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Everybody got interested in How do I get mine? Which...

Everybody got interested in "How do I get mine?" Which motivates, I think, 99 percent of the opposition to the bill.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about motivation, bills

Competitive skaters must be prepared for lots of work, challenges, self-discipline, and motivation. The desire must be there, but more importantly, you're love for the sport.

Quote by Oksana Baiul about motivation, sport, self-control, work, love, contentment

That he delights in the misery of others no man will...

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Quote by Joseph Addison about man

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

Quote by Warren Beatty about motivation, actors, children, being

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my...

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Quote by George Gordon Byron

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others...

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about good, good luck

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to...

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Quote by Orson Scott about motivation, contempt, admiration, writers, miracle

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, ...

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about law

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself...

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

Quote by Placido Domingo about motivation, money

The motivation is probably less egocentric now in terms...

The motivation is probably less egocentric now in terms of my need to do it, but to work with great people.

Quote by Richard Gere about motivation, need, work, people

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary -...

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about authority, war, public, rightness

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his...

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, It's in the script. If he says, But what's my motivation?, I say, Your salary.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about film, motivation, salary, character, actors

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about secret

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is...

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about proudness, vanity, secret, being

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

Quote by George Oppen about poetry, things, world

This was the motivation behind my standing for parliament...

This was the motivation behind my standing for parliament as a candidate for the Payne and Pleasure Party in the Kensington by-election in July 1998.

Quote by Cynthia Payne about motivation, pleasure

Believe in yourself, have faith in your abilities....

Believe in yourself, have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale about motivation, faith, ability, happiness, contentment

Whatever it is that leads men to fight and suffer, to...

Whatever it is that leads men to fight and suffer, to face mutilation and death, the motive is not now self-interest in any material sense.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about suffering, interest, fight, self-control, common sense, sense, death, man, face

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for...

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

Quote by Jürgen Habermas about crime, moral

The motive power of democracy is love.

The motive power of democracy is love.

Quote by Henri Bergson about love, democracy, power

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