s funny ‒ nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don’t have the money to hide from it.
~Matt LeBlanc

I don’t care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.
~Lucas Grabeel

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How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
~Leonardo da Vinci

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
~P T Barnum

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
~Charles Sumner

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To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
~Charles Churchill

I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.
~Pietro Aretino

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I love being an older comic now. It’s like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You’re in the Hall of Fame and it’s nice, but you’re no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
~Eric Idle

I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it’ll recede. In fact, I know it will. That’s life on Planet Earth. And I’m okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?
~Tina Fey

Fame is only good for one thing ‒ they will cash your check in a small town.
~Truman Capote

I don’t need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I’m happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I’m happy my day is done. It’s over.
~Dan Aykroyd

Fame is the thirst of youth.
~Lord Byron

Fame and success and awards should never be the aim. The aim should be: Are you enjoying the making of the thing?
~Brett Goldstein

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Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.
~Gene Simmons

I’ve never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can’t say I would turn my back on fortune. I’m someone who enjoys the benefits of money.
~Joan Collins

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People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.
~Dolly Parton

First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It’s a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.
~Michelle Pfeiffer

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.
~Sandra Bullock

There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there’s a negative, and then it all kind of balances out.
~Ashton Kutcher

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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
~Erma Bombeck

Don’t expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: she’s not the best singer in the world, but she’s got where she has through hard work.
~Rick Astley

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.
~Euripides

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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I’m in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
~Eddie Van Halen

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
~J K Rowling

I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.
~Iyanla Vanzant

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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
~Fran Lebowitz

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I have never wanted to be famous, as such ‒ fame is a by-product.
~Steve Coogan

Fame is an upshot of what I do. If you’re a successful comedian or actor, then you’re a famous one. But it’s not the driving force. It’s a by-product.
~Ricky Gervais

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I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
~Angelina Jolie

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it’s even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.
~David Cassidy

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One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.
~Bill O’Reilly

There’s a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it’s everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it’s shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting.
~George Clooney

…The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like ‒ and the fact that it’s not reversible.
~J Cole

One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.
~Nellie Melba

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Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person.
~Andy Cohen

Something happens to people around fame and power and money ‒ it can bring out the worst and best in people; it’s a monster you have to tame.
~Lisa Marie Presley

Fame is a beast that you can’t control or be prepared for.
~Tom Holland

An odd beast, fame. It’s got multiple personalities.
~Woody Harrelson

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§ VIDEO:
Acting is a life experience. I’m always learning things when I’m making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
~Kate Bosworth

Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That’s why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there’s a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it’s really not bad.
~John Corbett

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I’m terrified of being too famous. What I’m really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it’s me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.
~Noomi Rapace

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
~Famke Janssen

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There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.
~Rihanna

I think fame is such a scary thing, and it’s something I can never understand. It’s terrifying, but it’s the only way I get to do what I love every day, you know?
~Alessia Cara

Follow your passion. Nothing ‒ not wealth, success, accolades or fame ‒ is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don’t enjoy.
~Jonathan Sacks

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
~Marilyn Monroe

People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.
~Claire Danes

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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it’s in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men ‒ they all want it.
~Karrine Steffans

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don’t know why anyone would want to be famous. I can’t imagine what need that would fill.
~Jessica Cutler

A lot of people are like, ‘So you want to be famous.’ And I’m like, ‘No, I want to be good at my craft. ’
~Chloe Moretz

When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn’t about fame. It was about acting.
~Maggie Smith

Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we’re all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I’m really grateful for it, I don’t believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?
~Tom Hardy

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I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I’m a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called ‘Fame L.A.‘ The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn’t very funny, so they asked me, ‘What else can you do?’ So I played a singer.
~Christian Kane

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If you want to be an actor, you must have total, ruthless commitment to your art. Don’t be ambitious for fame or TV or movies. Art is a jealous mistress and will brook no competitors. Study all the time. Never stop reading. Never stop learning speeches. It will fill you up ‒ define and refine you.
~Steven Berkoff

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I can’t watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don’t recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.
~Rebecca Ferguson

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Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.
~Josh Hartnett

There’s a theory about fame: the moment it strikes, it arrests development. Michael Jackson remained suspended in childhood, enjoying sleepovers and funfairs; Winona Ryder, an errant teen who dabbled in shoplifting and experimented with pills; George Clooney, a 30-year-old commitment-phobe, never quite ready yet to settle down.
~Jemima Khan

Here’s my theory: If a person gets worldwide fame at a young age, they’re emotionally frozen at that moment. For me, that’s 15 to 18, so you find yourself in your mid-20s being a glorified 15-year-old. What could possibly go wrong?
~Rob Lowe

I think it’s child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it’s at the cost of someone’s natural development. It’s already hard enough to develop.
~Alanis Morissette

What a heavy burden is a name that has too soon become famous.
~Voltaire

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

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I’m the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt ‒ how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.
~Armistead Maupin

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the ’50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
~Thom Gunn

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~Omeleto: Sandpaper (15:50) not about fame, but becoming

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~Omeleto: Blurred Lines (11:53) music, court case reenactment, quality depiction

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The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.
~Tom Waits (Alice)

Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I’ve accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I’ve loved and am thankful for that chapter.
~Steven Adler (November Rain)

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, ‘OK, I’ve done it all,’ but for me, it was a new beginning.
~Jimmy Cliff (I Can See Clearly Now)

It’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
~Tom Petty (American Girl)

I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don’t think it’s just a hall of fame and it’s not just a museum. It’s a schoolhouse. It’s a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we’re making a living out of.
~Josh Turner (Would You Go With Me)

I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.
~Paul Stanley (Eli’s Comin’, Wedding Bell Blues, Stoned Soul Picnic, etc)

I have never been accepted. I’ll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They’re never going to let me in.
~Nancy Sinatra (not These Boots Were Made…, but Sugar Town)

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I’d always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.
~Brenda Lee (Jambalaya)

I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It’s there to be a museum showcase of all that’s great about American music.
~Ian Anderson (Thick As A Brick)

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Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip train ride from Hyannis to Sandwich on July 4, 1885 ‒ the occasion of the 14th annual baseball game between Sandwich and Barnstable.
~Jane Leavy

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In general, when you have success on the field, you’re more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you’re in the public eye more, and you’ve got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you’re doing out in public and make sure you’re smart about the things you say.
~Aaron Rodgers (NFL, pending)

I don’t think there’s any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.
~Pete Rose (MLB, ineligible, likely heartbroken)

I never figured I’d go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
~Yogi Berra (MLB 1972)

I always wanted to say I came out of the cornfields and got to the major leagues. That was my biggest thought. But now I can say I came out of the cornfields and got to the Hall of Fame.
~Ray Dandridge (MLB 1987)

I’ll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I’ll go in as a batboy.
~Phil Rizzuto (MLB 1994)

When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn’t win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I’m proud to be in this company that way.
~Eddie Murray (MLB 2003)

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
~Wade Boggs (MLB 2005)

The 50 greatest players don’t matter when you’re in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest ‒ in my mind.
~Dominique Wilkins (NBA 2006)

People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It’s like they put a stamp on me: ‘Hall of Fame. You’re done. That’s it.’
~Rickey Henderson (MLB 2009 ‒ after 25 seasons)

If I should get selected into the Hall of Fame, I’d be able to say ‘thank you’ to all the legends that are in the Hall of Fame… It’s going to be like a dream come true.
~Jerry Rice (NFL 2010)

If you can prove a guy did cheat, then I don’t believe he belongs. I don’t believe that there are any guys that did cheat, in that respect, that are in the Hall of Fame. So I think opening up the doors to guys that admittedly cheated or are proven that they did cheat, it kills the integrity of what the Hall of Fame stands for.
~Barry Larkin (MLB 2012)

When I was inducted into the Hall of Fame, Donald Trump was inducted on the same night. When I was done with my speech, he came over to me and said I could light up New York City if they could plug me into it.
~Bob Backlund (WWE 2116)

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I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It’s a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.
~Chuck D (rapper)

I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.
~Sugar Ray Leonard (world title 5 different weight classes)

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You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.
~Tom Brady (eligible 2028)

As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy… there’s something about winning a Super Bowl.
~Terry Bradshaw (1989)

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Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education.
~Jim Brown

