Insist Quotes
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.
John Henry Newman
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
Baltasar Gracian
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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it
Terry Pratchett
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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Insist upon yourself. Be original.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject: Doing Your Best Quotes :: Originality QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such m...
Theodore Roosevelt
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
7 Zuma 7
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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis
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[Talking about his dressing room demands] Because I`m a spoiled little brat, i absolutely always insist on a table and chair and lighting. This February I`m even going to demand heating.
Freddie Highmore
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I insist on keeping a level head. I`ve maintained the same exact home life that I`ve had for 20 years. All I see is more people looking at me than before. But, you know, who cares? You just can`t obsess yourself with this fame stuff.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there`s something wrong.
Richard Pryor
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I`ve been killed often, on film, the stage, and the television tube. Studios insist the audience doesn`t like this. It`s been my experience that it makes them unhappy, but that`s not the same thing. In any event, they often attend those undertakings where...
Charlton Heston
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I insist on keeping a level head. I`ve maintained the same exact home life that I`ve had for 20 years. All I see is more people looking at me than before. But, you know, who cares? You just can`t obsess yourself with this fame stuff."
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.
Kevin Nealon
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Why do you always insist on playing while I`m trying to conduct?
Aleksander Hemon
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We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.
Amy Drake
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They insist we eat with them and the pork, chicken and beef dishes is the best I`ve ever had.
Carol Hughes
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They insist on having a public relations extravaganza, probably at some cost to the taxpayers . . . to rehash a bunch of old promises (and) make a few new ones,
Arthur Bryan
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The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
William Barclay
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The people must insist on the truth from our elected officials and our news media,
Ross Anderson
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Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they`re lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.
Ben Bradlee
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Shouldn`t Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?
Bill Kristol
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
Andrew Anagnost
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Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it`s hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.
Ali Abdel Fattah
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My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn`t counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.
Colleen McCullough
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
Alain de Botton
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Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It`s the attitude that`s in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
August Wilson
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It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.
Alan Tucker
