Checks Quotes - Page 7

• To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.

  St. Vincent

  Sound, Three, Ears

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• One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.

  Richard Marx

  Light, Cheesy, Rooms

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• I pay these niggas with a reality check.

  Lil Wayne

  Reality, Pay

  Song: John, Album: Tha Carter IV, 2011

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• In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.

  China Mieville

  Book, Writing, Names

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 15, 2010.

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• We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.'

  Sandy Smith

  Grace, Cry, Insufficient

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• Never check your religion at the door. Not ever.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Doors

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• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  Ian MacKaye

  Trying, Sound, Band

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

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• I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.

  Peter Welch

  Mom, Coffee, Together

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• My horse needs to be quiet enough not to draw my attention. You want your horse always aware of you. Be aware of your horse! Fidgeting? Direct that! Think of it as a gift. Do something with that energy; redirect it or it will be a negative. Don't let your horse check-out. A horse wants peace. Trade movement for peace.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Thinking, Energy

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• When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Environment

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• There's so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection.

  Elvis Costello

  People, Add, Collections

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• It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

  Tupac Shakur

  Men, Ego, World

  Ed Gordon interview, 1994.

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• Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

  Omar Suleiman

  True Friend, Offending, Risk

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jan 28, 2013

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• ...unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature's fire.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Men, Fire

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• Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills but raise their pay in the middle of the night. Many Americans-this columnist included-hitherto said tax increases are justified by the budget deficit now say: Give that mob more money? Never. Not a nickel of new taxes until term limits change the political culture on Capital Hill.

  George Will

  Country, Money, Night

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• You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.

  Zig Ziglar

  Might, Amount

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• If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.

  Jack Welch

  Meaningful, People, Purpose

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• When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

  Laura Poitras

  Decision, Secret, Important

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• I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.

  Jesse Ventura

  Believe, World, Entertainment

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• The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

  Josiah Warren

  Luxury, Empires, Individual

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• Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?

  Allen West

  Mail, Stuff, Welfare

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• I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

  Serena Williams

  Athlete, Long, Black

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• I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Gratitude

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• Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

  John Zorn

  Mean, Preparation, Sound

  "Interview hits dissonant chord with John Zorn" by Lee Hildebrand, www.sfgate.com. August 26, 2010.

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• Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

  Julian Baggini

  Phones, Waiting, Google

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