The medium of response in America is fame; that’s how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.
~Patch Adams

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§ MUSIC:
We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
~Young Thug

You gotta remember: we’re musicians… we’re just crazy people who can’t get along sometimes. I’ve definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It’s part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it ‒ we’re lucky we don’t eat each other in this industry!
~Corey Taylor (Slipknot)

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it ‒ you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.
~Eminem

In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music, but as we got older, we had to understand that this is a business and that our moves need to be calculated.
~Prodigy

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My happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
~Nicki Minaj

I don’t run after money or fame. The only thing I have always wished is to be a classical singer.
~Asha Bhosle

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I think have my own style; no one has ever tried playback singing before. I might release a punk rock song that perhaps other won’t appreciate, but I like doing my own thing. I make music for my own satisfaction, not for money or fame.
~Atif Aslam

Making music is what drives me ‒ not awards, not Internet fame, not even exorbitant amounts of money. My fans call themselves ‘Aadeez,’ and they are the most loyal lot. I make my music for them. I love them.
~Atif Aslam

Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.
~Ajith Kumar

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If you wanna be famous, then it’s okay if the music is fake, because fame isn’t real.
~Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age)

I’m not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I’m not a rock star. I’m not in it for the fame, I’m in it because I like to play.
~Eddie Van Halen

When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
~Eddie Van Halen

A few can touch the magic string,
and noisy fame is proud to win them:
Alas for those that never sing,
but die with all their music in them!
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

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Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.
~Kirk Douglas

I really tried to take advantage of my 15 minutes of fame. And I’ve gotten lucky ‒ those 15 minutes have become several years.
~Colleen Ballinger

If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn’t care.
~Brigitte Bardot

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Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?
~Anne Frank

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn’t want money. I didn’t care about fame.
~Christine Lahti

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
~Amelia Earhart

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Fame and success are very different things.
~Enya

I’m not a big fan of fame; I’m a big fan of success.
~J Balvin

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Fame or perceived success ‒ it all comes from groupthink.
~Chance The Rapper

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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
~Baruch Spinoza

Some to the fascination of a name surrender judgment, hoodwinked.
~William Cowper

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don’t care about fame, I don’t care about being a celebrity. I know that’s part of the job, but I don’t feed into anyone’s idea of who I should be.
~Jessica Alba

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
~J Cole

You won’t change, don’t adapt, then you cry,
You be less famous, more extinct when you die.
~author unknown

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Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.
~Patti Smith

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
~David Bowie

People care about my fame, not me. But that’s fine. I have my own life.
~Josh Hartnett

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
~Desiderius Erasmus

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~Lady Gaga: Paparazzi (7:11) glamoured backdrop

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~Lady Gaga: Shallow (3:36) the classic

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~Donna Summer: Fame (4:03) doesn’t take kindly to fame

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~Jaegerfilm: Adekunle Gold • Fame (3:09) fame :: alone, same same

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~Brown Alien: The Fame Game (4:18) models, party time, a vacancy in evidence

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~hastalasvenska2: eminem • Almost Famous (4:51) disenchanted

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~Britney Spears: Piece of Me (3:10) saucy, why everybody wants some

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~NNAMDÏ: I Don’t Wanna Be Famous (2:43) surrounded by exotic trappings and luxury, a disclaimer

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~David Bowie: Fame (3:45) Mr Bowie’s pensive/acrobatic take on it

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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
~Sallust

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.
~Nick Cannon

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Show me an actor who doesn’t want to be famous, and I’ll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there’s more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.
~Kevin Bacon

This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I’d be lying to you if I didn’t say that was a big part of it.
~Michael Buble

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

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When I was a child, I used to dream about being onstage in front of thousands of people, and it happened. It’s not about the fame; it’s about people being touched.
~Fantasia Barrino

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The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
~Barack Obama

I have been in love with my wife since I was 17. She has always been my strongest support. Even when I didn’t have this fame, she was there.
~Fawad Khan

It’s about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.
~Ismail Merchant

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A REAL man would never lead a woman on, try to humiliate or hurt them, or try to intimidate them once you have broken up for the sake of more camera time or fame.
~Kenya Moore

I find ‘Fatal Attraction’ really romantic. I really like the seduction. Almost every time I see it, I’m surprised when it goes dark. I know that’s the claim to fame, but I key into how genuinely romantic it is.
~Shane Carruth

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The last thing I want is to die and then be put into the Hall of Fame. It’s not because I won’t be there to enjoy it, exactly. It’s because I want to enjoy it with family and friends and fans. I want to see them enjoy it.
~Ron Santo

These things were happening in my life where I was like, ‘Man, I wish my pops was here to see this.’ I never had those thoughts before fame, when my life was just a regular life. I wasn’t saying, ‘I wish my dad could be around and see me working at Applebee’s.’
~Kid Cudi

I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.
~Jeff Buckley

My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world, the Robert Moses of Philadelphia. He was on the cover of ‘Time‘ once, and I remember going to his office and seeing, like, two hundred copies, which he would hand out to people.
~Kevin Bacon

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.
~Richard Branson

I’m in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I’m still very troubled by the fact that I’m in the hall and my dad [Pat Boone] isn’t.
~Debby Boone

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
~Aeschylus

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My friends are all really nice about my fame, they’re just curious really, they ask lots of questions.
~Emma Watson

I’m not after fame and success and fortune and power. It’s mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that’s the good stuff in life.
~Drew Barrymore

Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
~Bruce Willis

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I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.
~George Clooney

As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I’m like, ‘Oh my goodness gracious ‒ that’s so insane.’ I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.
~Jordin Sparks

You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there’s nobody there. To feel like you can’t go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.
~Johnny Vegas

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.
~Robin Gibb

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
~Robert M Pirsig

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
~Emilio Estevez

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Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you’re responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally ‒ everything.
~Nick Carter

What really broke it down was I had my son while I was locked up, so that really affected me. I can’t really have this, knowing my father was locked up when I was small. So that really out of everything ‒ through the fame, the money, everything ‒ that really put the toll on me: ‘Oh yeah, I gotta change.’
~Lil Durk

It’s about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don’t matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have…
~Vanilla Ice

What’s the reason I’m playing basketball? I do it because I love it, I do it because of my family, and that’s it. I don’t do it because of the money. I don’t do it because of the fame. I just do it because I love it, and I do it for my family because my family enjoys it.
~Giannis Antetokounmpo

There’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That’s when you want to be noticed, because it’s very easy to get forgotten in an ER.
~Bill Murray

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I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
~Steve Martin

Twenty-two years I’ve been doing this comedy lark, so it’s been like a meteoric rise to fame… if the meteor was being dragged by an arthritic donkey across a ploughed field, in northern Poland.
~Bill Bailey

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Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn’t eligible for another fifteen years.
~Conan O’Brien

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can’t change a lightbulb.
~Gilda Radner

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It is a challenge, with the global fame, to try to act like I put my pants on one leg at a time, when in fact I have Pippa Middleton help me put my pants on every morning. She’s my lady-in-waiting as well.
~Kathy Griffin

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don’t want any of the other stuff.
~Matthew Broderick

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The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.
~Frank Ocean

I’ve always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.
~Joe Johnston

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Ambition has but one reward for all:
A little power, a little transient fame;
A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
~Walter Savage Landor

Fame ‒ a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
~Christian Nestell Bovee

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
~Horace Greeley

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
~Al Goldstein

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.
~Robert Mapplethorpe (died of AIDS, but did)

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
~Charles Caleb Colton

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I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.
~Varg Vikernes

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
~Marcus Valerius Martial

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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.
~Barry Humphries

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
~Blaise Pascal

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Don’t cling to fame. You’re just borrowing it. It’s like money. You’re going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
~Sonny Bono

Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends ‒ there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless ‒ be unhappy ‒ and die a bankrupt in soul.
~George Matthew Adams

Integrity of life is fame’s best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
~John Webster

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.
~Michael Huffington

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
~Friedrich Schiller

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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
~Vicki Baum

There’s probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.
~Diablo Cody

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If I’m such a legend, why am I so lonely?
~Judy Garland

Fame doesn’t end loneliness.
~Claire Danes

I think it’s easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.
~Sophia Bush

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I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
~Brenda Blethyn

Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.
~Noel Gallagher

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If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn’t interesting.
~Justin Theroux

Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.
~Thomas Fuller

There’s no difference between fame and infamy now. There’s a new school of professional famous people that don’t do anything. They don’t create anything.
~Ricky Gervais

I think if you’re fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk… why do that? I don’t understand how some people would want fame so bad that they’d go out and get negative attention to earn it.
~Zac Efron

I couldn’t lie to get myself fame and fortune.
~Dave Pelzer

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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
~Dante Alighieri

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
~Samuel Johnson

I have an ambition to write a great book, but that’s really a competition with myself. I’ve noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don’t really want to do anything. I can’t think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
~Zadie Smith

Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they’re just famous.
~John Carroll Lynch

Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don’t do anything.
~Katy Perry

I can’t imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
~Kat Dennings

Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.
~Khloe Kardashian

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From Here to There
© Silvia Trujillo

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In Italian there is an expression: We don’t sleep on the fame.
~Donatella Versace

If you would acquire fame, let not the sun shine on you in bed.
Spanish Proverb

Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
~James Howell

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The way to fame is like the way to heaven, through much tribulation.
~Laurence Sterne

The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.
~John Updike

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
~Nicolas Caussin

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Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements ‒ it’s not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
~Adam Clayton

Fame is like a big piece of meringue ‒ it’s beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn’t really fill you up.
~Pierce Brosnan

Fame is like caviar, you know ‒ it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
~Marilyn Monroe

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Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.
~Jemima Khan

Fame and insecurity don’t usually mix well. Though the fame maybe easily attainable, acceptance by the masses to one’s satisfaction, usually isn’t.
~Robert Black

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
~William Gilmore Simms

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I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.
~Johnny Depp

Fame is a curse… it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I’ll never have to go through again.
~Sinead O’Connor

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
~Michel de Montaigne

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To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn’t art, but the person you become when you’re famous ‒ your alter ego ‒ that’s art.
~Cardi B

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Name, and not fame is the exact yardstick because fame is transitory, and in our times, fame is vulgar because it can actually be bought.
~Sandeep Balakrishna

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Fame is morally neutral.
~Edward R Murrow

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Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat.
~Adrienne Posey

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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
~William Hazlitt

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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

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Fame exhausts me.
~Alice Walker

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
~John Wooden

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Fame doesn’t matter; people approving of you doesn’t matter. And if it does matter, you’re in store for something very difficult and painful.
~Beth Hart

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People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can’t provide that.
~Will Oldham (troubadour)

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
~Francis Bacon

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The only thing fame has changed in Wizkid is that I added some accessories. I have got nice chains, watches, and nice clothes. Asides that, I am still Wizkid. I no tall, still same height.
~WizKid

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Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn’t advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn’t wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.
~Emma Watson

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When we came out from the Elysee palace, there was a gigantic limousine waiting for us and four police on motorcycles. It is probably one of the few times I have experienced my fame. I thought it was so fantastic that I laughed to the point of shouting.
~Ingmar Bergman

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We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn’t that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.
~Donnie Wahlberg

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
~Chanakya

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How can a song all about struggling with the afterglow of fame thrust someone into fame? How can a lyric like, ‘I’m just a singer who already blew his shot,’ give a singer another shot? I don’t know… but it’s funny.
~Mike Posner

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@Writers Platform:

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
~A A Milne

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even… without any hope of doing it well.
~Oliver Herford

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
~Jean Cocteau

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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
~Bodhidharma

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
~Thomas Fuller

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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
~Robert South

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It’s not really any very heady fame.
~Peter Carey

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled ‒ all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you ‒ stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.
~Anne Lamott

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
~David Bowie

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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
~Moliere

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All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, ‘Who am I?’ And I wrote my first book to deal with that, ‘The Ragman’s Son.’
~Kirk Douglas

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
~Alice Walker

It’s not the lives of men or their fame that move the times forward, but their words. If we knew to string them in their best order, one might divine eternal answers.
~author unknown

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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.
~Jane Austen

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
~Blaise Pascal

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
~W H Auden

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Let judges secretly despair of justice:
their verdicts will be more acute.
Let generals secretly despair of triumph;
killing will be defamed.
Let priests secretly despair of faith:
their compassion will be true.
~Leonard Cohen

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
~Abbott L Lowell

Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim,
wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame,
obtained with labour, for mankind employed,
and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
~William Whitehead

Fame is what you have taken,
character is what you give;
when to this truth you waken
then you begin to live.
~Bayard Taylor

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Prewritten Prompt: fame

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Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.
~Ryan Adams

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.
~Marilyn Monroe

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
~Emily Dickinson

All is temporary and ephemeral—fame and the famous, as well.
~Marcus Aurelius

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Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they’re gone, you know, and they’re following somebody else.
~Jesse Stone

Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.
~Vera Rubin (astronomer)

Fame is a constant effort.
~Jules Renard

They say fame is important and that maintaining your fame is even more important. But to me, the most important thing is to deserve the respect of your fans.
~Juan Gabriel

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It’s not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
~David Cassidy

I never cared about money or fame, and I don’t care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.
~Quincy Jones

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you’re good enough.
~Max Walker

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There is much to life than fame and fortune. If you are a part of the entertainment industry, please remember it is all temporary.
~Sangram Singh

I think fame is hard in any capacity. It’s so fleeting; it’s not anything that you can really grab.
~Melissa Rauch

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In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
~Annette Funicello

The ultimate dream is a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
~Thalia

They are going to be playing Shaggy and Scooby-Doo for eons and eons, and they’re going to forget Casey Kasem ‒ unless they happen to step on his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I’ll be one of those guys people say, ‘Who’s that?’ about. And someone else will say, ‘He’s just some guy who used to be on the radio.’
~Casey Kasem (early TV)

Having your work be the basis of fame, that’s a far more stable feeling.
~Nicole Kidman

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I’m not motivated by money or fame. I’m more driven by the electricity of creativity. The idea of being one of the legends that inspired me, being like Tupac.
~Vic Mensa

My dreams are bigger than money; they’re bigger than fame.
~Kenny Omega

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It’s not money, it’s not fame, it’s not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
~Lupe Fiasco

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Money’s a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn’t have ‒ nice things ‒ but happiness? That’s a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.
~Dani Alves (futbol)

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.
~Mary MacLane

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
~Mary MacLane

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
~Clive James

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr

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§ The Exercise:

There is…

a famous grey mouse
Mickey
a blended scotch whisky
The Famous Grouse
nothing more frisky
than a soon-to-be spouse
more risky than a rogue
White House
more teasingly risqué than
a low-cut blouse
no better reason
to stay and browse

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foxy lady

to live with a vixen
daily visitations of beauty
with sharp teeth
a bushy tail
famed sly wit
and me

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deft & daffy definitions

sides: reason to be wary
strength: burdens to carry
yetis: lumbering and hairy
shy: always and very
fame: chiseled and airy
Tinker Bell: Peter’s Neverland fairy
Wisconsin: stately dairy
X-mas: time to be merry
lust: desires may vary
love: a reason to marry
eyes: wide and starry
words: inspiring and scary

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questionable

midwife to begin life
escort maven
death angel to end life
bleak-black harvest driven
confessed confused
unproven haven waitin’
which door to use
to fight or end strife
your move
quoth the raven

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chance encounter

trap door in the floor
of sane identity
independent of foundation
call it fame
call it off

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5s ‘n 7s

rage at large, honor profaned
law bending structures, pro-fame
do-over strictures, renamed
past reframed, repositioned
sins renamed, reconditioned
alibis turned lullabies
watching hist’ry rearranged

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gold statue for magnet fame
tall-tales telling former flame
tag-along friends use your name
fans then stalkers stake their claim
such hot fun to play this game

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value in veneer
betimes marketed as fame
money in the bank

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grab for attention
fame needs no introduction
do it anyway

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

It’s not the money. It’s not the fame. It’s the influence.
~Clay Aiken

Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.
~Hans Rosling

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I’ve always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.
~Jane Pauley

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
~Goethe

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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
~Edmund Burke

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
~P N Elrod

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In college, I was an education major and qualified for several jobs. But the fame that came with the Olympic medals was too threatening to many people.
~Wilma Rudolph (beat polio to win Olympic gold)

There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a mere athlete, probably spoilt by all the publicity and fame, dare aspire to neurology? But I’d done a lot of research, and my academic record was very good.
~Roger Bannister (first 4 minute mile)

