Corny Quotes - Page 16

• Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

  Jerry Weller

  Mother, Abortion, Birth

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• I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

  Joseph Hume

  Law, Class, Kingdoms

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• So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny.

  Steve Martin

  Character, Expression, Might

  "Steve Martin, Rihanna and Jim Parsons Talk HOME; Plus Our Thoughts on the First Footage From the New DreamWorks Animation Film". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 24, 2014.

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• This is going to sound really corny, but it's the way I feel: Musicians have been around for a really long time. It's a really, really old job. When you look at the way that a small band toured back in the '50s, it's similar to the way that a small band tours now. It's been this long tradition, and when you meet somebody who has been doing this for a really long time, you have to have tremendous respect for them.

  Will Sheff

  Jobs, Old Job, Long

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I'd like to work with some of the videogame companies for the simple fact that they obviously need some sort of writer's help. I play videogames, and lately it's hard for me to enjoy them because I'm spending all my time cringing at the corny dialogue, thin characters, and glaring plot holes.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Character, Simple, Play

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• This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.

  Henry Rollins

  Sound, Littles, Workaholic

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write a summary that will drive people to these books." And it took forever. I couldn't think of a thing to say. I looked at the back of other children's books that were full of giddy praise and corny rhetorical questions, you know, "Will she have a better time at summer camp than she thinks?" "How will she escape from the troll's dungeon?" All these terrible, terrible summaries of books, and I just couldn't.

  Daniel Handler

  Summer, Children, Book

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Joe DiMaggio was the greatest all-around player I ever saw. His career can not be summed up in numbers and awards. It might sound corny, but he had a profound and lasting impact on the country.

  Ted Williams

  Country, Player, Impact

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• The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

  John Bright

  Law, Corn, Wheat

  John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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• When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Cat, Sight, Hands

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• It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Air, Depth, Dry

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• I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.

  Marc Singer

  Years, Track, Giving

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• In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Corn

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• We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Corn, Feeding, Made

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• The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Corn, Firsts, Bigs

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• I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

  Jim Bolger

  Thinking, Views, People

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• If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

  William Bennett

  Easy, Vicious, Ifs

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• My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Daughter, Teacher, Greatest Gifts

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.

  Justin Verlander

  Talking, Guy, Listening

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• In Old English they don't say I had a dream, but there's another usage of the word - "life is but a dream," to be corny about it. It's implied with eyes wide open, rather than asleep. But I'm not a philosopher to explain myself. I wish I could. Maybe that's why I'm a musician.

  Tom Verlaine

  Dream, Eye, Wish

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• On a day when you're not feeling so good, you put on a happy face, it's infectious - these things sound kind of corny and stupid, but this is our life.

  Tom Selleck

  Stupid, Feelings, Sound

  Source: www.gq.com

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• It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?

  James Stewart

  Country, Fighting, People

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• But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.

  Fred Astaire

  Attitude, Thinking, Corn

  "Steps in Time" by Fred Astaire, (pp. 6-7), 1959.

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• It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel very lucky. I don't know what else there has to be. I'm happy, as corny as it sounds, to be living in a place where it's easy to live, easy to drive to the airport, easy to go pick up something at the supermarket and to have a circle of friends. Those were my goals in 1998, not to be queen of photography but to make a cultural adjustment to the West. And those are still more important goals to me than professional ones right now.

  Andrea Modica

  Photography, Queens, Circles

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