Strokes Quotes - Page 15

• Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Responsibility, Self, Great Love

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• The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

  David Suzuki

  Cancer, Moving, Heart

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• In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

  Ike Skelton

  Cancer, Heart, Alzheimer's

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• I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke.

  Lewis Black

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• For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Climbing, Two, Differences

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• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  Vanna Bonta

  Different, Shade, Canvas

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

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• There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.

  Bill Bryson

  Government, Years, America

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• The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

  Julian Casablancas

  Play, Sound, Thrillers

  "Strokes frontman: 'I was hung over for two years'". Interview with Quinn Brown, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2009.

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• When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should dress every day, in real life, like we're playing onstage. I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. Or maybe helps you pick up chicks.

  Julian Casablancas

  Real, Clothes, Giving

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• Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mean, Doe, Want

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• No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

  Kirk Douglas

  Optimism, What If, Speech

  "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane.' I said, 'If I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.'

  Anthony Edwards

  New York, Real, Yesterday

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

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• I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling is almost completely free. There is no longer any need for the gym as you get fit by cycling. And you can go at your own pace.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Cycling, Needs, Cost

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.

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• It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

  Bobby Jones

  Basketball, Sports, Golf

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• My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.

  Doris Lessing

  Mother, Seventies, Died

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• When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.

  Richard Simmons

  Lonely, Heart, Weight Problems

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• Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Moments. All gathering towards this one.

  Jenny Downham

  Blessed, Fall, Kissing

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• Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure;
  And spring comes green again to trees and grasses
  Where petals have been shed like tears
  And lonely birds have sung their grief.
  ...After the war-fires of three months,
  One message from home is worth a ton of gold.
  ...I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin
  To hold the hairpins any more.

  Du Fu

  Country, Lonely, Spring

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• A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Lying, Oil, Stories

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• For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

  Lucretius

  And Love, Sound, Phrases

  Lucretius (2008). “On the Nature of the Universe”, p.90, OUP Oxford

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• At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

  Chuck Close

  Color, Trying, World

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• One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Character, Winning, Mad

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• Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• I realized, "Oh my gosh! I'm having a stroke!" And the next thing my brain says to me is, Wow! This is so cool! How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their own brain from the inside out?"

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Opportunity, Brain, Wow

  "My stroke of insight". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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• My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

  Justin Cronin

  Hero, Sunshine, Dirt

  "Justin Cronin, author of The Passage, on book two of his vampire trilogy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2012.

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