Cutting Quotes - Page 15

• I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.

  Al Gore

  Meat, Vegetarian, Climate Change

  "Al Gore Goes Vegan" By Ashley Alman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2013.

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• To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.

  Christina Stead

  Book, House, Tree

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• Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Fundamentals, Facts, Veteran

  "The Things People Say" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. November 2, 2009.

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• I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth on the valuable material of childhood because they'll never have better material, ever, to work with.

  Laura Z. Hobson

  Writing, Childhood, Age

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• Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Quilts, Couple, Believe

  Abigail Scott Duniway (2000). “"Yours for Liberty": Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway's Suffrage Newspaper”

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• The only really satisfactory confidante for your troubles is someone who enjoys them, and this inevitably cuts out anyone who actually loves you.

  Celia Fremlin

  Love You, Trouble, Enjoy

  Celia Fremlin (2014). “The Spider-Orchid”, p.42, Faber & Faber

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• Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Character, Television, Emotion

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• I like working. It is where I feel useful. I have no plans to cut down. I am happy with what I do. There will be a lot more of me yet, that's for sure.

  Harrison Ford

  Working It, Plans, Feels

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• Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Song, Children, Creative

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It is unfortunate we were put in the position where the Republicans made it clear they were ready to let everything fall unless they got these tax cuts.

  Joe Biden

  Fall, Republican, Made

  "One-on-one with Joe Biden". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 19, 2010.

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• Democrats in Washington predicted that tax cuts would not create jobs, would not increase wages, and would cause the federal deficit to explode. Well, the facts are in. The tax cuts have led to a strong economy. Real wages were on the rise, and deficit has been cut in half three years ahead of schedule.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Jobs, Real

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2006.

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• Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Irritated, Kind

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• [There's] a joke that I've done forever: 'Nowadays they say that the largest majority of people will be Latino and you'll tell scary stories to your grandkids: "A long time ago when I was growing up, there used to be people who were white," and the kid says, "Really?" and you say, "Yeah, like the man who cuts our grass."' I've had that line forever and I love it.

  George Lopez

  Growing Up, Kids, Men

  "Seriously Funny". Interview with Brett Wilbur, www.carmelmagazine.com. February 1, 2007.

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• When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.

  Richie Benaud

  Hair, Wife, Long

  Interview With Rob Smyth, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2004.

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• Little brothers ring fingers get cut up to show mothers they really got em.

  Jay-Z

  Mother, Brother, Littles

  Song: December 4th, Album: The Black Album

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• The two party system just means that the corporations cut two checks instead of one.

  Barry Crimmins

  Party, Mean, Two

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• If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, Watches

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• The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!"

  Kurt Fuller

  Want, Drink, Vodka

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dragons, Flying, Matter

  "Terry Pratchett on his latest novel, his medical diagnosis, and more". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2012.

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• Everything in life and business, you only earn more if you become more valuable. Because if you can do more for people than anybody else does, you can prosper. But you can't do that unless you're constantly educating yourself with the cutting edge. My whole life, even when I had no money, I would invest in education.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Doe, Educating Yourself

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If you offer people a decent service, if you give them you know Internet access, if their phones are not cut off on the trains, you know if you have plugs where they can plug in their computers, and if you have a smiling, cheerful staff; and if you can travel really quickly, then you can make a success out of the rail business.

  Richard Branson

  Phones, Internet Access, People

  "Sir Richard Branson: The full interview". "Marketplace" with Jeremy Hobson, www.marketplace.org. April 27, 2012.

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• Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.

  Bell Hooks

  Powerful, Believe, Color

  "October 2006 Interview: Bell Hooks". Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October 2006.

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• The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts.
  [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]

  George Herbert

  Steel, Tongue

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• We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.

  Jo Nesbo

  Understanding, Bombs, Disease

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.245, Random House

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• People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.

  Ken Robinson

  Mother, Technology, Digital Revolution

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