In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
Leonard Bernstein
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I'd like to be in a play with Mark Rylance.
Julian Ovenden
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We shouldn't be too hard on vanity. It can be a mark of respect for the world.
Howard Jacobson
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It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art.
Eric Kandel
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The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
Elihu Root
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But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!
Charles Eastman
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To guard and to deal with others' goods as one's own is considered as the mark of proper trade among merchants.
Thiruvalluvar
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I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.
Lee Myung-bak
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You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.
George Clooney
LifeTimeShortYouNowMark
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
Aeschylus
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Mark Ruffalo is Mark Ruffalo - no explanation needed. He has the biggest heart of anyone I've ever met, and he's sort of the Dave Schultz of the entertainment industry.
Bennett Miller
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I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director.
Sami Gayle
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I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently.
Jesse Kellerman
FatherColdRememberFirstMark
Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
Orlando Bloom
AmazingDirectorMarkGuyJust
There are so many reasons to mark the passing of the great Joe Cocker - as many songs as he wrote, recorded and performed in his remarkable concerts. For me, Cocker was also the only performer who successfully covered and even improved on The Beatles.
Andrew Rosenthal
GreatMeMarkBeatlesOnlyConcerts
No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.
John Hurt
TryAnythingPeculiarMarkFilm
You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
Gaines Adams
YouKnowMarkYourMadeCover
Just so we're clear, Mark Watney is who I want to be. He has all the qualities I like about myself magnified without any of the qualities I dislike. Mark Watney isn't afraid to fly.
Andy Weir
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of the crucifixion found in Mark's gospel and discover that it is not based on eyewitness testimony at all.
John Shelby Spong
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A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.
Robbie Fowler
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Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.
Ruggiero Ricci
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