Dummy Quotes - Page 2

• Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature.

  Ilona Andrews

  Father, Men, Practice

  Ilona Andrews (2007). “Magic Bites”, p.110, Penguin

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• Interchangeability and versatility unlocks so many styles of play for your team. It's not the end all be all, but it helps you handle adversity so much better. It presents so many different matchup problems for the other team because they have to worry about so many different things. You can have long and athletic guys but if they're dummies then you're in trouble. What the Warriors have is amazing versatility, but also versatility in their basketball IQ.

  Shane Battier

  Basketball, Team, Adversity

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

  Thomas More

  People, Dumb, Despise

  Thomas More (2014). “Utopia: Second Edition”, p.6, Yale University Press

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• Paul [Dano] was amazing at carrying me around [in Swiss Army Man]. I wanted to be there as much as possible but didn't want to hurt Paul's back, but Paul often chose me over the dummy many times on the set. But yeah, to be honest, a little bit of preparation I did with my friend in my flat could never have prepared me for quite the level of physical reliance we would have on each other.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Hurt, Army, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I hope people have pulled something about me and said "Hey Mr. T loves his mother, hey Mr. T ain't no dummy, hey Mr. T never grabbed his crotch," when you're talking about Hip-Hop culture.

  Mr. T

  Mother, Talking, People

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of the book). Then finally the pencil "dummy", then the finished art which is like painting pieces of a jig saw puzzle.

  Tomie dePaola

  Art, Book, People

  Source: www.thechildrensbookreview.com

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• Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.

  Larry Sultan

  Believe, Knowing Better, Laughing

  "At Home With Larry Sultan" by Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 7, 2014.

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• It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Real, Imagination

  Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast (2004). “The Guermantes Way”, Viking Press

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• Listen Wanderlei, I will do a home invasion on you. I will cut the power to your house and the next thing you'll hear is me climbing up your stairs in a pair of night vision goggles I bought in the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine. I'll pick the lock to the master room door, take a picture of you in bed with the Nogueira brothers working on your 'jiu-jitsu'. I'll take said quote unquote photograph, post it at dorksfrombrazil.com, password - not required, username - not required. That, Wanderlei, is how you threaten someone. Dummy.

  Chael Sonnen

  Brother, Home, Cutting

  "Anderson Silva: Chael Sonnen not that evolved". Interview with Carlos Eduardo Ozório, www.mixedmartialarts.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It's just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Food, Humorous

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• I got run over by a bug-eyed dummy, I guess.

  Sterling Marlin

  Running, Bugs

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• That was one of the bravest, stupidest things you’ve ever done,” he said into my hair. “You just scared ten years off my life.” I let out a little laugh, adrenaline still pumping through my system. “You’re immortal, dummy.” “I was before I met you,” he quipped.

  Jenna Black

  Hair, Years, Laughing

  Jenna Black (2011). “Sirensong: A Faeriewalker Novel”, p.148, Macmillan

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• I drop styles on ears...the public bite 'em.
  Not many went to school, so the dummies wouldn't write 'em.
  They say, "Yo Keith! You're Kool, you usin' big words!"
  I went to college, I'm even more stupid, herb.

  Kool Keith

  Stupid, Rap, Writing

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• I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime. My parents were wonderful when I told them I wanted to be an entertainer.

  Ken Dodd

  Childhood, Parent, Idyllic

  "Dodd's Bolton Bonus". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.

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• I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.

  Shannon Hale

  Sorry, Scarecrow, Said

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• I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.

  J. D. Salinger

  Degrees, Want, Radio

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• Black people have this thing about calling themselves apes and monkeys I know they get real (whatever) and I don't blame em'. But I feel like I'm a brute. I am, but I'm smart though. I'm not a dummy.

  Sean Price

  Real, Smart, People

  Source: www.okayplayer.com

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• New Rule: News organizations have to stop using the phrase: "We go beyond the headlines." That's your job, dummy. You don't see American Airlines saying, "We land our jets on the runway"!

  Bill Maher

  Jobs, Land, Organization

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.140, Rodale

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• God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Soul, Stories

  Agatha Christie (1960). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of "mud mummies" around you, get rid of the mud.

  Perry Brass

  People, Fake, World

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.27, Perry Brass

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• When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved

  George Orwell

  Tired, Blood, Iron

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• When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives",and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.

  George Orwell

  Men, White Man, Tyrants

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• This is a dreadful thing to say, but I have wondered in my darker hours that, if everything were legal, wouldn't it be kind of a Darwinian solution to a lot of problems? Who are the bikies that you see who are cruisin' around with no helmet or with a hat turned around like that yoyo in Cheap Trick? They're dummies, and if they splatter their brains all over the sidewalk, they're not going to be collecting food stamps.

  Stephen King

  Brain, Be Kind, Hats

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Somewhere, there's someone who's masturbation ritual ends with them setting up ventriloquist dummies facing the bed. I mean, someone else.

  Dana Gould

  Mean, Bed, Masturbation

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Aug 04, 2013

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• This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world.” “Michael Jackson lived here?” “No, dummy,” Carter said. “Elvis Presley.

  Rick Riordan

  Home, Musician, World

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