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Fame and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
~Roman Proverb

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
~Doris Lessing

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It’s success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I’m addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.
~Robbie Williams

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
~Marc Anthony

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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
~Davy Crockett

Fame is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
~Thomas Carlyle

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Fame attracts lunatics.
~Elton John

Fame made me develop a panic disorder.
~Sia

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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
~Francis Bacon

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I made enough money to buy a house. That’s crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.
~Moon Unit Zappa

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
~Lady Gaga

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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I’m always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don’t understand the attraction.
~Cate Blanchett

Money is a good thing and it’s obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.
~Annie Lennox

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If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it’s not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you’re truly blessed.
~Edie Brickell (Good Times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc)

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

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Even for the wise, the desire for glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside.
~Roman Proverb

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
~Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
~Blaise Pascal

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
~Emil Cioran

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THIS EDITION: fight

Quoted in the Grove:
Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men’s movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.
~John Eldredge

I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.
~Paul Watson

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.
~Nikos Kazantzakis

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If you want to be a legend you have to fight with legends.
~Aleksei Oleinik

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Exercise Prompt for next time: fame

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
~George S Patton

The truth is, the harder you fight, the sweeter are the rewards in the end.
~Mary Kom

I have not yet begun to fight!
~John Paul Jones

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If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.
~Jordan Peterson

If you leave without a fight, you will get the name of a coward.
~Rajinikanth

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Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning.
~Erwin Rommel

He that fights and runs away,
May turn and fight another day;
But he that is in battle slain,
Will never rise to fight again.
~Tacitus

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
~Sun Tzu

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
~Norman Vincent Peale

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
~Gene Roddenberry

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How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?
~Jim Uhls (Fight Club, 1999 script)

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.
~Jimmy Doolittle

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Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend!
It’s not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
~Robert Herrick

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
~Blaise Pascal

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
~William Morris

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
~Jean Rostand

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In the third month, the sun rising,
the Boar and the Leopard on the field of Mars to fight;
The tired Leopard raises its eye to the heavens,
sees an eagle playing around the sun.
~Nostradamus

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
~Richard Wright

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Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
~Lionel Richie

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
~Robert Louis Stevenson

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Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
~Bear Grylls

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
~Ashley Smith

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
~Paulo Coelho

To fight fear, act. To increase fear ‒ wait, put off postpone.
~David Joseph Schwartz

It’s about focusing on the fight and not the fright.
~Robin Roberts

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At first I wasn’t sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
~Gordon Parks (photog, poet, composer, director, etc)

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.
~Dhanush

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And then there’s all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I’m always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.
~Shirley Manson

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me… but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
~Ty Cobb

No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We’re designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.
~Joe Rogan

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You never know what battles people fight.
~Francois Hougaard

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Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?
~James Longstreet

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper.
~Kendrick Lamar

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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
~Rita Mae Brown

We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we must also channel our words into action.
~Stacey Abrams

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
~Voltaire

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
~Thomas Carlyle

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
~Pierre Corneille

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Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we’ll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.
~Marianne Williamson

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
~Woodrow Wilson

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you’re in a fight.
~Michael Jordan

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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
~Arthur Miller

War’s not black and white; it’s gray. If you don’t fight in the gray area, you’re going to lose.
~Marcus Luttrell

Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
~Canelo Alvarez

I think its man’s nature to go to war and fight.
~Talib Kweli

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I know that I shall meet my fate
somewhere among the clouds above;
those that I fight I do not hate,
those that I guard I do not love.
~William Butler Yeats

It doesn’t matter what cards you’re dealt. It’s what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it.
~Baker Mayfield

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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
~Socrates (Greek, stayed to drink his hemlock)

We must see our present fight right through to the very end.
~Bobby Sands (Irish, fatal hunger strike)

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.
~Emilie Autumn

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If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
~Linda Ellerbee

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
~Virginia Woolf

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It’s this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that’s God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we’re swimming away from the purest expression of this life.
~Michael J Fox

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I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.
~Nikos Kazantzakis

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
~Paulo Coelho

The Estimate and Valour of a Man consist in the Heart, and in the Will, there his true Honour lives… If his Legs fail him, he Fights upon his Knees.
~Michel de Montaigne

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After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
~Wilfred Owen (poet/soldier)

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters – not to talk in armies and nations and numbers – but to track it home.
~David Herbert Lawrence

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.
~Ernie Pyle (war correspondent)

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
~Clara Barton (Civil War/Red Cross)

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
~William Manchester

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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
~Thomas a Kempis

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.
~David Goggins

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else ‒ means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
~e e cummings

The world needs many more dreamers. Unreasonable souls who fight the urge to be ordinary.
~Robin S Sharma

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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
~Jorge Luis Borges

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
~Thomas Carlyle

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
~Henri Barbusse

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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
~Aleister Crowley

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
~Hypatia

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
~William Hazlitt

If it were not for fighting shadows we should be strong enough for realities.
~Poor Richard Junior’s Philosophy, The Saturday Evening Post

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If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler’s bidding.
~Sun Tzu

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
~Sun Tzu

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
~Sun Tzu

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
~Sun Tzu

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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ~Herbert Hoover

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
~William Tecumseh Sherman

I don’t feel a lack of hope. It’s just disappointment that after all these years we’re still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
~Geezer Butler

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
~Edward Abbey

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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
~Yochai Benkler

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There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you’re going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it’s like we called Saddam’s army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.
~H R McMaster

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can’t. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn’t want to fight somebody.
~Andrew Vachss

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.
~Brent Scowcroft

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The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
~Bruno Dumont

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
~Golda Meir

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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter’s gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
~Yasser Arafat

The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
~Natan Sharansky

We must fight terrorism as if there’s no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there’s no terror.
~Yitzhak Rabin

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What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can’t do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt.
~Chesty Puller (decorated Marine)

There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they’re protecting us.
~Tom Clancy

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.
~Barack Obama

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
~Phyllis Schlafly

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.
~R Lee Ermey

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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
~Ulysses S Grant

I’m crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don’t like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.
~Shelby Foot

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
~William Tecumseh Sherman (Civil War’s March to the Sea)

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You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don’t have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you’ve finished, nothing’s changed. You’ve still lost.
~Rafael Nadal

The fact is I have lost a fight, and I accept the loss from Allah. That’s the way a real fighter and a real man goes out.
~Naseem Hamed

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
~Robert E Lee

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I hope my own children never have to fight a war.
~George H W Bush

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We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
~Joe Baca

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.
~Roger Nash Baldwin

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
~Bill Vaughan

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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
~Thomas Hobbes

Don’t fight the problem, decide it.
~George C Marshall

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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He’s fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
~C J Cherryh

When I wrap my hands, I do it for my family. I owe my courage to them and also my success. That’s why I fight.
~Gennady Golovkin (middleweight champ)

The world wants men to-day more than it ever did before, for the possibilities are greater than in any period of its existence. We want men who can see, and who can fight. We need them badly.
~Charles F Raymond, 1907

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I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.
~Pancho Villa

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
~George S Patton

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
~Dwight D Eisenhower

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.
~Horatio Nelson (Admiral, Royal Navy)

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I’ve always wanted to fight for people who didn’t have arms. I’ve always wanted to speak up for people who don’t have a voice. I’ve always wanted to protect people who couldn’t protect themselves. It’s my nature. It’s my instinct.
~Sophia Bush

Now, myself, I’m not a pacifist at all. I believe in just war. I would have joined the spirit of the nation to fight against apartheid.
~Cornel West

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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
~Imran Khan

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
~Nelson Mandela

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
~Nelson Mandela

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
~Oliver Tambo (South Africa)

I was so hooked by the fight for freedom that nothing mattered to us so long as we fulfilled the dream of years and years of our people being liberated. I thought normal life would come the day after.
~Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
~Thomas Jefferson

Though hearts be torn asunder, for Freedom we will fight…
~Lucy Larcom

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
~Walter Annenberg

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that’s it ‒ there’s no turning back.
~Jon English

We fight, even against insurmountable odds, because sometimes we win.
~Billy Parish

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

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Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
~Bernard Law Montgomery

Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.
~Leymah Gbowee

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
~Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.
~Kim Il-sung

To fight the United States is like fighting the whole world. But it has been decided. So I will fight the best I can.
~Isoroku Yamamoto

