“ Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing. ”
- Elena Anaya- Copy
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“ Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
- 949
“ Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score; Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more; A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on, To make that thousand up a million; Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun. ”
- Robert Herrick- Copy
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“ Torturing the terrorist is unconstitutional? Probably. But millions of lives surely outweigh constitutionality. Torture is barbaric? Mass murder is far more barbaric. Indeed, letting millions of innocents die in deference to one who flaunts his guilt is moral cowardice, an unwillingness to dirty one's hands… ”
- Michael Levin- Copy
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“ If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night. ”
- Paul Hogan- Copy
- 2K
“ So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky. ”
- Russell Wayne Baker- Copy
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“ We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary. ”
- Everett Dirksen- Copy
- 649
“ I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me. ”
- Boris Becker- Copy
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“ Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor. ”
- William Cobbett- Copy
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“ Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health. ”
- Adelle Davis- Copy
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“ On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died. ”
- Sam Ewing- Copy
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“ I have thousands of opinions still, but that is down from millions, and as always, I know nothing. ”
- Harold Brodkey- Copy
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“ What creates dispair is the imagination, which insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. ”
- Andre Dubus- Copy
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“ I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? ”
- Harold Pinter- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I don't know what it is, but I can't look at Hulk Hogan and believe that he's the end result of millions and millions of years of evolution. ”
- Jim Murray- Copy
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“ I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research. ”
- Ralph Fiennes- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 2.4K
“ All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own. ”
- Sir Richard Francis Burton- Copy
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“ I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
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“ The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human. ”
- Barry Humphries- Copy
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