Classic Quotes - Page 11

• The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as we desired. It just didn't have the presence to be noticed.

  Chris Bangle

  Bmw, Luxury, Car

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• At Babbo, each dish grew out of a conversation, trying to put something forth that was new and different. It was a combination of culinary adventurism and the dining-room experience with respect for the classic but with an eye toward innovation. And it was about eating locally, whether produce or fish or meat.

  Joe Bastianich

  Eye, Innovation, Trying

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• It's not called cocaine any more. It's now referred to as Crack Classic.

  Jay Leno

  Cracks, Cocaine

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• It's an honor to walk in the footsteps of a legend. As host I intend to honor the tradition of The Bob Hope Classic and have a great time blazing a new path.

  George Lopez

  Honor, Bob, Legends

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• The script was classic Joe Eszterhas, intelligent, steamy and provocative. At one time, Eszterhas was Hollywood's highest paid writer, illiterate rock and roll bad boy whose 14 films glorified sex, drugsa nd cigarettes. Eszterhas also fought publicly with producers and politicians. In 1995 he argued that some of the misdeeds of the Nixon, Reagan and Bush administrations were more obscene than anything in an "R" rated movie.

  David Shuster

  Sex, Boys, Intelligent

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Well, it's kind of like that classic sort of trajectory in this kind of movie where there's conflict and they're estranged and they kind of grow to love each other but they don't show it. Then at the end - it's kind of like that. But I think the characters are more interesting than that.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• There's something really sweet about the way he's playing the part and he's kind of irresistible in a way. They're both really lonely. That's kind of established from the very beginning in the movie. The way they meet is just classic, lonely losers.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Sweet, Lonely, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I think I take my style from all walks of life, and all generations and decades of life as well. I love mixing '50s with '80s and classic with punk.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Thinking, Style, Mixing

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• Just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended results.

  Michael A. Walsh

  Woods, Results, Horseshoes

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• There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around.

  Chris Hardwick

  Nerd, Brain, Tools

  "Chris Hardwick: Lord of the Nerds". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. June 17, 2011.

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• You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' - the variety of characters was so amazing to me.

  J. B. Smoove

  Character, Stuff I Like, Andy Griffith Show

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• The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

  Saul Alinsky

  Angel, Devil, Sides

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.10, Vintage

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• I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks.

  John Fogerty

  Swings, Giving, Tuning

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• In the 80s there weren't so many bands around and nowadays there are a lot more bands around. I think sometimes there are too many bands. But there are a lot of interesting young bands around. They are not really playing the classic metal stuff, that's up to the old bands.

  Udo Dirkschneider

  Thinking, Interesting, Band

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• My parents were real classic rock freaks, so I heard a lot of Zeppelin, Stones, Hendrix stuff. Thankfully, they were also into lots of old soul, too, so we listened to Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire and War. I was so isolated where I grew up (a small town in Pennsylvania) that there was literally no culture.

  Princess Superstar

  Real, War, Wind

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• I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

  Nina Simone

  Sorry, Thinking, Black

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• Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best.

  Garrison Keillor

  Song, Uncles, Singing

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• The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Promise

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• During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of my first novel. I can still recite the opening paragraph from memory - only now I cringe when I do it because they are - surprise! - a classic example of overwriting, in addition to being a more than a little pretentious.

  Patricia Briggs

  Memories, College, Years

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• Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.

  John Pilger

  Believe, Pirate, Public Service

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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• Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

  Dean Acheson

  History, Roles, Empires

  Speech at U.S. Military Academy,West Point, N.Y., 5 Dec. 1962

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• With 'Avatar,' I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guys' adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs mold, like John Carter of Mars - a soldier goes to Mars.

  James Cameron

  Adventure, Guy, Soldier

  "Man of Extremes". Interview with Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

  Washington Irving

  Age, Library, Buckets

  Washington Irving (2009). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.”, p.109, Modern Library

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• Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was 16 and spent most of his life in Vienna. He's the key composer between classic music and romantic music. Beethoven was the beginning of romantic music, and he was the teacher of Beethoven and Schubert.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Teacher, Keys, Romantic Music

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• I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Opera, Century, Baroque Music

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