Earnest Quotes
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I don`t `handle` people. It`s so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It`s very easy to say whatever`s going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It`s difficult to be forthri...
Jon Favreau
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But I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They`re so earnest about it. But that`s true of so many things.
Christopher Guest
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The perfect balance of earnest sincerity and sarcastic megalomania. (On the album "Achtung Baby" by U2)
Darren Hayes
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We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.
Gray Davis
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We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
Alex Klein
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They need to know that there is a significant amount of money there before they can plan in earnest,
Arthur Cayley
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The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
Kim Cattrall
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Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill
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No segment of society is more strategic and in more in need of prayer than pastors and their families, ... They urgently and desperately need our love, encouragement and earnest prayers.
Aneisa McDonald
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My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.
Janet Reno
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Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
Marcus Garvey
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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Andre Bakhos
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama
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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.
Alex Thompson
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If we don`t make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.
Louis Farrakhan
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I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.
Claire Danes
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman`s family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
AJ Nicholson
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I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.
Alexander Izosimov
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Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the...
Alma Jones
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Cosmo`s always had a really authentic voice -- there`s no B.S.. We don`t have that earnest voice that a lot of women`s magazines do.
Arthur Rockwell
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About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.
Gene Tierney
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I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
Aaron Rouse
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I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
