Cracks Quotes - Page 20

• Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Museums, Adjectives, Verbs

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• A lot of people have that story that they used to sell crack or shoot people; that's nothing new. But honestly, if that was me, I probably still wouldn't be doing that because it's so many people that's doing that. It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you. So I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.

  Chamillionaire

  Rap, People, Creative

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2005.

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• I don't accept that the new generation is looking for anything different than what we've always been looking for. Depending on the moment, they want bangers that make them crack their neck, they want tracks that put them in a zone where they can sit back and chill.

  Rakim

  Track, Want, Necks

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Ice, Personality, Identity

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.125, A&C Black

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• The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is
  to see the cracks?

  Ann Voskamp

  Dark, Profound, Fallen World

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• I don't like working on stuff unless it's going to make an impact. I want people to talk about this and remember it. If I finally get my crack at Spider-Man and then blow it, ugh. I will happily walk in front of a bus to sell more copies after I finish.

  Joe Madureira

  Men, Blow, Impact

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• In Nepal, the phenomenon is reversed. Time is a stick of incense that burns without being consumed. One day can seem like a week; a week, like months. Mornings stretch out and crack their spines with the yogic impassivity of house cats. Afternoons bulge with a succulent ripeness, like fat peaches. There is time enough to do everything - write a letter, eat breakfast, read the paper, visit a shrine or two, listen to the birds, bicycle downtown to change money, buy postcards, shop for Buddhas - and arrive home in time for lunch.

  Jeff Greenwald

  Morning, Cat, Home

  Jeff Greenwald (2014). “Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal”, p.16, Travelers' Tales

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• A bag of bones can slip through small cracks in a crowd effortlessly.

  Kris Kidd

  Bags, Crowds, Bones

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• I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an artist and as an actor, so I'd play crack heads and down trotting women and disguise myself, and I think as I've gotten older, I become more comfortable with who I really am and all parts of me knowing that my physical self doesn't diminish me in any way or my talent.

  Halle Berry

  Taken, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I don't think crack happened by accident. I'm part conspiracy theorist, because you can't develop something that dangerous and have it not be planned.

  Questlove

  Thinking, Conspiracy, Dangerous

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Whatever your woman is into, you better be into. Whatever your man is into, you better be N2. Your partner into church, you better be into church. Your man or woman a crack head, you better be a crack head ... Otherwise it just won't work.

  Chris Rock

  Men, Church, Partners

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• Not many players get three cracks of the cherry.

  Adrian Chiles

  Player, Three, Cherries

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• No one's coming in seeing my dogs, daughter or the crack of my ass, forget it.

  Courtney Love

  Daughter, Dog, Forget

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• Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Running, Character, Cups

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• Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure.

  Henry Petroski

  Engineering, Perfection, Doe

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• In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.

  E. B. White

  Book, Writing, Order

  "Writers at Work". Interview with George Plimpton, Frank Crowther in Paris Review, 1969.

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• Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as the mongoose. And strangely enough, when we put our human concerns into their proper, small place, we can turn our attention completely to the small things. To a cricket hidden in a crack of lava. To each other.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Attention, Littles, Lava

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• Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Talking, Structure

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.111, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.

  Steve Jobs

  Football, Player, Men

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• Golf is the crack of sports. If you hit five good shots, you know you can hit six good shots. The next time you hit six good shots, you know you can hit seven.

  Alice Cooper

  Sports, Golf, Next

  "Alice Cooper: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 02, 2009.

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• Who wouldn't prefer having breakfast in bed to getting up at the crack of dawn and having a cup of coffee in a studio makeup department?

  Rita Hayworth

  Coffee, Makeup, Bed

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

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• For some reason, politically there's a distinction between cocaine and crack. Cocaine is not a felony conviction because it's used by middle class and wealthy people. Crack, which is used by people in South Central, carries a felony conviction.

  Nick Broomfield

  Class, People, Cocaine

  Source: collider.com

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• I have family members who literally struggle with crack addiction, and I've seen how destructive that's been, not only for their relationships and their children and their career, but perpetually even until today because that meant that that person was not there all these years to raise their child and just the damage that it inflicts.

  Rosario Dawson

  Children, Struggle, Years

  "Rosario Dawson Talks GIMME SHELTER, Coming Full Circle Since Her Debut in KIDS, Responding to the Screenplay, and Collaborating with Vanessa Hudgens". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 22, 2014.

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• Have you noticed that all you need to grow healthy, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk? Having a baby is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

  Carol Burnett

  Baby, Over You, Healthy

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• I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and lose our heads in it. Sooner or later he'll start saying something to the effect of "Hey, Thom, can you put in something else now?" but I'll just nod coldly and respond "not just yet". But after awhile, I'll finally budge. And that's when I crack a big smile and take out The Bends and put in Kid A. My friend just sighs and leaves the room, and I can't blame him. He's not ready for that leap yet.

  Thom Yorke

  Kids, Listening, Hey

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