Top 100 Is What Quotes

#1. Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

Damon Knight

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#2. I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

Meg Rosoff

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#3. There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.

Ahmed Yassin

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#4. A collison is what happens when two motorists go after the same pedestrian.

Bob Newhart

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#5. We are built to desire free will and to choose our own destiny. It's not about being right or wrong; it's about the celebration of life, your free will. The human spirit must constantly be fed. It is what makes us survive.

DeiAmor Verus

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#6. Life is what you make of it. I make believe.

Amelia Cole

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#7. Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.

Thomas J. Stanley

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#8. I have art. I have music. I have the history, this legacy behind me that I can look up to. This is what I believe in. If you want to call it God or spirituality, that's all up to you. Basically I believe in something that's bigger than myself, and that gives my life meaning.

John Zorn

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#9. Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.

Julia Cameron

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#10. Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

T. S. Eliot

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#11. Reality itself is [made up of] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe, and just about anything a human being can imagine.

DJ Spooky

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#12. A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.

Jason Katims

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#13. Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.

Helen Keller

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#14. I may know I am better than an 18, but the computer absorbs my scores year after year and continues to tell me that is what I am. Therein lies the tragedy of golf. We know what we should be, but there is always some number telling us what it is ...

Peter Andrews

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#15. Having children is not something you do if you have time, having children is what God gave you time for.

Neil L. Anderson

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#16. He created a craving. And that craving, it turns out, is what makes cues and rewards work. That craving is what powers the habit loop.

Charles Duhigg

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#17. What you see when you find yourself is what will help you ... or destroy you.

Umair Naeem

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#18. Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

Arundhati Roy

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#19. Trust, faith,good, bad ... none of it matters. All you ever do is what you have to do. Follow your disires, fulfill your needs, escape from pain. That's all there is to it.

Kevin Brooks

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#20. I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end of the day.

Danny McBride

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#21. You have the power to bring out the best or worst in people. Focus on the good in people and that is what you will get more of. Focus on peoples potential and you can bring out the best in them. The power is in your focus.

Jeanette Coron

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#22. You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.

Tim McGraw

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#23. The city is full of terrible actors. That is what historians never say about Madras, it is filled with hams.

Manu Joseph

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#24. What you practice, is what you'll do

Benny Urquidez

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#25. Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?

Edward Felten

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#26. The excess energy released from overreaction to setbacks is what innovates!

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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#27. Treasure, that is what you are

Bruno Mars

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#28. Your life is what you see in front of you.
-An-mei

Amy Tan

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#29. All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

Jorge Luis Borges

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#30. To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

Laura Lang

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#31. The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'

Emma McLaughlin

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#32. My message for all my readers is: Don't believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don't believe, that maturity is a goal and an asset to go after. Nothing will ever be ready, that is what makes life interesting. Read!

Tuula Kallioniemi

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#33. That idea of comparison is what fans do. That's why fans exist. They believe in something and something connects to them, and they have passionate feelings and opinions about films.

Zachary Quinto

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#34. There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.

Joseph Campbell

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#35. When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you're after.

Bill Crawford

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#36. Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses.

Samuel Pepys

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#37. I don't think famous is what I necessarily went for. The media was never something I really looked into and as I see it happening to me, I think I was very smart when I was younger to not want that. It doesn't mean it's not going to happen, I just avoided it as much as possible.

Miley Cyrus

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#38. Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.

Walter Darby Bannard

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#39. Without fear I go now to God. Your future is what you will choose today.

Malachi Ritscher

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#40. But that is what life is all about, he said. It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love.

Mary Balogh

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#41. When you expect something from your self and your own self disappoints you ... this is what i call a real disappointment . The worst disappointments comes from in-within.

Sameh Elsayed

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#42. Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away.

Mark Haddon

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#43. Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it discourages them from kissing, touching, and coming closer to you, which is what they really want to do!

Helen Fisher

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#44. If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

Kristin Scott Thomas

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#45. Imagination is what you need.

L.M. Montgomery

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#46. What you do on travel holiday is what your memories are based on. People want to do cool stuff, and this is what will shape your entire experience.

Ruzwana Bashir

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#47. This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.

Bill T. Jones

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#48. This is what I term a reduction lifestyle - reduce excessive consumption, unnecessary obligations, and overbearing clutter. When

Cristin Frank

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#49. Household: that is what we are. The Commander is the head of the household. The house is what he holds. To have and to hold, till death do us part. The hold of a ship. Hollow. Cora

Margaret Atwood

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#50. So much of life is what you roll and where you land.

Mark Hamill

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#51. Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner.

Slavoj Zizek

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#52. Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.

