Checks Quotes - Page 40

• Every time you consider a job, you have to check in with your inner compass and say, ‘Does this fit in with how I see what the work is for? Is this going to be something interesting and valuable to contribute to the world?’

  Tom Hiddleston

  Jobs, Interesting, Doe

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• I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum I know I am a great mother.

  Kate Winslet

  Mother, Baby, Morning

  "Perfecting the illusion" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2004.

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• I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.

  Madeline Kahn

  Self, Sound, Tunes

  Interview with Charlie Rose, December 16, 1996.

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• I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that ‘do what makes you happy’ thing in check.

  Edward Burns

  Reality, Catholic, Suffering

  FaceBook post by Edward Burns from Sep 12, 2011

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• Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?

  Natasha Henstridge

  Cute, Parent, Asking

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• Could you double-check the envelope?

  Martin Scorsese

  Envelopes

  "The 79th Annual Academy Awards". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Acting is the best job in the world. Look at the way they treat you when you turn up for work. They give you breakfast and a cup of tea and ask, 'Are you all right' They tart up your face, you say somebody else's words, then pick up your check and go home. And you get days off. I tell you, it really is the way to live.

  Bob Hoskins

  Jobs, Home, Best Job

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• A minibar is a machine that makes everything expensive. When I take something out of the minibar, I always fathom that I'll go and replace it before they check it off, but they make that stuff impossible to replace. I go to the store and ask, 'Do you have coke in a glass harmonica ...Do you have individually wrapped cashews'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

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• Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.

  Ron Paul

  Order, What If, Doubt

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• If I thought the Lord was speaking to me I'd check myself into Bellevue, and I think you should too.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Lord, Should

  "Larry King Live", August 11, 2005.

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• Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.

  Jello Biafra

  Loyalty, Mean, Giving

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• Emotional luggage nothing of it, I don't check bags, I just carry on, leave that bullshit in the past

  Curren$y

  Past, Emotional, Bullshit

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• Trust but check. Check on those we trust.

  Tom Rob Smith

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• In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men - yes, black men as well as white men - would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fall, Men, Pursuit Of Happiness

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

  Dennis Farina

  Crazy, Mirrors, People

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• I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something.

  Willie Mays

  Hurt, Blessed, Body

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

  Bob Dylan

  God, Choices, Mountain

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.

  Nate Ruess

  Inspirational, Basketball, Lying

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• Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.

  Amy Goodman

  Power, Government, Media

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• What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'

  Edward Abbey

  Jesus, Lasts, Last Supper

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other deformities, it has an awful squinting - it squints towards monarchy. And does not this raise indignation in the breast of every true American? Your president may easily become king. Where are your checks in this government? I would rather infinitely - and I am sure most of this convention are of the same opinion - have a king, lords, and commons than a government so replete with such insupportable evils.

  Patrick Henry

  Beautiful, Kings, Squinting

  Speech, www.let.rug.nl. June 07, 1788.

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• No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion.

  John Dickinson

  Order, Careers, Blood

  John Dickinson (2009). “The Writings of John Dickinson”, p.364, Applewood Books

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• To put it a little crudely, these days nobody is afraid of excommunication. If they decide they don't want to be Catholic anymore and want to become Episcopalians or Hindus, they just do it. The churches no longer have the disciplinary powers to keep their followers in check. That means that they have to accept much more feeding up from below than they had to in the past.

  Ninian Smart

  Mean, Past, Catholic

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

  Rich Lowry

  Example, Penguins, March

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• Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.

  Tommy Lee

  Girl, Lonely, Fun

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