Cutting Quotes - Page 27

• I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. You know, they've had their budgets cut. They're paid nothing. Books are falling apart. The libraries are just like the ass end of everything, right?

  Michael Moore

  Book, Fall, Men

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• In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often, I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said 'cut it out'

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

  Robert Stone

  Moving, Writing, Hair

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• More than 200 ships from 13 nations conducted over 10,000 flawless intercepts, which formed a steel wall around the waters leading to Iraq. And these operations continue today. Thanks to these superb efferts not one cargo hold, not one crate, not even one pallet of seaborne contraband even touched Saddam Hussein's shores. The result: Iraq lost 90% of its imports, 100% of its exports, and had its gross national product cut in half.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Wall, War, Iraq

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• The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

  William Ellery Channing

  Nature, Cheer, Communication

  William Ellery Channing (1830). “Remarks on the character and writings of Fenelon”, p.7

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• But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

  Francis Bacon

  Fashion, Philosophy, Believe

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• As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.

  Steve Forbes

  Money, Power, Opportunity

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• The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'

  Pam Brown

  Horse, Children, Dad

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• The die is cast. The people have passed the river and cut away the bridge. Last night three cargoes of tea were emptied into the harbor. This is the grandest event which has ever yet happened since the controversy with Britain opened.

  John Adams

  Night, Bridges, Rivers

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.333

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• If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Two, Would Be

  Voltaire (2016). “Treatise on Toleration”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

  Robin Wright

  Sleep, Next Day, Meat

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• It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that.

  Jason Isaacs

  Beautiful, Long, Robins

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• Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

  James Thurber

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Quoted in Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks (eds) Selected Letters of JamesT hurber (1981).

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• Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous: it can lead us to wanting to possess a story as we possess a cup... A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.

  Andre Dubus

  Book, Twenties, Stories

  Andre Dubus (2011). “Meditations from a Movable Chair”, p.49, Vintage

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• Start by scrapping the tax code. Don't fiddle with it. Junk it. Throw it out. Bury it. Replace it with a pro-growth, pro-family tax cut that lowers tax rates to 17% across the board and expands exemptions for individuals and children so that a family of four would pay no taxes on the first $36,000 of income.

  Steve Forbes

  Family, Children, Growth

  Announcement of Candidacy, www.cnn.com. September 22, 1995.

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• In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

  Tom Allen

  Ties, Osama Bin Laden, Sanctions

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• To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it

  Tom Allen

  Children, War, Opportunity

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• I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.

  Scott Walker

  Hate, Government, Choices

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• Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

  Amelia Earhart

  Worry, Decision, Impossible

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• When I walk into a market I may see a different cut of meat or an unusual vegetable and think, ‘I wonder how it would be if I took the recipe for that sauce I had in Provence and put the two together?’ So I go home and try it out. Sometimes my idea is a success and sometimes it is a flop, but that is how recipes are born. There really are not recipes, only millions of variations sparked by someone’s imagination and desire to be a little creative and different. American cooking is built, after all, on variations of old recipes from around the world.

  James Beard

  Home, Thinking, Vegetables

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• Get all you can without hunting your soul, your body, or your neighbor. Save all you can, cutting off every needless expense. Give all you can. Be glad to give, and ready to distribute; laying up in store for yourselves a good foundation against the time to come, that you may attain eternal life.

  John Wesley

  Life, Hunting, Giving

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• You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

  Jim Thompson

  Men, Feet, Corn

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.

  Tim Johnson

  Jobs, Creating, America

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• When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower of youth had been cut down in Flanders, the survivors were not the flower: the dead were superior to the traumatized living. In this way, the virtual destruction of a generation further increased the distance between the old and the young, between the official and the unofficial.

  Robert Hughes

  Distance, War, Flower

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• Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.

  Timothy Murphy

  Marriage, Children, Divorce

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