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We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.
~Vinoba Bhave (Indian pacifist)

We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
~Yoweri Museveni (Uganda)

A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You can have the best equipment in the world, you can have the largest numbers in the world, but, if you’re not dedicated to your cause, if you don’t have the will to fight, then, you are not going to have a very good army.
~Norman Schwarzkopf

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Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
~Mary Harris Jones

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
~Cesar Chavez

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
~Malala Yousafzai

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
~Eugene V Debs

We are all one – or at least we should be – and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.
~Roy Barnes

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When I was growing up, it was ‘Communists’. Now it’s ‘Terrorists’. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.
~Cindy Sheehan

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn’t bother fighting it.
~Craig Bruce

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
~Zell Miller

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.
~Anna Lindh

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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
~Madeleine Albright

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Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
~Mikhail Gorbachev

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~Guillaume Néry: AMA (6:36) at one with the water, to music

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~Ireneusz Mukiewicz: Fight (0:49) cat & dog, friendly ferocity

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~Ian Frederick: Flora (1:27) color, in a non-lethal explosion

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~adelaide sherry: Ashes and Snow (4:25) visual, then spoken. fluid poetry

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~The New Yorker: Affairs of the Art (16:25) scenes from an artisit’s life, unabashedly animated

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If you really believe that you’re making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets – not to have a fair fight.
~Michael Bloomberg

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
~June Jordan

If we don’t fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don’t really stand for them.
~Paul Wellstone

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The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
~James Rado

When I was saying, ‘White people go to hell,’ I never had trouble finding a publisher. But when I say, ‘Black and white unite and fight, destroy capitalism,’ then you suddenly become unreasonable.
~Amiri Baraka

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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
~John Lennon

Sometimes, you get tired of fighting. I think you just sort of come to this realization that yes, that you will get tired, but that doesn’t mean that you can give up the fight.
~Jesmyn Ward

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Fight hierarchy and bureaucracy as hard as you possibly can. Don’t ever let it become the master; always remember it’s the servant.
~Herb Kelleher

Just remember: if ever you feel weighed down by the bureaucracy and often mundanity of modern life, don’t fight the frustration. Let it be the catalyst for whimsy.
~James Veitch

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Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
~Tupac Shakur

When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.
~Queen Rania of Jordan

Do I think it’s OK to fight authority as long as you’re only talking about the high school teacher? No.
~John Mellencamp

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
~Yuri Kochiyama

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.
~Louis Farrakhan

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The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don’t think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.
~Frank Lowy

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
~George Orwell

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
~Henrik Ibsen

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
~Harriet Tubman

If I fall, I’ll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I’m not backing off.
~Fannie Lou Hamer

Every successful social movement in this country’s history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.
~Alicia Garza

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Police and firefighters are great, but they don’t create wealth. They protect it. That’s crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don’t create the wealth themselves.
~Rush Limbaugh

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They’re people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.
~Clarence Thomas

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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
~Karl Marx

If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.
~Sonia Sotomayor

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If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
~Norman Cousins

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The Declaration of Independence promised citizens equal access to economic opportunity. This was the powerful principle for which men were willing to fight the American Revolution, but it was never codified in law. When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they assumed that the country’s vast resources would ensure equality of opportunity.
~Heather Cox Richardson

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
~Adlai E Stevenson

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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
~Winston Churchill

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
~Winston Churchill

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In ‘The King’s Speech,’ patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn’t become complicated over time.
~Tom Hooper

On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a ‘Restoring Honor’ revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.
~James Wolcott

The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered [1949] without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.
~J G Ballard

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My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.
~Justin Trudeau

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I think that communalism [regionalism] is the cancer of our society, and if we have to protect the humanity and the unity and integrity of this country, then we will have to fight the communal forces.
~Mamata Banerjee (India)

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
~Ludwig von Mises

In America, now, let us – Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever – fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one’s enemies. A tall order, that – perhaps the tallest of all.
~Jon Meacham

Intersectionality has given many advocates a way to frame their circumstances and to fight for their visibility and inclusion.
~Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
~Thomas A Edison (pre-Hiroshima)

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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
~Ansel Adams

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it’s for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
~David Suzuki

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
~Margaret Thatcher

Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you’ve got to let them know it.
~Orlando Cepeda

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No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
~Winston Churchill

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I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
~Billy Sunday (prohibition)

I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.
~Douglas Rushkoff

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Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
~John Bolton

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We’ve got to keep an eye on the battle that we face – a war on workers. And you see it everywhere… And there’s only one way to beat and win that war – the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.
~James P Hoffa

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Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.
~Noam Chomsky

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No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
~Buenaventura Durruti (Spain)

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Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
~Wendell Willkie

You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
~Malcolm X

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Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
~The Waterbury American

Men fight for liberty, and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
~D H Lawrence

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We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
~Neville Chamberlain

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
~Luc de Clapiers

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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
~Fred Hampton

We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.
~Lal Bahadur Shastri

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
~Dwight D Eisenhower

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I despise all those who fight for peace. It’s only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.
~Ram Gopal Varma

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Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
~George Carlin

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
~Albert Einstein

I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies.
~Jose Maria Aznar (Spain)

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
~George McGovern

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§ VIDEO:

In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it’s a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.
~Novak Djokovic

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
~James J Corbett

Belief is the most important thing in football. Not quality, running, or being strong but belief, faith, and fight.
~Mauricio Pochettino

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
~Erwin Rommel

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Some guys like to fight on even playing grounds, and some guys like to cheat.
~Deontay Wilder

If you get into a fight, don’t take your helmet off. We’re looking for smart football players, not dumb ones.
~Mike Leach

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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses ‒ behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
~Muhammad Ali

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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.
~Ernest Hemingway

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Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events… and nothing is like the fights to me. I’m excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.
~LeRoy Neiman

Boxing, for me, it’s the beginning of all sports. I’m willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that’s something innate in all of us.
~Omar Epps

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.
~Joseph Barbera

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I don’t come and fight for fun. I don’t do that. I don’t like to hurt people for fun.
~Nate Diaz

I don’t fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.
~Khabib Nurmagomedov (Russian MMA)

I don’t fight to win or lose. I fight to entertain people.
~Justin Gaethje (MMA)

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I don’t know if pressure is the right word but I enjoy the anticipation and the hype for people either wanting to see me win or lose, it really doesn’t matter to me, as long as they’re watching that fight. I really enjoy all the feelings that come with building up a fight.
~Sean O’Malley

When you’re in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.
~Jenson Button

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
~Ben Carson

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If you want to be the best, you’ve got to beat the best. The only problem is when I get that belt, who’s going to be left to fight? That’s what I want to know.
~Donald Cerrone

A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness.
~Fedor Emelianenko

I ain’t asking no one to fight. I’ve got my throne. If you want it, come see me.
~Max Holloway (MMA)

You’ve got to have a villain and they’ll always make me a villain. I’m used to it ‒ it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.
~Floyd Mayweather, Jr

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Sometimes, there’s a fine line between bravery and utter stupidity. The day I decided to climb into a boxing ring for a professional fight was probably on the side of stupidity.
~Andrew Flintoff (tv presenter)

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There is no friendship out there. When you race, you have to fight. That’s it.
~Niki Lauda

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you ‒ until you get your revenge.
~Muhammad Ali

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won’t say anything a dignified man won’t say.
~Mike Tyson

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.
~Mike Tyson

There doesn’t need to be hatred after a fight, because it’s all said and done. I’m cool with a lot of my opponents in the UFC. There’s people I’ve fought who were my friends in kickboxing tournaments and after we were still cool.
~Israel Adesanya

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I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.
~Diego Maradona (Argentine fútbol)

A true champion will fight through anything.
~Floyd Mayweather, Jr

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
~Lou Holtz

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When I came into this business, there was a bar set for me. My goal is to push it as high as I can to make my family’s legacy even stronger. To add to the history that’s already been created. So for me, it’s a huge challenge that I’m willing to fight for every single day.
~Roman Reigns (wrestler)

I’m a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That’s all we do: we fight.
~Tyson Fury

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We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.
~Conor McGregor

Where is Conor? He wanna fight with a bus. I want to fight with a real gangster.
~Khabib Nurmagomedov (Russian MMA)

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I thought if you tapped out, you lost the round. Come to find out, you actually lose the fight.
~Chael Sonnen

