Drag Quotes - Page 2

• Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

  Ronald Blythe

  Long, People, Special

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• My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

  Ed Miliband

  Running, Believe, Who I Am

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world

  Karolina Kurkova

  People, Style, World

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• Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.

  Harry Shearer

  Art, Thinking, Trying

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• I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

  Jim Carrey

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

  John Lone

  Queens, Performers, Extraordinary

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• Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  People, Caves, Want

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• How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Dark, Racist, Conviction

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• The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Soul, Movement, Weight

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• Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.

  Barry Gibb

  Albums, Stones, Eldest

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• Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.

  James Carville

  Bills, Camps, Trailers

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• I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.

  Brian Molko

  Girl, New York, Tired

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• I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

  Taylor Dane

  Queens, Drag Queen

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• Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Levels, Dignity

  Tim Fountain, Quentin Crisp (2001). “Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp Explains it All”, MIT Press

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• If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.

  Michael Andretti

  Racing, Wheels, Carts

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• Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

  Eliza Farnham

  Soul, Church, Body

  "Woman and Her Era". Book by Eliza Farnham, pt. 1, ch. 1, 1864.

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• Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

  Barbara Kruger

  Surround Yourself, Delusion, Kicks

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• Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Dust, World

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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• I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.

  Armand Assante

  Daughter, Mother, Travel

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• Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.

  Steve Harvey

  Comedian, Crowds, Momma

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• When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out.

  Sheena Easton

  Kids, College, High Heels

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• Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.

  Michael Nesmith

  Past, Ideas, Trying

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• Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.

  Liv Tyler

  Girl, Mom, Stars

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• I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

  Kevin Kline

  Piano, Rooms, Magnetic

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• The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

  Brian Eno

  Brother, Distance, Philosophical

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