Rolling Quotes - Page 8

• These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

  Diablo Cody

  Stones, These Days, Stills

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• The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.

  Diablo Cody

  Dresses, Band, Stones

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• I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

  Diablo Cody

  Hipster, Writing, Rocks

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• The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

  Albert Camus

  Fall, Punishment, Rocks

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.119, Vintage

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• The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.

  Billy Campbell

  New York, Real, Past

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

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• My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

  Chris Brown

  Voice, Albums, Firsts

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• I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Dad, Eight, Years

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• The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

  Bono

  Artist, Albums, Would Be

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• I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Journey, Guitar, Different

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• I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.

  Junot Diaz

  Dream, New York, Growing Up

  "Junot Díaz Aims to Fulfill His Dream of Publishing Sci-Fi Novel With Monstro". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy", www.wired.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.

  Beth Ditto

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Men, Air, Mph

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• Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you're pretending to be rolling around and dodging a foot or riding an ant, you're having to really do it seriously and there's nothing there. You've got to put faith in the process.

  Paul Rudd

  Stupid, Feet, Acting

  "ANT-MAN Set Visit: Paul Rudd Talks Suiting Up, Rewrites, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. June 22, 2015.

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• On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along the avenue their patient chime, the chattering of their wheels.

  Helen Garner

  Summer, Morning, Tunnels

  "Cosmo Cosmolino". Book by Helen Garner, 1992.

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• Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships

  Geri Halliwell

  Cutting, Knives, Lips

  Song: Passion, Album: Passion, 2005

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• These hurts I have are my fault but I'm sure gonna learn from it and hopefully anyone reading this will too. The lesson: stay aware on a bicycle and look up the road in front of you at all times to make sure you can deal with what's coming and the condition of the road you're gonna be rolling down!

  Mike Watt

  Hurt, Reading, Looks

  Personal Blog entry, www.hootpage.com. December 20, 2003.

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• And Potomac flowed calmly, scarce heaving her breast, With her low-lying billows all bright in the west, For a charm as from God lulled the waters to rest Of the fair rolling river.

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Lying, Rivers, Water

  Paul Hamilton Hayne (1970). “Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne”

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• Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. As onward from the sport I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.

  Hannah Flagg Gould

  Sports, Ocean, Hands

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• Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock.

  Evan Harris

  Rocks, Moss, Stones

  Evan Harris (1996). “The Quit”, Fireside

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• My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.

  Talib Kweli

  New York, Father, Grateful

  "Talib Kweli On Mainstream Hip-Hop And Honoring The Old School". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 24, 2013.

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• The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Bars, Looks, Band

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• I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosphere where it's possible that he doesn't get enough feedback, enough people rolling their eyes at him. It's a danger more in show business than it is with wealth.

  Penn Jillette

  Eye, Thinking, Interesting

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

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• I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.

  Hugh Jackman

  Sympathy, Devil, Stones

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• I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple.

  Michael Haneke

  Coffee, Simple, Long

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• Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day.

  Thomas Frank

  Flower, Political, Style

  "Joe Klein's Turnip Day" by Thomas Frank, observer.com. May 1, 2006.

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