Steel Quotes - Page 6

• If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.

  Geraldine Chaplin

  Typical, Nerves, Normal

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• The subject of the novel is reality liberated from soul. The reader in complete independence presented with a structured process:let him evaluate it, not the author. The façade of the novel cannot be other than stone or steel, flashing electrically or dark, but silent.

  Alfred Doblin

  Dark, Reality, Objectivity

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• I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical refinery, construction, I did all that. It was great work, it was good. I learned welding, mechanic, carpentry, but it saved me from going back to prison because that's helpful. It's really sad because those jobs are gone.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Jobs, Welding, Gone

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• I eat a huge breakfast every morning - it's what I look forward to. I'll do steel-cut oatmeal with blueberries and strawberries, an egg white scramble with mushrooms, zucchini, and onion, and a piece of cinnamon Ezekiel bread with almond butter. I could do that every single day.

  Heather Mitts

  Morning, Cutting, Mushrooms

  Source: preview.www.realbeauty.com

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• Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

  John Piper

  Christian, Heart, Speak

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• My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• Instructed by history and reflection, Julian was persuaded that, if the diseases of the body may sometimes be cured by salutary violence, neither steel nor fire can eradicate the erroneous opinions of the mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Reflection, Fire, History

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.473, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

  John Milton

  Brother, Nymphs, Chastity

  John Milton, “Comus”

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• My rage is not malicious; like a spark
  Of fire by steel inforced out of a flint
  It is no sooner kindled, but extinct.

  William Goffe

  Anger, Fire, Sparks

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• My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

  Ed Asner

  Jobs, Cities, Kansas City

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• My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite countertops. It's very modest but there's tons of counter space, so you can slap down three or four cutting boards.

  Grant Achatz

  Home, Cutting, Islands

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• I have a mind like a steel trap. Stuff gets in there and WHAM! it never gets back out again.

  Bill Austin

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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• On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Snow, Important, Sparrows

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• In the '80s, I thought I'd be a success as a woman if I were the president of a billion dollar company, had a sensitive soul-mate husband, two bilingual children, buns of steels, and a compost heap. In the '90s, I pretty much feel I'm a success if I can get through the afternoon without eating a cheesecake.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Children, Husband, Two

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• I understand that this has taken a lot of politicians by surprise. But we believe that this is an important and right step for the steel industry.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Believe, Taken

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• We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Past, Challenges

  "Mittal profits drop by 63% but steel group still seeks big buys" by Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2005.

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• I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I work with a steel factory. Why can't I work with the media?"

  Aleksandra Mir

  Media, Criticism, Shy

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• No span of steel will tolerate...neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.

  Joseph Straus

  War, Should Have, Hazards

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• If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.

  Mark Cuban

  Writing, Would Be, Railroads

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• I use different kinds of materials on different kinds of projects. Today we can do things with steel and glass that we could not do before. flexible enough to change.

  Gottfried Bohm

  Glasses, Different, Use

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• If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel.

  Richard Bach

  Letting Go, Magic, Stronger

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• There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Country, Fall

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• In my own house I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know. Although I had received no technical education I made myself master of chemistry and of the laboratory, which proved of lasting value.

  Charles M. Schwab

  House, Evening, Determined

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• Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Fall, Sleep

  "Song: "Not Dark Yet" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.

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• As Gloria Steinem said about Ginger Rogers: She was doing everything Fred Astaire was doing, just doing it backwards in high heels. Well, Southern women are doing and enduring what other women have to do and endure, but (at least until recently) they had to do it in heels and hats and white gloves and makeup and a sweet smile, with maybe a glass of bourbon and a cigarette to get them through the magnolia part of being a steel magnolia.

  Michael Malone

  Sweet, Makeup, White

  "January Magazine", January 2002.

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