Hills Quotes - Page 10

• Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.

  Janelle Monae

  Enemy, Wonder, Great Music

  "Hot Tracks: Janelle Monáe". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. September 2012.

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• A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

  Michael Moore

  People, Want, Capitol Hill

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• If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

  Charles Morgan

  School, Years, Law

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• I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

  Grandma Moses

  Top Down, Sky, People

  Tampa Bay Magazine, p. 205, January/February 2008.

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• I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

  Pablo Neruda

  Rain, Voice, Rivers

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• My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Samaria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Son, Land, Names

  Address to the U.N. General Assembly, mfa.gov.il. September 23, 2011.

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• Having animals in the city is entirely different from having animals out in the country. For one thing, it's more social. When you live on lots of acres without neighbors within a stone's throw, your dog-walks are usually solitary rambles over hill and dale.

  Susan Orlean

  Country, Dog, Animal

  "The Social Animal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2011.

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• My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.

  Tony Parsons

  Teenage, Years, Trying

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• I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it.

  Mike Pence

  Children, Wall, White

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

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• Like every American, I will never forget where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001. As a member of Congress from Indiana, that day my duties took me to Capitol Hill and to sights and sounds I will never forget.

  Mike Pence

  Morning, Sight, September 11

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

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• The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

  Mike Pence

  War, Reality, Hiking

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

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• I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.

  Karl Pilkington

  Weather, Mosquitoes, Gorillas

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

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• I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.

  Jason Reitman

  Waiting, Parent, Beverly Hills

  "INTERVIEW: Jason Reitman Made Unmakeable Young Adult for $12 Million". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2011.

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• I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.

  Ja Rule

  Beverly Hills, Heroic, Cop

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

  Salman Rushdie

  War, People, Watches

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• An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Cities, Littles

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.122, John Ruskin

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• At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.

  Bob Schieffer

  Independent, White, House

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• If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!

  Shel Silverstein

  Life Lesson, Thinking, Track

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• Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

  Kevin Spacey

  Inspirational, Success, House

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• I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.

  Jordin Sparks

  Cities, Auburn, Downtown

  "Jordin Sparks SPARKLE On-Set". Interview with Heather Warburton, collider.com. May 9, 2012.

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• Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'

  Eliot Spitzer

  Country, Jobs, Wall

  "Kill the JOBS Act!" by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. March 19, 2012.

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• As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

  Ben Stein

  Beverly Hills, Becoming, Conservative

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• If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Walks, Looking Down

  Gertrude Stein (1969). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes”

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• Faith Hill is a big role model.

  Taylor Swift

  Role Models, Roles, Bigs

  "Taylor Swift Still Cares About Being A Role Model". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2011.

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• Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Break Up, Revenge, Men

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.45

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