Beating A Dead Horse Quotes

• Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

  Groucho Marx

  Marriage, Funny Love, Witty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.

  Puff Daddy

  Dream, Horse, Hip Hop

  "Combs Says P. Diddy Not About The Bling-Bling" by Sway Calloway, www.mtv.com. March 30, 2001.

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• You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.

  Jim Knight

  Horse, Whipping

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• I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

  Woody Allen

  Sarcastic, Horse, Sadism

  "Fictional character: Tiger Lily". " What's Up, Tiger Lily?", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!

  Ray Bradbury

  Horse, Moving, Book

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• It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.

  Owen Hart

  Fake People, Horse, Wrestling

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• We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, "My character this, and my character that." Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don't have to explain it to me.

  Bob Dylan

  Horse, Character, Who Cares

  Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 13, 2009.

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• There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

  Aaron Watson

  Cheating, Song, Horse

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