Cracks Quotes - Page 24

• I just got really desperate to pay rent. It was weird, man. I had to wrestle a fake pussy off a crack head once.

  Gold Panda

  Men, Fake, Pussy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.

  Beth Moore

  Angel, Fighting, Enemy

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• Laughter not time destroyed my voice
  And put that crack in it,
  And when the moon's pot-bellied
  I get a laughing fit.

  William Butler Yeats

  Laughter, Moon, Voice

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer.

  KRS-One

  Kings, Block, Artist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited.

  Ice Cube

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I don't like newer programs that paper over your cracks.

  Max Tundra

  Nuts, Appreciate, Over You

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Every time something slips through the cracks, the cracks get bigger.

  Jason Fried

  Bigger, Slips

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• There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.

  Julian Assange

  Law, Epidemics, Use

  "Sean Hannity Is Now a Big Julian Assange Fan". Interview, www.slate.com. September 7, 2016.

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• If you're dumb enough to do crack, you're supposed to die. It's evolution.

  Joe Rogan

  Dumb, Evolution, Enough

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• It's very hard sometimes when you can't crack something or can't solve something and you keep trying and trying and you know it's falling a little bit short. That's very hard, but then when you finally do it, it's very rewarding and the process is good too, I like working with people this way.

  Steve Martin

  Fall, People, Trying

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• I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Sports, Rocks, Climbing

  Source: www.afb.org

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• It's been really important to me to create moments where there's a breath or moments where there's a laugh or moments where there's real life that's allowed to seep in through the cracks of whatever melodrama is happening, because that's what does happen in life.

  Sarah Polley

  Real, Laughing, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As actors, we want to go find the humanity and make it more nuanced and fill in the colors, rather than just being suit people who crack cases, 'cause they aren't that.

  Juliette Lewis

  Color, People, Humanity

  "Juliette Lewis Talks THE FIRM and Future Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2012.

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• You get in a smart crack, and everyone laughs and kikis because you've found a flaw and exaggerated it, then you've got a good read going.

  Dorian Corey

  Smart, Laughing, Good Reads

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• I'm completely perplexed how someone who has most of the mainstream media for Hillary Clinton, well all the mainstream media, well most of the media for her, she's got a sitting president - a sitting First Lady far more popular than she'll ever supposed to be, a former president also her husband, the sitting vice president, a thousand people working in Brooklyn, she has all these states locked up and she can't crack 50% and stay there.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Husband, Media, People

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• Your wallet will be stolen, you'll get fat, slip on the bathroom tiles of a foreign hotel and crack your hip.

  Ellen Bass

  Tiles, Hips, Bathroom

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Men can get jobs from one country to another, they can get in. But the people who always fell through the cracks were women and children, especially when you are displaced. I've always said, 'I am the face of a refugee.'

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Country, Jobs, Children

  Source: time.com

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• Fidel Castro rhetorically championed the poor. He also held the Cuban economy in a kind of arrested state. He called for racial equality but often cracked down - but did crack down on the press and dissidents and Cuban gays.

  Scott Simon

  Gay, Kind, Economy

  "Cuba Reacts To Fidel Castro's Death". Interview with Scott Simon, kccu.org. November 26, 2016.

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• Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game, which I think speaks to chess's complexity.

  Wells Tower

  Thinking, Games, Gone

  "Post Magazine: The King of Dupont Circle". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. October 1, 2007.

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• If, in all the cities, every house that is past repairing could be pulled down or burned up, how great would be the crash, how heaven-high the conflagration. It would be a veritable crack of Doom and glare of the Judgment.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Past, Cities, House

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• You're often looking at writing from writers who, for the most part, are working in forms that traditionally fit into other genres. But sometimes, in the midst of their better-known stuff, there's this wayward thing, and because it's wayward it isn't considered representative of their work, so it falls through the cracks.

  John D'Agata

  Fall, Writing, Stuff

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

  Honore de Balzac

  Horse, Fall, Men

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Atheist's Mass”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• A lot of people are actually surprised when I do open up my mouth and smile a little bit, and crack a joke and drink a beer.

  Tim Kang

  Beer, People, Mouths

  Source: collider.com

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• You don't want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is only a theory, the more you try and keep it secret, the more the media tries to crack it open.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Media, Secret, Trying

  "Jennifer Lawrence profiled: Everything you need to know about the Oscar-nominated Silver Linings Playbook actress" by Alina Polianskaya, www.mirror.co.uk. Februuary 19, 2013.

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• All of a sudden Mindy [Kaling] was writing on The Office and had sold a TV show. When we'd try to write shows, we'd jokingly call the word documents "Hit Show." We just couldn't crack the code.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Writing, Tv Shows, Office

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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