Boys Quotes - Page 13

• I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Heart, First Love, Broken

  "Caroline Leavitt Throws Stones at Her Own Characters: An Interview". Interview with Meg Waite Clayton, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

  Anthony Browne

  Book, Picture Books, Saws

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• Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than none. Since many girls as well as boys buy the idea that sexual aggression and exploitation is normal masculine behavior, it may not even occur to them to demand to be treated as equals.

  Leora Tanenbaum

  Girl, Acceptance, Thinking

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• When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

  Sadie Jones

  Horse, Children, Wyoming

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• Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mamas boy and he said no, more of a papas boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Father, Mama, Papa

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• When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Moon, Doctors, Becoming A Doctor

  "Olivier Theyskens On Creativity & Commerce, Obama & Middleton, And Being Naked". Interview with Blue Carreon, www.forbes.com. October 24, 2011.

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• There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap of liquor and this excellent condition will go on spreading over the country when the wet press and the paid propogandists of booze are forgotten. The abolition of the commercialized liquor trade in this country is as final as the abolition of slavery.

  Henry Ford

  Country, Growing Up, Abolition Of Slavery

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• I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike.

  Suzy Parker

  America, Goes On, Coats

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• "Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

  Charles Dickens

  Want, Flesh, Said

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.64

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• He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Character, Eye

  Charles Dickens (1863). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.200

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• It's interesting to talk to my mom about her character in Wild at heart, because she sees her as a mother who's just trying to protect her baby from a bad boy. I think that's why it works so beautifully - she has conviction about what she's doing.

  Laura Dern

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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• They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

  Ike Turner

  Drink, Used, Knows

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• I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.

  Tate Taylor

  Taken, Home, Writing

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• It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

  Alan Vega

  Father, Years, Half

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• By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.

  Jack Wagner

  Girl, People, Dancer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like 'Footloose' where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I'd be like, 'Oh, didn't you see 'Footloose,' man?

  Kenny Wormald

  Fun, Kids, Men

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• I'm a proper mummy's boy.

  Shayne Ward

  Mummy

  "Pop's future" by Paul Flynn, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2006.

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• I'm a good Catholic boy.

  Zakk Wylde

  Catholic

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• Playing Sgt, Trotter in 'The Mousetrap' is the same as playing Scripps in 'The History Boys,' in the sense that they're dream roles that I've always wanted to do. The fact they're letting me do this professionally and I'm getting paid for it, I find astonishing.

  Thomas Howes

  Dream, Roles, Facts

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• Don't quit your day jobs, boys, but always keep your sense of humor.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Jobs, Sense Of Humor, Quitting

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  New York, Childhood, Brooklyn

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• I can't pull off blond, but I got some blond tips. Which is as close as I'll ever come to being in a '90s boy band.

  Ron Livingston

  Band, Boy Bands, I Can

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

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• Just met a boy, just met a boy when he could become my little problem.

  Nicki Minaj

  Littles, Problem, Mets

  Song: Va Va Voom, Album: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.

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• I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

  Al Gore

  Men, Racist Jokes, Rights

  "Al Gore explains why he’s optimistic about stopping global warming". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.

  Emmanuel Jal

  People, Judging, Soldier

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