"The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement."
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"I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons."
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"The journey makes things valuable not the title. Learn to enjoy and value the process of what God is doing."
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"A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious."
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"The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add."
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"In fact, [Gene Wilder] had made a hysteric seem considerably less funny in his film debut as a terrified undertaker in "Bonnie And Clyde." And neurotics soon became his stock-in-trade, whether he was playing the weird title character in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory...""
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"A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book."
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"Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different."
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"Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way."
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"Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior."
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"We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany."
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"I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient."
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"IF YOUR JOB IS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, YOUR REAL JOB TITLE IS PROBLEM SOLVER."
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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
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"I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name."
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"I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay."
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"To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title."
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"Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?"
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"When my title was taken away boxing died."
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"Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation."
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