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Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
Steven Spielberg

Success, Failure, Proud

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Elizabeth I

Rather, Married, Queen

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Before, After, Whole

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fact, Once, Results

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
Vivien Leigh

Night, Audience, Nervous

I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.
Michelle Obama

Love, Change, Business

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.
Donald Rumsfeld

Learning, Before, Except

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Paul Cezanne

Revolution, Off, Coming

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Hu Shih

Soldier, Her, India

I'll tell you one thing, since I'm married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.
Jerry Seinfeld

Tell, Married, Since

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
Nido Qubein

Great, Greatest, Done

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda

Change, Great, Society

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
Al Sharpton

Life, Family, Food

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Jose Marti

Love, Greed, Everything

Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.
Michelle Malkin

Fight, Down, Find

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Ed McMahon

Success, Important, Honesty

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
Aeschylus

Blood, Though, Hand

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Horace Mann

End, Year, Reading

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
Robert Anton Wilson

Become, Idea, Liberal

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
Ramana Maharshi

Freedom, Spiritual, Thought

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
Henry James

Age, Regret, Youth

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
Samuel Goldwyn

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
P. T. Barnum

Work, Done, Leaving

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese

Power, Strength, Cannot

I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.
Drew Barrymore

Life, Love, Design

It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.
Ann Romney

True, Together, Country

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.
Steve Irwin

Goes, Straight, Earn

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.
John W. Vessey, Jr.

Language, English, Lack

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
Penelope Cruz

Life, Happy, Someone

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Plautus

Friendship, Two, Soul

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