Classic Quotes - Page 30

• [The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

  Norman Tebbit

  Ideas, Becoming, Polls

  BBC, November 16, 2000.

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• Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange Days that a "dogwhistle" is a guy whose asshole is so tight that when he farts, only dogs can hear him.

  L. Neil Smith

  Dog, Guy, Soul

  "The Bad Guys". April 28, 2009.

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• For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance sale, or a one-night stand. When people say, "I have no willpower," what they usually mean is, "I have trouble saying no when my mouth, stomach, heart, or (fill in your anatomical part) wants to say yes.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Heart, Mean, Night

  Kelly McGonigal (2011). “The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It”, p.14, Penguin

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• It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

  David Maraniss

  Reading, Lines, Bills

  1995 On President Clinton's letter as a graduate student, 3 Dec 1969, to arrange RO TC enlistment to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War, a position that was to haunt his future campaigning. First in His Class.

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• Michael made his debut in John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic, Halloween, possibly the best scare movie to come along in the last twenty-five years. With the release of the sixth (and hopefully final) movie to bear the Halloween moniker, we see how far the mighty have fallen. In the final analysis, The Curse of Michael Myers is a horrific motion picture just not in the way the film makers intended.

  James Berardinelli

  Halloween, Years, Scare

  "Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net. 1995.

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• Converting a classic batch-and-queue production system to continuous flow with effective pull by the customer will double labor productivity all the way through the system (for direct, managerial, and technical workers, from raw materials to delivered product) while cutting production throughput times by 90 percent and reducing inventories in the system by 90 percent as well.

  James P. Womack

  Cutting, Inventory, Way

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• Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. Watson dresses with an urban elegance, a touch of old school dashing, giving a feeling of both the military and medical profession. I suppose it's something they have in common as well. They're a bit metrosexual.

  Martin Freeman

  Military, Old School, Cutting

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• Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Giving, Spontaneity, Structure

  "Mohamed ElBaradei: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas to actual shots of straight tequila. It does make it easier to meet new people.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Drinking, Believe, Moving

  "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown", www.cnn.com. September 29, 2013.

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• It's easy to sell good news like this, and the authors confidently rely on classic fallacious arguments. They argue by declaration, which is what makes the books so amusing. In matter-of-fact, authoritative tones, the authors tell us how plants and human beings exchange energy - or they describe what angels look like, whether or how they're sexed, how they communicate with human beings, and how they differ from ghosts. Readers might be expected to wonder, How do they know?

  Wendy Kaminer

  Book, Angel, Atheism

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• In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Play, Differences

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• I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

  Leon Bridges

  Song, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I'm always afraid of is going "off-book,I always get upset when the director leaves the classic comic that was so very popular. I argued, and I won't say with who about what, but when we go way away from the original source material... that material is popular for a reason and I like to stick with it.

  Lauren Shuler Donner

  Book, Upset, Way

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• I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Thinking, Shoes, Ferguson

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• (A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Failure, Destiny, Europe

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• I really don't. I have truly eclectic taste in music and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; World Music, Brit-pop, Classic Rock, Blues/Jazz, even the odd bit of Heavy metal.

  Rachel Miner

  Rocks, Taste, Eclectic Style

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

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• Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid to dress fun.

  India de Beaufort

  Girl, Fun, Fearless

  "Runway Insider: India de Beaufort Talks About Her Latest Collection". Interview with Style Council Samii, www.seventeen.com. September 13, 2012.

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• I dont really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Looney Tunes and old classic cartoons.

  Ty Simpkins

  Adventure, Cartoon, Tunes

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• For my wardrobe, I like to invest in classic pieces and pair them with more trendy new pieces and accessories each season.

  Liya Kebede

  Accessories, Pieces, Pairs

  "4 Effortessly Chic Moms Talk Shop" by Kerry Pieri. Slide 3, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 10, 2013.

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• A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a remarkably wide range of examples and is distinguished by the relevance of its insights and by the precision and clarity of their exposition. It is an absorbing read that deserves to become a modern classic of political thinking.

  Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

  Strong, Thinking, Leader

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• You have to be talented and you have to be lucky. Record companies are not signing classic rock groups anymore.

  Leslie West

  Rocks, Groups, Lucky

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• Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

  Gracie Gold

  Ice, Skating, Rich

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• Classic Recipe for Roast Beef: 1 large Roast of beef 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them in the oven. When the little one burns, the big one is done.

  Gracie Allen

  Food, Two, Cooking

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• Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years, it's done those blockbuster musicals which are very lucrative for it and reach an audience that classic opera or a new opera perhaps wouldn't reach, like South Pacific for example.

  George Brandis

  Years, Australia, Example

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

  Marie Corelli

  Mean, Style, Diction

  Marie Corelli (1972). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”, p.304, Health Research Books

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