Sticks Quotes - Page 4

• I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

  James Earl Jones

  Acting, Directors, Actors

  James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company

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• Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Principles, Flexible, Flexibility

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  Wally Schirra

  Dad, Airplane, Hands

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• Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

  Sakya Pandita

  Beauty, Men, Flames

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• It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

  George P. Shultz

  Kings, Eye, Aggravation

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• Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

  Seth Godin

  Dream, Long, Bigs

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.132, Penguin

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• What are you going to do when you get to eternity, if you can't stick in an hour with God down here?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Eternity, Hours, Ifs

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• A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.

  Dave Grohl

  Wall, Responsibility, Mean

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• Sandy deWitt at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris in Johannesburg, South Africa, taught me to make a decision and stick with it. Every day we're faced with reasons why we shouldn't do good work: it's too scary, too hard to pull off, there's no time, no money, etc. You have to be brave and commit to your choices in the face of adversity. If you waver, nothing will turn out the way you imagined it.

  Melissa Sue Anderson

  Adversity, Decision, Brave

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• I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.

  Bode Miller

  Couple, Together, Doe

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• You stick to the script, the script is Bible.

  Jennifer Garner

  Scripts

  "Jennifer Garner Interview - THE KINGDOM". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 27, 2007.

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• A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Civilization, Tree, Alive

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• Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable, would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my old cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Pain, Winter

  "The Man Who Loved Children".

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• Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

  Robert Browning

  Justice, Coats, Silver

  "The Lost Leader" l. 1 (1845). Refers to William Wordsworth.

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• Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome... Note how science changed those beliefs when new data became available. Religions stick to the same ancient beliefs regardless of the data.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Data, Religion, Alternatives

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• Well, the first thing we do is take our brain out and put it in a drawer. Stick it somewhere and let it tantrum until it wears itself out. You may still hear the brain and all the shitty things it is saying to you, but it will be muffled, and just the fact that it is not in your head anymore will make things seem clearer. And then you just do it.

  Amy Poehler

  Brain, Tantrums, May

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• Acting is secondary - I don't feel like it's going to stick around because it's not something I want to do forever. My art has always been my top priority and I have far more experience in that field than I do in film.

  Jemima Kirke

  Art, Priorities, Forever

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

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• These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

  Jenny Offill

  Burrs, Bits

  Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.78, Vintage

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• An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Lines, Landscape, Emotion

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• I remain committed to my core family as one I can trust and depend on. The end result is the assurance that I'm surrounded by the people who will help me, stick by me, and fight alongside me, through good and bad, life and death.

  Sonny Barger

  Fighting, People, Life And Death

  FaceBook post by Sonny Barger from Feb 15, 2015

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• It is very important that you should choose the person you will marry and stay with that person. There are many people now who believe in serial love, loving one person after another. I don’t think that is good for our mental health. I think we should get it over with. Love is like measles, you know. You only get it once in your lifetime and you are immune forever. I am very happy to say that is what happened to me. I am completely immune to any temptation. All men who have passed my life after I got married might as well have been sticks of furniture.

  Miriam

  Believe, Love Is, Men

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• God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.

  Jim Elliot

  Light, May, Praying

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• Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Humor, Rivers

  Attributed, in Hawker 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen' (1859) p. 197, though not found in Johnson's works. 'Notes and Queries' 11 December 1915

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• Why are you obsessed with fighting? Stick to fishing from now on!

  Tim Rice

  Fighting, Fishing, Obsessed

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• It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

  Jean Harris

  People, Watches, Would Be

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