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• No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. (Andrew Carnegie) [amount/ability]
• No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. (Charles Francis Adams) [amount/greatness]
• Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of. (Walter Benjamin) [amount/time/life/form]
• The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. (Samuel Butler) [amount]
• No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. (Andrew Carnegie) [amount/ability]
• The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous. (Barbara Cartland) [people/america/amount]
• There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism. (Raymond Chandler) [people/memoirs/amount/honesty]
• Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. (Henry Ford) [business/amount]
• Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. (Bertrand Russell) [marriage/women/amount/sex]
• The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. (Henry David Thoreau) [thing/amount/willpower/life]
• Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. (Oscar Wilde) [joy/pain/amount/pain]
• To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. (Oscar Wilde) [amount/pleasure]
• Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. (Tori Amos) [generation/amount/time/change]
• It's an amazing thing, really, it's a legitimate language. There are only a certain amount of people in the world who can speak it, like Oxford professors and what not. It's such a beautiful language too, it's really brilliant. (Liv Tyler) [thing/language/amount/people]
• Well, my shrink's been trying to talk me out of that for many years. We used to have this discussion: 'Well, you know, I can't let go of [eccentricities] or I won't be creative anymore.' And then I decided ... it's good to let a certain amount go, so you can be a functioning person. (Adam Goldberg) [discussion/amount]
• There's nothing wrong with being naive. But, after doing x amount of time, don't throw your hands up in the air, because, you see, everybody wants the "the win," they want it today. It doesn't happen. (Al Lewis) [being/naive/amount/time]
• My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move. (Alfred Molina) [amount/money/think]
• I'll be with it as long as it takes. Certainly, in this business you need a tremendous amount of inner fortitude to be in it for any kind of length of time, and I've already been doing this for twenty years. I'm just going to keep on working on the things that reach me, the things that I want to be associated with and identified with, both as an actor and a filmmaker. (Andy Garcia) [business/amount/time/reach]
• It's not the same to read Gabrielle Garcia Marquez in Spanish than to read it in English in a translation. You lose a tremendous amount of subtleness. (Antonio Banderas) [english/amount]
• We're certainly going to fight for a reasonable amount of money. (Chris Tucker) [fight/amount/money]
• There isn't a place on Earth with the amount of beautiful ladies as LA. When you're young and starring in a successful TV show and playing the ladies' man-well, it's a good thing the show was cancelled, or I would have been old before my time! (Dirk Benedict) [amount/thing/time]
• We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change. (Don Cheadle) [amount/being/change]
• He gives a tremendous amount of time to clients and is completely focused on each of their careers. He's very hands-on, ... He's always been a straight-up guy in any business dealings. They're not poachers, and they don't home in on other people's clients. (Eddie Murphy) [amount/time/business/housing]
• The notion of belief, to believe for instance that Judas for a certain amount of money betrayed Jesus was always something I could not . . . it did not sit well with me. (Harvey Keitel) [amount/money]
• If you went into a 40,000-foot warehouse, even if you just light a match the match pierces the darkness. It pierces even in the vast amount of darkness. As I see it, the movie is a light, it is a match. (James Caviezel) [light/darkness/amount/darkness]
• With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. (Johnny Depp) [amount]
• I was known as 'Ray, Head of Security' in the bookstores and stuff where he was signing books. I just spent an enormous amount of time with him and watched him like a hawk. Studied him. I tried to steal his soul. (Johnny Depp) [books/amount/time]
• For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work. (Lee Majors) [soul & body/amount]
• “There's no amount of money that would make me decide something for a career.” (Eva Longoria) [amount/money]
• “It was a week of recovery, but I'm feeling great. I was really blown away by the amount of concern (generated) by my bump.” (Eva Longoria) [feeling/amount]
• I read a little about Nitti. They had sent me some stuff, I did some research and I knew a bit about him before, but there's not a tremendous amount about him. (Stanley Tucci) [amount]

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