Corny Quotes - Page 5

• I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.

  Connie Willis

  Marriage, Sex, Gay

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• It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

  Nigella Lawson

  Sound, Life Is, T Shirt

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

  Wendell Phillips

  Tables, Today, Tomorrow

  Wendell Phillips (1982). “Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom”

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• It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

  Portia de Rossi

  Sound, Life Is, Private Life

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

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• A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

  Chet Atkins

  Long, Giving, Alternatives

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• It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think that this means... there is some kind of uniform world culture.

  Norman Spinrad

  Mean, Thinking, Age

  "A Conversation with Norman Spinrad". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

  Kirk Douglas

  Movie, Inspiring, Life Is Like

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

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• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

  Warren Rudman

  People, Sound, May

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• And to the rest of the world
  God gave you shoes to fit you
  So put 'em on and wear 'em
  Be yourself man, be proud of who you are
  Even if it sounds corny
  Don't ever let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful

  Eminem

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Rap

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• Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Taken, Knowledge, Mind

  Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

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• The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

  Patrick Marber

  Writing, Character, Play

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• Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Truth, Sound, Hearing

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Hate, Rocks, Differences

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• For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

  Lord Byron

  Country, Hunting, Literature

  'The Age of Bronze' (1823) st. 14

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• Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.

  Jung Chang

  Travel, Book, Fundamentals

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• In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

  Christopher Fry

  Life, Running, Play

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• I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

  Edward Victor Appleton

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Religious, Intention, Bans

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• You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

  Ann Beattie

  Writing, Self, People

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• You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

  Star Jones

  Spiritual, Emotional, Matter

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• Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.

  Steven Chu

  Mother, School, Focus

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• Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.

  William James

  Dream, Formulas, Exception

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• The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

  Yahoo Serious

  Stories, Formulas

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

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• I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

  Thom Gunn

  Trying, Want, Process

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• Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

  John Masefield

  People, Suffering, Tragedy

  John Masefield (1923). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield”

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