Eknath Easwaran

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#53. Concentration is not wholesome in itself. A thief needs concentration to break into a house.
The object of our concentration is what makes it beneficial or not. If you use meditative concentration to run away from reality, that is not beneficial.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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#54. A film is different than a script. The text of the script is what it is.

John Curran

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#55. Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.

Willard Wigan

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#56. This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.

Anne Rice

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#57. All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

Eli Siegel

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#58. Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Jacques Derrida

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#59. Tradition is what is in the heart and soul of your home, your country, and social environment. Tradition evolves, and it changes regardless of what you do to maintain it.

George Blake

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#60. The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.

Clint Eastwood

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#61. If you really want to find your voice, your goal is to journey toward inner wholeness
which is what life is about anyway. It involves self-acceptance and genuine self-respect.
from Unleash the Writer Within

Cecil Murphey

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#62. That is what I wish, I wish to be martyred.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

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#63. But the most important thing is that we keep loving. We have to believe that at the end of the day, the love we have is worth all the bad stuff, because all the good stuff is what makes it so amazing.

Kandi Steiner

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#64. The comic strip is what I looked at, and it's another reason I did it. The comic strip, where animals would comment on human behaviour, interested me.

Garry Shandling

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#65. When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

Marya Hornbacher

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#66. Perfection, my dear being,
is what you are.
Let not your mind
obscure your view.
Be still and be aware,
right where you are,
you cannot miss it.

Santosh Lamichhane

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#67. We can't say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who one is, what we're here for, how to live more poetically.

William Segal

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#68. Our uniqueness is what makes us common. It is the same fact that we are unique that we as individuals have in common.

Morena Baloyi

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#69. Clearly the West Indies are going to play their normal game, which is what they normally do

Tony Greig

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#70. The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.

Jennifer Lopez

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#71. Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.

Karl Kraus

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#72. Low maintenance is what's forgettable.

Gena Showalter

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#73. Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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#74. With any medium you are working in, technical skills obviously help, but your mind is what you really need to expand. That is how you create work. That's the role of the artist - to change the way you view things.

Petra Collins

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#75. You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#76. My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.

Victoria Moran

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#77. I'm always amused that people zero in on one thing, and it's the wrong thing to zero in on, but nevertheless, the reason they do that is because the voice is what they know - the voice represents everything about the character, that's why.

Frank Oz

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#78. The future is what's wrong with the world today. There's too much future and not enough past!

Archie Bunker

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#79. Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.

Ernest Hemingway,

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#80. It was a beautiful, harmonious, peaceful-looking planet, blue with white clouds, and one that gave you a deep sense of home, of being, of identity. It is what I prefer to call instant global consciousness.

Edgar Mitchell

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#81. This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Plato

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#82. A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

Howard Gardner

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#83. We were placed on earth to fulfil a purpose, and that purpose is what gives meaning to our lives, you were sent to the world to make an impact and make a difference

Myles Munroe

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#84. A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Thomas Jefferson

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#85. No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

Daniel Keyes

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#86. Mr. Huang's nickname was Old Yellow, because that is what his name literally meant and he was the senior person in the office.

Theresa MacPhail

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#87. I don't think success is what we've made of ourselves; I think it's what we've made of others.

Bob Goff

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#88.
Why yes he thought it ain't a place a man wants to go back to; the place dont even need to be there no more. What aches a man to go back to is what he remembers.
from ... THE MANSION page 106

William Faulkner

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#89. Look at yourself, you're old, too, but still doing your work. This is what we are, Philips. This is what we are.

Waheed Ibne Musa

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#90. Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

Mike Ditka

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#91. It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

Ian McEwan

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#92. IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.

Andrei Tarkovsky

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#93. What we have in common is what keeps us apart.

Louise Bernikow

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#94. Besides almonds or granola, I don't eat a lot during the day - juicing is what gives me energy.

Kelly Wearstler

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#95. Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.

Tony Evans

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#96. I have come to terms with the fact that it's called pop music - that's what I play, and that is what I write. I think it is a pretty broad category.

Tyler Hilton

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#97. You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves it barren. Human tumbleweeds drift across its streets, predators hide in the rocks.

Michael Connelly

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#98. A blanket could be used to cure the common cold. I mean, come on it's just common sense. A blanket is warm, and if a cold is what it's named, then a blanket would transform a cold into some nameless nonentity. Take that, Louis Pasteur.

Jarod Kintz

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#99. There are some people, be they black or white, who don't want others to rise above them. They want to be the source of all knowledge and share it piecemeal to others less endowed. That is what's wrong with all these carpenters and men who have a certain knowledge. It is the same with rich people.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

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#100. You're always telling me to be more assertive and speak my mind. This is what I look like when I speak my mind. I can drink what I like, I can work where I want to work, I can have sex with anyone I want to have sex with. I don't need public approval.

Anonymous

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