Bunch Quotes - Page 25

• Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.

  Renata Adler

  Garden, Air, Dramatic

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• There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Lying, Writing

  Interview with Jordan E. Rosenfeld, www.writersdigest.com. August 27, 2008.

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• The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus is a bunch of bullshit. Treat her like you would a friend, and you'll wind up with a lover.

  Bill Maher

  Men, Wind, Ideas

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• And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Flower, Book, Ties

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.

  Frank Miller

  Dog, Fire, Screenwriters

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• Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back
  I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats

  Tupac Shakur

  Dirty, Rats, Facts

  Song: Only God Can Judge Me, Album: All Eyez on Me, 1996

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• NOP stands for (and is pronounced) no op, as in no operation. The NOP causes the processor to do absolutely nothing. What's it good for? Filling space. The 8080 can usually execute a bunch of NOP instructions without anything bad happening

  Charles Petzold

  Space, Causes, Instruction

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• We’re really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?

  John Frusciante

  Jobs, Fun, Book

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• I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

  Daniel Handler

  Nice, Writing, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 12, 2012.

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• There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.

  Rico Love

  Artist, People, Upset

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• Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Understanding, Perception

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• As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world. This was the nicest bunch of people I've worked with in show business, with the exception of the people around 'A Mighty Wind.' It really was a wonderful eight years.

  Harry Shearer

  Kids, Eight, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Not bad for a bunch of castoffs and misfits.

  Bruce Bochy

  Misfits

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• Well, you know, the mind is nothing. The mind is only a bunch of thoughts. Thoughts about the past and the future, that is all a mind is. But, the Heart is a center of stillness, of quietness, of Absolute Peace. When you rest your mind in your heart, you feel a joy and a bliss that overwhelms you, and you will Know. Surrender your mind to your Heart, and you will feel it.

  Robert Adams

  Heart, Past, Joy

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• We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Decision, Majority

  Barack Obama's Remarks to the White House Press Corps, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 20, 2012.

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• The future is full of possibility, whether you make one tiny change - or a whole invigorating, thrilling, inspiring bunch of them.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Tiny, Possibility, Whole

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

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• If you ever want to see heaven, watch a bunch of young girls play. They are all sweat and skinned knees. Energy and open faces.

  Amy Poehler

  Girl, Play, Sweat

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• The reward of a successful collaboration is a thing that cannot be produced by either of the parties working alone. It is akin to the benefits of sex with a partner, as opposed to masturbation. The latter is fun, but you show me anyone who has gotten a baby from playing with him or herself, and I'll show you an ugly baby, with just a whole bunch of knuckles.

  Harlan Ellison

  Baby, Sex, Fun

  Harlan Ellison (1975). “Partners in Wonder”

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• When you take the people who most need work and connect them with the work that most needs doing, you save. You save that young person’s life, you save a whole bunch of money, and you save the soul of this country when you invest and give people a chance, give people hope, give people opportunity.

  Van Jones

  Country, Opportunity, People

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• I really love big scarves. I have a whole bunch.

  Bella Thorne

  Scarves, Bigs, Whole

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the world’s systems) to allow you to do.

  William Deresiewicz

  Discovery, Focus, Connections

  William Deresiewicz (2015). “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch of problems, creative and otherwise, that can stop you writing. They are not block. They are important skills.

  Nick Harkaway

  Block, Writing, Skills

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• The Austrian School came into existence when a bunch of Viennese rent-gouging landlords didn't want rent control on the rents they could gouge out of their tenants in old Vienna, so they hired a bunch of scribblers - and that's the Austrian School.

  Webster Tarpley

  School, Vienna, Want

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• I feel like when I was 13 and I had to go to bar mitzvahs every weekend. This is the same feeling. You have to put on a suit every weekend to go meet with a bunch of Jews.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Weekend, Feelings, Mitzvah

  "Jesse Eisenberg Feels Like He's Doesn't Really Belong at the Oscars" by Tim Nudd, people.com. February 9, 2011.

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• I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat cat bankers on Wall Street.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Wall, Cat

  "Obama Defends Afghanistan Timetable Plan". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, multimedia.cbs.com. December 9, 2009.

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