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Every time you win, you get another fight. Every time you get a fight, you get promotion, marketing, and media. Those things are what makes stars.
~Chael Sonnen

I’m a prize fighter. Titles don’t pay bills. I fight for money. I’m making money. They’re making money. Everybody’s making money. That’s what this is all about.
~Brock Lesnar

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I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody.
~Nate Diaz

Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn’t wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn’t be in the sport.
~Nate Diaz

I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I’ve got a bright little future ahead of me ‒ especially if I don’t fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It’s not my idea of a good time.
~Nate Diaz (MMA)

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Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.
~Archie Moore

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.
~Muhammad Ali

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and – my father is a big fight fan – and I said, ‘Dad, I got a couple of days off and I’m getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.
~Wilt Chamberlain (7′ 1″, NBA)

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When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
~Mike Tyson

I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.
~Mike Tyson

I just want to do what I do best, and that’s fight. I love it.
~Mike Tyson

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
~Franklin D Roosevelt

I’m not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring.
~Mark McGrath

When I was a kid, I wanted to fight Joe Louis. But I think if I had seen Mike Tyson at that time, I would have said, ‘Nah, I don’t want to fight him.’ He’s deadly.
~Jake LaMotta

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Either I’m going out on my shield or you’re going out on your shield. That’s just what it is. I go out there and fight. I see an opening, I take it. You make a mistake, I take it.
~Anthony Johnson (MMA)

If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can’t make mistakes.
~Floyd Mayweather, Jr

There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself.
~Georges St-Pierre

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You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.
~Clint Eastwood

I question myself every day. That’s what I still find motivating about this. I don’t have the answers, I don’t pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.
~Andre Agassi

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From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance… Let us fight until the end. Let me try at least that ‒ fight.
~Pep Guardiola

We’ve always got to fight to the end and never give up no matter what the score is or how much time is left.
~Andrew Wiggins

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
~Bjorn Borg

That’s one thing you learn in sports. You don’t give up; you fight to the finish.
~Louis Zamperini

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~Sam Cutler-Kreutz: Flounder (9:45) karmic injustice

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~Even Hafnor: Fun Factory (11:07) …married much?

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~MAGNETFILM: The Gunfighter • Eric Kissack (8:49) reprised by right of title, and just because

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I don’t write polite letters. I don’t like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
~Roy Cohn

You’re in the game of life to fight. If you’re in business, and you’re not aggressively building, you shouldn’t be in.
~Jon Huntsman, Sr

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Almost everybody thinks that the fight is about ideology. Everybody will tell you, ‘Well, the fighting is all about the Middle East.’ ‘Well, it’s about Muslims starting jihad.’ ‘It’s about terrorism.’ ‘It’s about this or that.’ And no, it’s not. It’s about money.
~Roger Waters

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
~Thomas Friedman

Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It’s all about business.
~Ai Weiwei

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All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

…when deep-space exploitation ramps up, it will probably be the megatonic corporations that discover all the new planets and map them. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet Denny’s. Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first. Budweiser World.
~Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction. You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don’t need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don’t really need.
~Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

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We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is about helping them to regain their dignity and pride. That’s what families care about.
~Jodi Rell

We developed microfinance to fight loan sharks ‒ I was telling people don’t go to loan sharks – not trying to take advantage and make money for myself. I would be a junior loan shark if I did… It is not a panacea.
~Muhammad Yunus

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I never trust a fighting man who doesn’t smoke or drink.
~William Halsey

I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them.
~Jesse James

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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
~Johnny Cash

You have to be prepared to fight and finish your own battles.
~Jim Harbaugh

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The thing with me is if I feel disrespected I won’t hesitate to fight. But it takes a lot to make me feel disrespected.
~ASAP Rocky

I’ll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I’m going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
~Ferdinand Marcos

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
~William McFee

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My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.
~Whitney Houston

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I know how lucky I am, and I am aware that I have to fight the perception that I am also a spoiled brat.
~Freddie Fox

I’m going to make my own heaven. I’m going to struggle for it. I’m going to fight to earn everything I dream about.
~Francis Ngannou

My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.
~Vin Diesel

My owner is life and that’s what I fight for.
~Pitbull

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I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
~Andrew Cuomo

I think segregation is bad, I think it’s wrong, it’s immoral. I’d fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don’t need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.
~Clarence Thomas

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can’t we try something new and not be seen as suspect?
~Donald Glover

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.
~Paul Robeson

You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
~Bobby Seale

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§ MUSIC:

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
~Ansel Adams

The greatest lesson I’ve learned is that you have to fight and continue to strive for greatness, as nothing great ever comes easily.
~Natalya Neidhart

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
~Luciano Pavarotti

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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I’m naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
~Cameron Diaz

I hate learning lines, so the fight stuff’s always my favorite.
~Travis Fimmel

I’d rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.
~Johnny Depp

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Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I’d say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I’d only be in action films, but I’m interested in a more varied career than that.
~Famke Janssen

I’m fighting the label of “Black” actress simply because it’s very limiting in people’s eyes, especially people who are making movies.
~Whoopi Goldberg

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They’re so not me. That’s why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.
~Helena Bonham Carter

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When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!
~Chuck Norris

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.
~Loretta Young

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
~Cillian Murphy

As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I’ve never heard one say, ‘No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.’ They will always say, ‘You don’t like him? I’ve got somebody else.’ They’re totally spineless.
~Orson Welles

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What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don’t give up the ship, we have only begun to fight, it’s always darkest before the dawn.
~Orson Bean

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
~Michelangelo Antonioni

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I think there’s a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies. There will always be good movies but I think, for the most part, it’s always going to be a huge fight to get those movies made. TV is the best place to be as a writer, I think.
~Alan Ball

It’s the business of movies, it’s the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it’s the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It’s just not that fun.
~Matt Stone

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March.
~Tom Berenger

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Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
~Alex Winter

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.
~Maurice Jarre

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Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
~Billy Corgan

We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we’re very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.
~Keith Emerson

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I’m a big collector of vinyl – I have a record room in my house – and I’ve always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I’m writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
~Quentin Tarantino

The song ‘Tyler Durden‘ is about the movie ‘Fight Club,’ so obviously, it’s not a personal experience, but I love that song. It’s my favorite song.
~Madison Beer

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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
~Havelock Ellis

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.
~El DeBarge

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I don’t fight my ability to sing sad songs: it’s what I am good at, so I must be built for that.
~Patty Griffin

I’m a rock god? I’m five foot seven. I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That’s how I became tough ‒ I learned to pick up anything and fight back… A rock god!
~Roger Daltrey

I like Bob Marley’s attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn’t go to play, he went to conquer.
~Jon Fishman

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~The Decemberists: This Is Why We Fight (4:16) if war has a reason

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~Beastie Boys: Fight For Your Right (4:01) …to party

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~REO Speedwagon: Can’t Fight This Feeling (4:51) soft rock classic

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~Tracy Chapman: Born To Fight (2:43) turning anger into anthem

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~Post-Moderne: Colleen Brown • Fight fight fight (2:52) fight as love component

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~Rava Studios: Nickelback • Fight for All the Wrong Reasons (3:20) sword fight bonanza

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Never go to bed mad — stay up and fight.
~Phyllis Diller

I’d think, ’In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.’ Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn’t be married if your that kind of person.
~George Clooney

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don’t love.
~Jack Nicholson

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
~William Congreve

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It’s funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don’t like the way you look.
~Chris Robinson

It’s kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.
~Ron Livingston

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I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don’t want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
~Hedy Lamarr

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.
~Rube Goldberg

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I don’t believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it’s really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.
~Olivia Thirlby

You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
~Barry Goldwater

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At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn’t really see fighting.
~Kato Kaelin (OJ & Nicole Brown Simpson)

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.
~Abraham Lincoln

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I’ve been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.
~Loretta Lynn

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We’re like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
~Barbara Mandrell

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.
~Carnie Wilson

Your lips were tiny pink pillows,
and when we kissed it was like a pillow fight…
the kind you have when you feel completely comfortable
and belonging with another human soul.
~Kanaan

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For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.
~Ezra Miller

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn’t have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.
~Jane Fonda

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn’t mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it’s good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.
~Joni Mitchell

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My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.
~Julius ‘Judy’ Johnson

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He’s a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn’t speak to him for 10 years.
~Larry Elder

