Formal quotes
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I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
-- Al Purdy -
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
-- Alan Perlis -
I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.
-- Ben Bernanke -
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My father had very little formal education.
-- Daniel Berrigan -
I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.
-- David Knopfler -
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.
-- Donald Barthelme -
Writing is like paying myself a formal visit…
-- Fernando Pessoa -
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Words are cold and formal things.
-- Harriet Hosmer -
The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.
-- Immanuel Wallerstein -
Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be a semi-formal occasion.
-- Jeff Lindsay -
This Being out of God cannot, by any means, be a limited, completed, and inert Being, since God himself is not such a dead Being, but, on the contrary, is Life; but it can only be a Power, since only a Power is the true formal picture or Schema of Life. And indeed it can only be the Power of realising that which is contained in itself a Schema.
-- Johann Gottlieb Fichte -
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I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.
-- John Henrik Clarke -
I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.
-- Josh Lanyon -
Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
-- Leslie Caron -
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
-- Mark Twain -
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Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.
-- Melissa Gilbert -
Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?
-- Pearl S. Buck -
[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.
-- Queen Elizabeth II -
But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.
-- Richard Serra -
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I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.
-- Ricky Martin -
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
-- Sarah Zettel -
Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?
-- Simon Doonan -
Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects.
-- Steve McConnell -
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I have no formal culinary training, right.
-- Thomas Keller -
The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.
-- Tony Hoare -
This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.
-- William Ernest Hocking -
A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
-- William Strunk, Jr. -
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I think the time of the formal dinners is over.
-- Wolfgang Puck -
There isn't a formal definition of success.
-- Ernest Sosa -
I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.
-- Kola Boof -
By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.
-- Lewis Schiff -
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There's no question that increased formal credentials can give you an advantage. The question is, is it the best advantage you can buy with the amount of money and time you're going to spend?
-- Michael Ellsberg -
Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.
-- George V. Higgins
