Streaks Quotes - Page 2

• With football, you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two-game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

  Tom Brady

  Sports, Football, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Positive, Sports, Winning

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• Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.

  Michael Schenker

  Depressing, Gold, Very Depressed

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• It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.

  Roger Staubach

  Sports, Mean, Eye

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• One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Doors, Losing, Symptoms

  "Building a winning boardroom team". www.cnn.com. May 16, 2005.

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• I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out.

  Alexis Arguello

  Nice, Fighting, Winning

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• If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Women, Literature, Dry

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8702, Delphi Classics

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• There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level

  Parker Posey

  Men, Leaving, Levels

  Interview with Christina Kelly, www.indexmagazine.com. 1996.

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• The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
  Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Clouds, Light

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1851). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare...: embracing a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected...”, p.175

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• I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.

  Hector Elizondo

  Matter, Never Quit, Quitting

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

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• I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Thinking, Wind, Faces

  "Planet Of The Apes : Interview With Helena Bonham Carter". www.cinema.com.

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• I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

  Florence Welch

  Real, Self, Destructive

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• Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.

  Sonia

  Luck, Stubborn, Talent

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• For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.

  Paul Feig

  Strong, Crazy, Years

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• So many people know about the dangers of sunbeds but when you have a busy active lifestyle you need a product that you can use quickly and doesn't streak or leave you with orange hands.

  Peter Andre

  Orange, Hands, People

  "Peter Andre strips to talk Fake Bake but does this kind of man-tanning turn you on or off?". Interview with Gilly Ferguson, www.mirror.co.uk. April 17, 2012.

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• There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Radio, Host, Paranoid

  "Obama on Surveillance; Privacy vs. Security; Valedictorian Breaks Rules". "CNN Newsroom" with Brooke Baldwin, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2013.

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• I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

  Barbra Streisand

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

  David Bowie

  Brother, People, Majority

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.21, Melville House

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• The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Identity

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• A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.

  Herb Caen

  Girl, Flower, Dark

  Herb Caen (1967). “San Francisco, City on Golden Hills”

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• Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

  H. H. Asquith

  Greatness, Brain, Lightning

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• I watched the early morning light pass over and through the windows of colored glass, leaving streaks of red and green and yellow on the stone floor. When I was little, I used to try and capture the colored light. I thought I could hold it in my hand and carry it home. Now I know it is like happiness-- it is there or it is not, you cannot hold it or keep it.

  Karen Cushman

  Morning, Home, Yellow

  Karen Cushman (2014). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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• Then I’ll do some digging. (Fury) You just can’t help this kamikaze streak you have, can you? (Sasha)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Digging, Helping, Fury

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• Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Self, People, Pitfalls

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• Most traders believe that 'getting into the zone' happens when you have 'a hot streak.' I believe you can create the zone. The zone is a psychological state. It is when you are focused, disciplined, and fully engaged in the process at hand . . . trading in the zone will certainly increase your capacity to perform and succeed.

  Ari Kiev

  Believe, Hands, Hot

  Ari Kiev (2004). “Trading in the Zone: Maximizing Performance with Focus and Discipline”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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