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My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well.
Jess Walter
Tags: Poetry Me Thing
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is almost impossible to divorce sport from politics, but sport is such a positive factor in today's society - there is nothing else which will bring so many people together in that atmosphere.
Lynn Davies
We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.
Melina Mercouri
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
John Charles Polanyi
If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest.
Tobias Hill
Tags: Time People Say
I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.
Maya Angelou
I have the philosophy of yes. If anybody asks me to do a job, I say, 'Yes.' I've said yes to everything.
Sylvester McCoy
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It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.


Lord Melbourne
Tags: Which Much Say
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It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.


Charles Eames
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Being in Hawaii, it's almost impossible not to be fit, I think.


Henry Ian Cusick
Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
Maria Montessori
It's almost impossible to have security at the expense of insecurity of others. It's almost impossible to have prosperity when there is a huge problem of poverty and backwardness all over the world.
Mohammad Javad Zarif
Tags: World Over Others
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In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.


Friedrich Nietzsche
I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.
Eugene Levy
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It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.


Robert Wilson Lynd
Tags: World How Place
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Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.


Penelope Spheeris
Tags: Music About Out
I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.
Sue Grafton
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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.


Jack Vance