Belly Quotes - Page 16

• The reason is they failed to learned the primary lesson we should have learned from when Long Term Capital Management went belly up ten years ago. That is, investments that seem uncorrelated can be correlated simply because we're interested in it.

  Richard Thaler

  Should Have, Years, Long

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

  Clark Gable

  Wrinkles, Want, Stranger

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• War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

  George S. Patton

  War, Rip, Blood

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under the pressure of my step, I want the streets to emit the precise odor of a diamond necklace. I want the newspapers I read to smell like the violins left in pawnshops by weeping hobos on Christmas Eve. I want to carry luggage that reeks of the neurons in Einstein's brain. I want a city's gases to smell like the golden belly hairs of the gods. And when I gaze at a televised picture of the moon, I want to detect, from a distance of 239,000 miles, the aroma of fresh mozzarella.

  Tom Robbins

  Distance, Moon, Hair

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• You put the life in your belly and you live.

  Hannibal

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• A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Pain, Men, Agony

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• The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford.

  Charlton Laird

  Teacher, World, Hoaxes

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• Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride

  Seneca the Younger

  Pride, Cost, Hunger

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• Hungry bellies have no cars.

  Francois Rabelais

  Car, Hunger, Hungry

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• A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

  Sam Keen

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.9, Bantam

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• Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.

  Yisroel Salanter

  Helping Others, Men, People

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• The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Teacher, Art, Eating

  "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Prologue, 10,

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• Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Fire, Light, People

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• The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; butter-flies, which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light-coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk who passes under them or over them.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Nature, Flower, Science

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”

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• It doesn't matter if a character is a lawyer, a cop or a geography teacher. If there's a story in there, where the character has a passion and a fire in his belly and story to tell, then it's enough for an actor to get excited about.

  Clive Standen

  Teacher, Passion, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.

  Johnny Carson

  Rose, Dancer, President

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• With girls I get no respect. A belly dancer told me I turned her stomach.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Girl, Respect, Dancer

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• The laughs are honestly bigger, ... They are the kind of unexpected belly laughs you get with your friends during conversation.

  Drew Carey

  Laughing, Unexpected, Kind

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• You might be a redneck if your wife has a beer belly and you find it attractive.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Beer, Redneck, Wife

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• If your stomach blocks your view of your feet, cover it up! The only people who should be wearing belly shirts are people who don't have bellies. Now those little baby spare tires are kinda cute; tractor tires aren't! Especially if they've got hair on them!

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Cute, Baby, Block

  "Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day. Otherwise, it's going to be a bad day. I also love Jelly Bellies. But that's bad. Don't tell my mom.

  Katie Holmes

  Mom, Bad Day, Jelly

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• It's so not sexy and intimate. There are 40 people in the room. There's a guy with his belly hanging out, with a boom in your face. It's really very technical. I think doing a love scene is tougher than doing a fight scene. It's so staged and you can't put light on her face and you have to hit the mark.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Sexy, Fighting, Thinking

  "Boris Kodjoe Interview UNDERCOVERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 18, 2010.

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• I hate all virtues based on food and bloated bellies; though food and drink are good, I'm better slaked and fed by that inhuman flame which burns in our black bowels. I like to name that flame which burns within me God!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Hate, Flames, Names

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.

  William Cobbett

  Real, Foundation, Opinion

  William Cobbett (1935). “The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham”

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• You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.

  Shane Claiborne

  Laughing, Details, Stories

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