Checks Quotes - Page 19

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  Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

  Clint Eastwood

  Art, Ego, Listening

  "Clint Eastwood Describes His Near-Death Experience, Says 'American Sniper' Is Anti-War (Exclusive)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2015.

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• I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out."

  Henry Rollins

  Tv Shows, Hey, Tvs

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I wake up and check my Instagram to see what I missed out on last night. Then I check my Twitter. Then I check my Tumblr.

  Domo Genesis

  Night, Wake Up, Lasts

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 15, 2012.

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• I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.

  Neil Strauss

  Couple, Eye, Years

  Neil Strauss (2011). “Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it”, p.7, Canongate Books

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• I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: Anthem, by Ayn Rand; 1984, by George Orwell; or Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.

  Sara Shepard

  Reading, School, Brave New World

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• Saw Torres play their first New York show tonight at Cake Shop. SO good. Do yourself a favor and check out her record. Her voice is KILLER.

  Sharon Van Etten

  New York, Cake, Play

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• I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.

  Barbara Windsor

  Taken, Acting, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.

  Shawn Achor

  Beautiful, Mean, Successful

  "5 Ways to Turn Happiness Into An Advantage" by Shawn Achor, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2011.

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• According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job.

  Conan O'Brien

  Jobs, Men, Study

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• There was an embarrassing moment at a recent Democratic fundraiser. When John Kerry was handed a $10 million dollar check, he said, 'I do.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Dollars, Moments, Embarrassing

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• Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

  Jerzy Grotowski

  War, Groups, Elements

  Jerzy Grotowski (2012). “Towards a Poor Theatre”, p.259, Routledge

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• In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'

  William Safire

  Order, Judging, Style

  "Essay; Seizing Dictatorial Power" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 2001.

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• Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

  Mitt Romney

  Needs, Detroit, Turnaround

  "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt". www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

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• Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Few Words, Enormous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.41, Editora Dracaena

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• If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could they check into it? Because I'm not suicidal. And I'm a pretty good driver.

  Glenn Beck

  Suicide, Suicidal, Media

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• You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.

  Liz Phair

  Thinking, Enough, Ifs

  Song: Girls! Girls! Girls!

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• O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!

  Hannah More

  Jealous, Hue, Flesh

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• It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Would Be, Looks

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• You check the pregnancy test every month, and when it comes up negative it can start to wear on you

  Cindy Margolis

  Pregnancy, Negative, Tests

  "Margolis tackles off-screen challenge" By Kat Carney, www.cnn.com. May 9, 2003.

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• The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage.

  Peggy Ryan

  Humorous, Weight, Baggage

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• Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest, and reasonable. One's actions should be good for others, and for oneself as well. Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Regret, Adversity

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.56, Penguin Books India

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• He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Giving Up, Wrath

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• Because that's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lunges. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It's mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Depression, Long, Let It Go

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• On that Day, we will see the true reality. On that Day, we will realize that two rak`at (units) of prayer were greater than everything in the heavens and the earth. We will realize the priceless check that was left on our doorstep every night as we slept. There will come a day when we would give up everything under the sky just to come back and pray those two rak`at.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Prayer, Giving Up, Islamic

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• Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Compassion, Treasure

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