I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.
~Liam Payne

The ‘Tough Man’ contests were for 21-year-olds, but I weighed 150 pounds at 13, so I got a fake ID card and entered. My dad and uncles had given me an edge, so having a boxing background made it easier because a lot of the older guys didn’t know how to fight.
~Tommy Morrison

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad‒and he’s screaming right-wing, so there you are.
~Thom Yorke (Radiohead)

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can’t.
~Rodney Dangerfield

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And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.
~Sanford I Weill (banker)

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
~Princess Diana

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If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
~Ron Finley

Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.
~Nancy Wilson

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Everyone knows that if you’ve got a brother, you’re going to fight.
~Liam Gallagher

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I’ll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.
~Stevie Nicks

On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn’t have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon.
~Debi Mazar

We fight a lot, you know, but that’s family. We may be dysfunctional but we’re still family.
~Star Jones

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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
~Gary Becker

When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.
~Clara Zetkin

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
~Bob Geldof

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There’s a lot of things that go on when you’re on tour that cannot be controlled. I’m not even talking about myself, but of course there’s sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.
~Peter Steele

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
~Barry McCaffrey

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My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don’t fight that much now. I don’t look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you’re a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything… I mean it’s your mother, so I lost my mind.
~Shia LaBeouf

I’m sure everything has a bearing on what I’m doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there’s lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that’s about the education level we had in the family.
~Muhammad Yunus (Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate)

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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
~Garry Kasparov

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the ’70s and ’80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
~Patricia Ireland

The idea of winning a doctor’s degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
~Elizabeth Blackwell (a first in US medicine)

Whatever your fight, don’t be ladylike.
~Mary Harris Jones

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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won’t wait‒you can kick their ass right now.
~Cameron Diaz

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it’s best to go for the biggest one. That way you won’t have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.
~Suzanne Vega

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
~Agnes Smedley (activist/journalist)

I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.
~Amy Winehouse

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
~Dwight D Eisenhower

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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
~H L Mencken

Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
~Dee Dee Myers

Men spend their whole lives showing that they’re strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
~George Weinberg

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Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.
~Emmeline Pankhurst

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton (suffragist)

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We all fight over what the label ‘feminism’ means but for me it’s about empowerment. It’s not about being more powerful than men – it’s about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It’s about very basic things. It’s not a badge like a fashion item.
~Annie Lennox

Women have always been courageous… They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
~Isabel Allende

I’m not limited by my gender, and I don’t think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn’t fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood.
~Ellen Barkin

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In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
~Marlo Thomas

Women rule the world. It’s not really worth fighting because they know what they’re doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
~Jon Bon Jovi

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CAT is a mighty modest looking varmint — as meek as Moses around the house in the day time, but when a gentleman cat gets his fighting clothes on — I mean in full evening dress — and goes out into the highways and hedges and backyards and barns, there is something doing.
~Josh Billings

You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does ‒ but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you’ll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it’s the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it’s the sickening grammar they use.
~Mark Twain

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
~author unknown

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Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
~Muhammad Ali

When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.
~Mr T

I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
~Mike Tyson

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.
~George Foreman

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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
~Rodney Dangerfield

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won’t get a bikini wax.
~Rita Rudner

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
~George Carlin

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier… I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
~Steven Wright

I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, “I’m going to mop the floor with your face.” I said, “You’ll be sorry.” He said, “Oh, yeah? Why?” I said, “Well, you won’t be able to get into the corners very well.”
~Emo Philips

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.
~Robin Williams

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Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that’s why they never hit any home runs. It’s a safety issue.
~Jay Leno

Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
~Alan King

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
~Mark Twain

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation.
~Tom Wilson

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee – or laugh.
~Robert Orben

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I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.
~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.
~Muhammad Ali

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
~Blaise Pascal

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
~Miguel de Unamuno

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.
~Mr T

It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they’ve made their peace with death.
~Peter Thiel

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Ah, great it is to
believe the dream
as we stand in youth
by the starry stream;
but a greater thing
is to fight life through
and say at the end,
the dream is true!
~Edwin Markham

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Truck Side 66
© David Lorenz Winston

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The first rule of a pillow fight is, we don’t talk about pillow fights.
~Brad Anderson

The first rule of Pillow Fight Club? “Tell everyone.”
~Pillow Fight Club

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Unfortunately, the typical inner child is petrified of loud voices, Mylanta, and severe PMS, and therefore goes into hiding in times of stress. Should this happen to yours, you may need to acquire a dog, whip up some cupcakes, or initiate a pillow fight, since no inner child can resist any of these.
~Nancy Shulins

We both fell into relieved giggles. The laughs continued in tickling until we had worked into an all out pillow brawl.
~J J M Czep,

From what I could tell by the giggling and banging, there was a pillow fight of epic proportion in progress.
~Gerrit Gorter

When our bed is made it’s covered in forty pillows like we’re stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.
~Jim Gaffigan

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I remembered that something I’d said struck her as so laughable that she had picked up a pillow and whacked me in the head with it, which in turn had led to a pillow fight…
~Richard Delgado

Love is… when the only fights you have are pillow fights.
~Kim Grove Casali & Bill Asprey

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The best pillows for whacking are the big, fluffy sleeping kind… The best pillows for hurling are zipperless couch pillows. (Why do you think they call them throw pillows?)… Younger children love when you fall over dramatically after being hit.
~Anthony T DeBenedet, MD & Lawrence J Cohen, PhD

Everybody says pillow fights are good for children but a bit wearing on the pillows.
~Helen Marvin

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He downed the shot and it hit him like a pillow fight. He felt gently bashed and full of wonder.
~Lisa Moore

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows ‒ pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.
~Alice Walker

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Always jump in the puddles! Always skip alongside the flowers. Never turn down a good pillow fight.
~Terri Guillemets

A pillow fight and a good night’s sleep had done wonders.
~Janis Mackay

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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she’s had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
~Carlos Fuentes

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That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
~George Foreman

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Why is it that people who are troubled with insomnia are generally so proud of it?
~Evan Esar (20,000 Quips & Quotes, 1968 [So true! I think it’s kinda like being proud of your black eye after a fight. ~Terri Guillemets]

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I don’t think lying has any ultimate justification. I don’t think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That’s one of the challenges in a way.
~Andy Garcia

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The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
~Jules Verne

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It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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@Writers Platform

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
~Wislawa Szymborska

A catless writer is almost inconceivable; even Ernest Hemingway, manly follower of the hunting trophy and the bullfight, lived waist-deep in cats. It’s a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
~Barbara Holland

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.
~David Guterson

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Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it’s sunny, the next day it’s raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.
~Asghar Farhadi

I discovered the National Coalition Against Censorship when I felt totally alone in my fight to protect intellectual freedom, and that group changed my life. I was no longer alone.
~Judy Blume

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You can’t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I’m not writing ‘The A-Team‘ ‒ if there’s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.
~Terry Pratchett

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Do you know what a duvet is?… It’s a blanket. Just a blanket. Now why do guys like you and I know what a duvet is? Is this essential to our survival, in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word?
~Jim Uhls (Fight Club, script)

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
~Ama Ata Aidoo

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The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
~Walter Cronkite

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they’re watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.
~Bob Woodward

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
~Heinrich Heine

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
~Mark Twain

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Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can’t stop it. You can’t fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can’t go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.
~Marla Gibbs

Anything can be changed. Anything can be fixed. Things that are broken can be fixed. And you don’t have to be some billionaire or millionaire to do it. You just have to be a person with a vision and the passion to do it, and be willing to fight for it every day.
~Dana White

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The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
~Frank Serpico

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
~A K Antony

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At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
~Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
~Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

I just don’t want to die without a few scars.
~Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

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…you’re not how much money you’ve got in the bank. You’re not your job. You’re not your family, and you’re not who you tell yourself…. You’re not your name…. You’re not your problems…. You’re not your age…. You are not your hopes…
~Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

“If you don’t know what you want,” the doorman said, “you end up with a lot you don’t.”
~Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

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Prewritten Prompt: fight

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No, when the fight begins within himself,
A man’s worth something. God stoops o’er his head,
Satan looks up between his feet—both tug—
He’s left, himself, i’ the middle: the soul wakes
And grows. Prolong that battle through his life!
Never leave growing till the life to come!
~Robert Browning

