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Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
‐‐ David Byrne -
Most of our models have just walked in off the streets, although I also find them on countless trips to Europe - particularly Scandinavia. I operate by instinct. It's a process I cannot explain, but the prettiest girl on the block is not always the best model.
‐‐ Eileen Ford -
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden -
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson -
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
‐‐ James Harvey Robinson -
Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.
‐‐ Jonathan Haidt -
Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
‐‐ Levon Helm -
Most of our technology issues aren't partisan.
‐‐ Suzan DelBene -
Most of our writers tend to be recorders.
‐‐ Gore Vidal -
Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a neutral, human-accessible form.
‐‐ David J. C. MacKay -
Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.
‐‐ Thomas Frank -
Most of stuff I audition for is stuff I think is socially relevant.
‐‐ Ben Schnetzer -
Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.
‐‐ David Coverdale -
Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon's main stem was connected to the Niger River and actually flowed in the opposite direction, toward the Pacific Ocean.
‐‐ Alex Shoumatoff -
Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences.
‐‐ Brendan I. Koerner -
Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.
‐‐ Herman Cain -
Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
‐‐ Ralph Bakshi -
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
‐‐ Robert South -
Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.
‐‐ Benjamin Netanyahu -
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
‐‐ Robert Benchley -
Most of the art I have is more on the beautiful side than the violent or disturbing side.
‐‐ Agnes Gund -
Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie.
‐‐ Shannyn Sossamon -
Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
‐‐ Gail Carson Levine -
Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.
‐‐ John Cleese -
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
‐‐ Elizabeth Goudge -
Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.
‐‐ Isaac Brock -
Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps -
Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.
‐‐ Harold Prince -
Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
‐‐ Saadi -
Most of the black women who lived in the lower end of Vrededorp came from the countryside and were there to be near their menfolk who worked in the mines. They spoke neither English nor Afrikaans.
‐‐ Peter Abrahams -
Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.
‐‐ David Nicholls -
Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.
‐‐ Tony Dungy -
Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.
‐‐ Charlaine Harris -
Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value.
‐‐ Caroline Kennedy -
Most of the catfish you find at the fish counter has been farmed. Though I usually prefer to buy and eat wild fish, farmed catfish taste cleaner, without the muddy taste of their wild relatives.
‐‐ Tom Douglas -
Most of the Catholics Christians I've met would for all practical purposes believe Jesus is God only, and we are human only. We missed the big point. The point is the integration, both in Jesus and ourselves.
‐‐ Richard Rohr -
Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions.
‐‐ Elie Metchnikoff -
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
‐‐ Robert Frost -
Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.
‐‐ Alice McDermott -
Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.
‐‐ Kevin Kline -
Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.
‐‐ Alexei Sayle -
Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
‐‐ Orville Redenbacher -
Most of the computer compromises that we hear about use a technique called spear phishing, which allows an attacker access to a key person's workstation. It's extremely difficult to defend against.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick -
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
‐‐ Tennessee Williams -
Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river.
‐‐ Ann Rutherford -
Most of the countries in the world are outside the E.U., and they are doing very nicely, thank you.
‐‐ Nigel Lawson -
Most of the cricketers are doing side businesses apart from playing the sport, so why should I be left behind. I feel there is a lot of money in making films, and since Punjabi cinema is doing good, this is a lucrative option for me.
‐‐ Harbhajan Singh -
Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.
‐‐ Anthony Browne -
Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.
‐‐ Suzanne Fields
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