Back When Quotes - Page 7

• I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

  Will Rogers

  Wisdom, Way, Remember

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.

  Cressida Cowell

  Children, Book, Reading

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• People dwell so much on the little things, but why should they hold you back when you have the big things to look forward to? By exuding positive energy when dealing with your problems, you will exude it in your being in general. Treat yourself with love and you will exude love to others.

  Hayley Hasselhoff

  People, Positive Energy, Looks

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• I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazine—that was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an office—I had to pull out.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Editors, San Francisco

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.149, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.

  Paul Westerberg

  Couple, School, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

  Michael Sandel

  Design, Political, Way

  "'Whether we are arguing about MPs' expenses or assisted suicide, we need to engage with the moral ideals underlying our political debates'". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2009.

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• I've always hate child stars, starting from way back when, when I was a child. The first child star I saw was Shirley Temple. She was six years old, two foot six and the biggest star in Hollywood. She wore ribbons in her hair, and frilly little pinafores and shiny patent-leather tap shoes - just like the boys in Glee do.

  Joan Rivers

  Stars, Children, Hate

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me”, p.23, Penguin

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• Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing. I like to keep [my dancing] toned down initially. It's a lot of snapping first off, just to get a feeling.

  Jacob Artist

  Girl, Dancing, Guy

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

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• I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was a sophomore or junior, really into folk and acoustic music. Larry Gross, who's the host of "Mountain Stage" on public radio, and B.W. Stevenson, also a musician, were there at the same time, too. Michael was a big inspiration -- through him I discovered Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Jimmy Rogers. Then I ran into Jerry Jeff Walker there in Dallas back when he was just a folk singer. Those are my earliest influences.

  Ray Wylie Hubbard

  Senior, Inspiration, School

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• Back when we were more in the industrial vein, it was almost like I had to hide the fact that I could sing. Now, I've just sort of embraced the fact that I can sing and I'm not a screamer or hiding it behind any effects, this is just what I sound like.

  Jason C. Miller

  Sound, Veins, Facts

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I've been playing videogames since before my career in this business, but what happened is several videogame companies were recruiting students back then and I applied with barely any hope of getting accepted to any of the companies. However, I got accepted! Although my path was already set to become a piano instructor, I chose the path of videogames instead. My parents cried, my friends were worried and my teacher was stunned (we're talking about way back when game music wasn't as popular as it is these days).

  Yoko Shimomura

  Teacher, Talking, Games

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• Back when Jerry Seinfeld was just another comedian hanging around the clubs, I'd imitate him to amuse myself and the other comics. The club owners would say, 'What are you doing that for? Nobody knows him.'

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Comedian, Clubs, Owners

  "What's eating Gilbert Gottfried?". Interview with Howard Halle, www.timeout.com. December 15, 2005.

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• We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around... when yellow will be mellow... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right.

  Joseph Lowery

  Men, Yellow, White

  Joseph Lowery's Inaugural Benediction, voices.washingtonpost.com. January 20, 2009.

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• My music has always been sort of in-between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.

  Lyle Lovett

  Country, Rocks, Long

  "Lyle Lovett's deep roots inform music, life" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2009.

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• Everywhere I go, I hear 'Welcome back.' But everywhere I have been, I have always been with myself. I'm with myself now more than ever. It's funny people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.

  Ricky Williams

  People, Gone, Welcome

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• Back when we started this show, the hottest program on television was 'Keeping Up With the Gabors.'

  David Letterman

  Television, Program, Shows

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• There is a time you can't turn it back. When a person is very destructive, when they hate you tremendously, you have to disassociate with them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Buddhism, Rama

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• We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.

  Allen Iverson

  Sports, Fun, Giving Up

  InsideHoops.com interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 23, 2007.

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• Even though I was chronologically 21, I was pretty immature and naive for my age, having grown up in a small, isolated ranching town, eighty desolate miles from the nearest city, and back when there was much less cultural homogenisation by way of TV.

  Susan Schneider

  Cities, Immature, Age

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures and seeing the world.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Adventure, Thinking, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.

  Nina Totenberg

  Presidential, Carrying On, Saws

  "Justice Scalia's Funeral Mass To Bring Together Unlikely Peers". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

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• I'm really fortunate to have been to the schools I've been to, and to have the experiences I've had. And, partly since my parents are retired teachers, I've got the desire to give back. When I knew that I had that instinct, I got certified (through the Creativity Coaching Association) and I started working with artists of all kinds - though now I focus on writers.

  Steven C. Harper

  Teacher, Creativity, School

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I'm writing songs about New York. A lot of them carry the names of neighborhoods in Long Island. Maspeth, Montauk. I'm getting into the idea of a F. Scott Fitzgerald-esque Long Island back when New York was...New York.

  Zach Condon

  Song, New York, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Back when I was very small, and we had this bathroom with these sort of paneled mirrors on the side. And I would just sit there - because it was the only warm room in the house. And I would - if I was in a bad place - I would go to my imaginary place with these mirrors, and create this entire other world to sort of help level out what I was dealing with.

  Sandra Bullock

  Mirrors, Other Worlds, House

  "An Election's High Stakes: Sandra Bullock On 'Our Brand Is Crisis'". www.wbur.org. October 31, 2015.

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• I accused a woman of doing something behind my back when I knew that she hadn't, just to see if she loved me. One of a man's secret weapons in dealing with women is knowing the day you stop reacting to my bullshit is the day I feel like I've lost you, even if I'm creating a problem just so we can argue about it.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Men, Creating, Knowing

  "Ty Me Up, Ty Me Down". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 20, 2007.

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