“ Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. ”
- Al Franken- Copy
- 431
“ Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. ”
- William Plomer- Copy
- 440
“ Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism — robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 626
“ There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep. ”
- John Irving- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 2.1K
“ When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
- 736
“ To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly. ”
- Robert A. Taft- Copy
- 694
“ Diebold controls 20% of the nation's voting machines.. totals can apparently be manipulated from outside the voting area. (on Diane Rehm Show) http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html. ”
- Howard Dean- Copy
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“ As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was Arthur's own money is something which I shall never know. ”
- Peter Porter- Copy
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“ Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor,... While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers. ”
- Tom Waits- Copy
- 1.8K
“ A large part of the people in Hollywood are sheep - and I don't say that unkindly, I say that politically - if Spielberg and Streisand and Geffen and the others were Republicans tomorrow, you would see a shortage of paper to try and change registrations. ”
- Jerry Doyle- Copy
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“ Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage — that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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“ I've never had sex with Benicio Del Toro in a lift. It was a sarcastic quote that I unfortunately gave to a journalist. I said: 'Apparently, Benicio Del Toro and I had sex in an elevator. He printed it, then all the tabloids took out the word 'apparently'… ”
- Scarlett Johansson- Copy
- 1.5K
“ It is a disgusting possibility that members of the Senate would actually try to politicize intelligence, especially at a time of war, even apparently reaching conclusions before investigations have been performed. ”
- John Kyl- Copy
- 958
“ Seemingly from the dawn of man all nations have had governments; and all nations have been ashamed of them. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
- 680
“ Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls. ”
- Rabbi Harold Kushner- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life. ”
- Ralph Ransom- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The only thing stupider than making a painting was making a representational painting, and of all the genres the most dead and seemingly bankrupt was portraiture. ”
- Chuck Close- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Creative people who have made their seemingly most self-indulgent artistic whims into a career. ”
- Steve Purcell- Copy
- 965
“ A very receptive state of mind… not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it. ”
- Minor White- Copy
- 28
“ It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.2K
“ As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. ”
- Margaret Cho- Copy
- 1.2K
“ In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 1.4K
“ All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing in of what is apparently at issue. ”
- Franz Kafka- Copy
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