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.
~Phil Knight

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Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.
~George Whitefield

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith – even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
~Karen Armstrong

For the most part, Islam is about peace. It’s dealing with submission to the most high. Mohammed is a prophet, a messenger. But at the same time, we’ll fight in the name of Allah. We’re not going to let you disrespect our prophet.
~Ghostface Killah

To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
~Abu Bakr

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I wouldn’t fight for religious freedom because I won’t fight for idolatry. Why would I fight for the devil to have as many false religions as possible and all of them to be available to everyone?
~John MacArthur

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
~Wayne Dyer

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight,
His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.
~Alexander Pope

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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
~Helen Keller

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
~Lydia M Child

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
~Malcolm X

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
~Plato

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Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.
~J C Ryle

For my own part, I do not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this. If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
~William James

It feels like a real fight, — as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem; and first of all to redeem our own hearts from atheisms and fears. For such a half-wild, half-saved universe our nature is adapted.
~William James

I don’t have an end game. Being a celestial being, I live for the moment to fight the Great War, and that is to light the darkness.
~Matt Hardy

As we become purer channels for God’s light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
~Marianne Williamson

Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer,
heeding the lights before the fight is over.
~Amanda Gorman

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Even though I don’t believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.
~Amber Heard

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
~Samuel Butler

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It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn’t claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.
~Scott Stapp (Creed)

How do I know that God is good? I don’t.
I gamble like a man. I bet my life.
Upon one side of life’s great war. I must,
I can’t stand out. I must take sides. The man
Who is a neutral in this fight is not
A man. He’s bulk and body without breath…
A fool. Weak tea!… I want to live, live out…
I must have God… I’d drink myself blind drunk,
And see blue snakes if I could not look up
To see blue skies, and hear God speaking through
The silence of the stars. How is it proved?
It isn’t proved, you fool, it can’t be proved.
How can you prove a victory before
It’s won?…
~G A Studdert Kennedy

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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
~Friedrich Nietzsche

The world of superheroes is black and white; the world of monsters is not. Sometimes you need evil to fight evil.
~Donna Langley

But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
~Isaiah Berlin

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.
~George R R Martin

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There’s a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it’s interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it’s totally different. It’s based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
~Bruce Lipton

But the name Ilomantis ginsburgae also honors Ginsburg’s “relentless fight for gender equality,” according to a press release… Because, as it happens, the scientists are fighting for equality of the sexes, insect-style.
~Camila Domonoske

You can’t fight for your rights if you don’t know what they are.
~John Roberts

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I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!
~Erin Gruwell

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
~Virginia Woolf

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I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I’ve been fighting so hard to have an education. It’s been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros’ pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.
~Emma Watson

I hope I’ve been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you’re committed to fight for your education, that anything’s possible.
~Susana Martinez

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If they would teach us from the time we’re little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn’t fight so much.
~Shirley MacLaine

Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
~Marian Wright Edelman

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Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally exhausted and depressed. I just hid myself away in my daughter-in-law’s flat.
~Maggie Smith

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.
~Christopher Hitchens

When you’re getting chemotherapy, you feel so alone, even when your family is there, or your friends are there with you. Sometimes it’s just you, feeling like you’re in a fight against something that you can’t control.
~Taboo

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
~Lance Armstrong (metastatic testicular cancer spread to abdomen, lungs and brain)

You know, once you’ve stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight.
~David H Koch

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With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.
~Kevin Whately

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Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, ‘It’s not just that it’s bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn’t even really give you a good buzz?’
~Katherine Heigl

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope ‒ and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
~Bob Riley

Addiction is a monster, and it’s a really difficult monster to fight.
~Stephanie Beatriz

I’ve had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.
~Kurt Cobain

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Arthritis, Crohn’s disease, psoriasis, depression ‒ all of those diseases are a result of our neglected biochemistry. We need to be stimulated to help fight disease. Cold is a great stimulator.
~Wim Hof

A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.
~Lee Haney

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I don’t really remember, but I’m positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something to eat. I’m sure that whenever I had a fight with the little girl next door, or it was raining and I couldn’t go out, or I wasn’t invited to a birthday party, my mother gave me a piece of candy to make me feel better.
~Jean Nidetch

You kind of did fight for food, so I filled up my plate. My dad would make us finish it, and I’d sit there crying because I’d have to finish all that food. I think that forced my stomach to stretch.
~Steven Adams

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We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.
~Jim Uhls (Fight Club, script)

Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer… Maybe self-destruction is the answer.
~Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, book)

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society’s method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
~Judy Collins

The leering face of guilt continuously scorned my want of courage. I needed humility, which is the foundation of courage. Guilt and courage were the soldiers fighting a war in me.
~Joanne Mazzotta (of suicide)

Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.
~Frank Bruno

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Homey don’t quit. What else are you gonna do? It’s like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it’s over they check the clock and go home. That’s how it goes.
~Chubby Checker

If I must have an ill, may it be real,
That I may meet it eye to eye and fight,
And wheresoever it may strength reveal
Get after it with all my main and might.
~John Kendrick Bangs

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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
~Paracelsus

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§ The Exercise:

storyline #4

tired and retired
defines the ending
flat tire and retired
not the same meaning
hard or soft landing
fight or flight required
frenemy depending

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bleak prospect

water battered rock
rain scattered sky
suggests a walk
when tearing up to cry
facing dread eternity
fighting for serenity
feeling life’s brevity
alone forever when you die

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it’s complicated

misguided fight
for life
chained to pain
endless strife
to continue
not sure, quite
curious question tho
Oh! that’s right
the reason:
curiosity,
demon halo
trident angel
toxic cure as
servant master
since it fueled
then it fought
already won
that fight
alive

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same page but different

the push and pull
in and out
back and forth
tug of war
when the knot became not
when the i-am-so-in…
becomes isn’t, anymore
are thinking love and marriage
yet reflect the twin effects of war
where dreams of merging empire
think to conquer by a smothering
local history as resistance
rich identity as subversive
forget the chronicles and lesson
genius rule of genghis khan
who knew to tax the richness
leave unique identity alone

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salinger

“I have my reasons.”
not to be bothered
fight against fame
call it anonymity
loneliness
blest by the spectrum
a solitude craving
insoluble in crowds

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surviving beauty

resist dissolving
fight being absorbed
the disintegration
that follows surrender

the dangers of beauty
that brook no resistance
gravity well of emotions
mistaken for love

captain of attentions
no other offers
itself temptation
sufficient alone

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the ladder

episodic increments
discrete measures of moment
incremental life
stacked memories
layered with fights

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finding out

the dawn long past
past sunset
now dusk of the day
crossing into darkness
then night, lights out
the no-fight blackness
or only the slackness
before consequence
the judgments
of finding out

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5s ‘n 7s

planned obsolescence
pranked as retirement:
fight to find reason
kick back and enjoy
give back in return
try to be useful
flee memories that burn

~

flight of an arrow
size of a sparrow
spying the narrows
photo the perils
humor, pure gallows
fighting for peace
managing quarrels

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delectable fates
beauty on a date
melons on a plate
felon in a fight
likely not so great
detectable hate
electable: checkmate

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Emotionally crippled
Tested love type: Avoidance
Rat for Art (prop business card)
Suggests Beauty play the part
Fight to heal then break his heart

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stray cat on a path
dog on the road pass
enemies at peace
fight’s wired fence between
young lass, meet-cute scene

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strive for quality
fight or all equality
call it sanity
kindness opportunity
do… as you do unto me

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foam as in ferment
fight’s detonating moment
future from foment
history poured into molds
diamonds buried in cement

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
~Alfred Adler

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We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong.
~Charles Glover Barkla

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
~Max Stirner

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If you want a name, you have to fight death.
~Milkha Singh

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
~Aldous Huxley

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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.
~George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
~Billie Holiday

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
~Alexandre Dumas

Don’t fight forces, use them.
~R Buckminster Fuller

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Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
~Norman Ralph Augustine

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
~Norman Ralph Augustine

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Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
~Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
~Robert Browning

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
~John Stuart Mill

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
~Franz Kafka

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I’ve had to learn to fight all my life – got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.
~Serena Williams

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
~Edward Teller

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You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
~William E Gladstone

First fight. Then fiddle.
~Gwendolyn Brooks

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The Olio
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The Salmagundi
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