Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much."
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Too Much
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Julius Caesar
Military General, Statesman
"If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition."
Sun Yat-sen
Revolutionary, Politician
"An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom."
Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator
"I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do."
Lauryn Hill
Singer, Songwriter
"I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work."
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"If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do."
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"Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much."
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"They say I drink too much... The only problem that I have is that I THINK TOO MUCH!"
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"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves."
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"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth."
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"Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure."
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"I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much."
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"I used to say, ‘Things cost too much.’ Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, ‘The problem isn’t that things cost too much. The problem is that you can’t afford it.’ That’s when I finally understood that the problem wasn’t ‘it’-the problem was ‘me.’"
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"At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest."
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"It's all too much and not enough at the same time."
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"Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying."
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"The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool."
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"Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much."
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"I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked."
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"I have composed too much."
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"I'm probably a bit of a cheeky grandson, like my brother as well. We both take the mickey a bit too much."
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"I'm lucky because I don't feel too much pressure - it's only in the last hour before the race, and even then it's good, positive pressure."
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"We are eating too much of the wrong thing, and not enough of the right thing"
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"To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor."
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"Seen too much, it's so hard for me to let new people in"
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