Cracks Quotes - Page 17

When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.

Harry Browne

Running, Gold, Paper

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Social media is like crack-immediately gratifying and hugely addictive.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Media, Social Media, Social

Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.14, Harper Collins

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Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point the cracks are almost imperceptible.

Mary Harron

Beautiful, People, Life Is

"Interview: The Bettie Page Story". Interview with Susie Bright, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.

Jilly Cooper

Running, Work, Reading

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.

Andrea Dworkin

Running, Art, Real

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There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.

Jennifer Aniston

Pain, Grief, Feelings

“The Unsikable Jennifer Aniston” by Leslie Bennetts, www.vanityfair.com. October 10, 2006.

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She wasn't that tough on me, but I think she was often a little frightened - being a single parent. So it begets this quality of desired absoluteness that doesn't really exist. My sister could crack her up. She'd be getting into trouble and put the Steve Martin arrow through her head and mom would start to laugh. I didn't have the same sort of wiliness.

Ashley Judd

Mom, Thinking, Arrows

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Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.

John B. S. Haldane

Wall, Miracle, Atheism

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I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time.

Nick Cannon

Funny, World, Comedy

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Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open.

David Hoffman

Thinking, Doors, Wind

"David Hoffman on 'The Dead Hand' and End of the Cold War". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.

Paul Banks

Writing, Player, Guitar

"Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.

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He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]

Plautus

Shells, Kernel

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Rush hour brings out the worst in some people. They make faces, gesture, yell, call names, bump you with their car, and lean on their horn over the slightest perception that they are right and you are wrong. If you take any of these signals seriously, you can be hurt every time you drive. If you cannot crack a joke within a few minutes of rear-ending someone on the freeway, don't go out there.

Jennifer James

Hurt, Names, People

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Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.

Thomas Carlyle

Heart, America, Python

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.496, Lulu.com

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... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping hare is caught in a marble panel.) A glaze is put over life. There is no flaw, no crack in the surface; a still reservoir, no ripple on its face. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. The waterfalls seemed frozen solid; the tops of the trees were still; the river hardly stirred, a serpent gently moving under its shimmering skin.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Morning, Moving, Light

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To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

Wendell Phillips

Father, Pieces, Imitation

Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.231

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[On Nancy Reagan:] At one photo op press conference, she toured a crack house and decried how awful it was, yet one suspected that for our Drug Czarina it had something to do with a plaid couch.

Kate Clinton

House, Drug, Awful

Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.65, Bywater Books

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And I saw darkness for weeks. It never dawned on me that I could come out of it, but you heal. Nature heals you, and you do come out of it. All of a sudden I saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden I saw another crack of light. Then I saw forms in the light. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Healing, Light, Darkness

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For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

Arianna Huffington

Business, Hot, Unemployment

Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.59, Crown

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One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

Charles Dickens

Winter, Feet, Sea

Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.318

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Like that lightning that comes out of the blue when there's not even a storm going on, just a crazy crack in the sky. With something like that right in front of you, you can't help but feel there's new possibilities out there.

Marisha Pessl

Crazy, Blue, Sky

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Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

Clare Balding

Attitude, Children, Kids

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If I was any happier, you'd think I was on crack.

Chris Thile

Thinking, Ifs

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Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it

Mos Def

Hip Hop, Smoking, Hips

Song: Hip Hop

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I'm not good at taking pictures. I can't give a good face. I crack up.

Chrissy Teigen

Giving, Faces, Taking Pictures

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

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