Cutting Quotes - Page 39

• But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Discovery

  Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.143

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• In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Tables, Sake, Now And Then

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• ... Janis Joplin has one of the most distinguished female voices of the decade. It is a voice that has been aged in Southern Comfort and cured with Kahlua and milk. It is a voice that cuts you like a razor, but you can still hear the innocence in it, a claim to purity that soars out of the garbage of her throat, carrying evil harmonies.

  Al Aronowitz

  Voice, Evil, Southern

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• So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Giving, Lessons, Forget

  "Cold Turkey" by Kurt Vonnegut, inthesetimes.com. May 10, 2004.

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• A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject? Such a law, instead of enlarging our conveniences, as was intended, would most fearfully abridge them, and crowd us by monopolies out of the use of the things we have.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Knives, Law

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.298

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• Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits are unacceptable, and they shouldn’t be put on the table by Democrats for any reason...

  Russ Feingold

  Benefits, Tables, Reason

  "Russ Feingold: Nancy Pelosi Needs To Stand Strong" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• When you go into your customary barber shop, you will wait for the man who gives you a little better shave, a little trimmer hair-cut. Business leaders are looking for the same things in their offices that you look for in the barber shop.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Men, Hair, Giving

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education only as a route to a better career. Reading books, studying history - all these things contribute to making us better citizens, too.

  Rebecca Mead

  Mistake, Book, Reading

  "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.

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• I'm always surprised that people make such a fuss about Italian tailoring and French design houses. I think traditional British tailoring for men is so good. Everything's the right cut, the fabrics are good.

  Sean Lennon

  Italian, Men, Thinking

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

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• For me in a film, almost every scene you end up cutting a bit of the start of it out, and some of the end of it out because there's always...once you've rehearsed it and shot it, it feels like a couple of times and you can always get out sooner.

  Brian Helgeland

  Couple, Film, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• In fact, if we cut 50 percent of the liver out, it'll be back in two weeks.

  Sangeeta N. Bhatia

  Two, Facts, Week

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Country, Two, Humans

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Charles Bay (1978). “Pierre Elliott Trudeau”

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• Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Queens, Real, Divorce

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.496, e-artnow

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• Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own.

  Michael Crichton

  Perspective, Feelings, Viewpoints

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.504, Vintage

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• But you know, I'm very conscious that people criticize Hollywood. Yet we've created a form, the Western, that can be understood in every country. The good guys against the bad guys. No nuances. And the horse is the best vehicle of action in our medium. You take action, a scene, and scenery, and cut them together, and you never miss.

  John Wayne

  Country, Horse, People

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

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• In the party of Lincoln and Reagan and much of the donor class, the defense of human life is what they think loses elections. They think we need to spend time on really popular ideas, like cutting your mom's Social Security check.

  Gary Bauer

  Mom, Party, Thinking

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• I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit hard-edged, isn't it?' And I'd say, 'Let's just try it and see how the audience reacts. If they don't like it, let's cut it out.' And the audience roared with laughter, so I learned you could do this harder humor and people loved it.

  John Cleese

  Laughter, People, Trying

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• I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

  David Lynch

  Finals, Film

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.56, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We're all turkeys! Some of us are running around with our heads cut off, some of us are flapping our wings that hard we're close to flying. But nothing is an eagle bar God.

  Phil Collins

  Running, Eagles, Turkeys

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• The people who know me, the people who see the passion I have for this game and the respect for it, they know that I don't cut any corners in the way I approach golf.

  Vijay Singh

  Passion, Golf, Games

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• Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.

  Khalil Gibran

  Two, Mind, May

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I didn't want to be cut, but it made me a better person and a better player.

  Jason Spezza

  Player, Want, Better Person

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• We should be able to bring the practice of meditation hall into our daily lives. We need to discuss among ourselves how to do it. Do you practice breathing between phone calls? Do you practice smiling while cutting carrots? Do you practice relaxation after hard hours of work? These are practical questions. If you know how to apply meditation to dinner time, leisure time, sleeping time, it will penetrate your daily life, and it will also have a tremendous effect on social concerns.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sleep, Practice, Breathing

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• Engaging each moment without reservation cuts through the illusion that things could be other than they are.

  Rami M. Shapiro

  Moments, Illusion, Reservations

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• You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

  Bruce Sterling

  Data, Starting Over, Over You

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