Extras Quotes

• The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list.

  Daniel Yergin

  Two, Arabia, Lists

  "American Morning With Paula Zahn" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2002.

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• I met Cynthia when I was 12, proposed at 16, became engaged at 17, married her at 19 and we had a baby when I was 20. If extra work could pay for a lot of diapers, that was for me.

  Kent McCord

  Baby, Cynthia, Engagement

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• We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.

  Trevor Phillips

  Teacher, Black, Cash

  "Black absentee fathers should lose rights, says head of race watchdog" by Hugh Muir, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.

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• As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

  Roger Penrose

  Consistency, Requirements, Way

  "Secrets of the Old One". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?

  Roone Arledge

  Mean Girls, Thinking, Doe

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• If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Winter, Car, Growth

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• If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights.

  Laurence Olivier

  Thinking, Mad, Gone

  "Laurence Olivier". Book by Foster Hirsch, 1979.

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• Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Kids, Responsibility

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• Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

  William Shatner

  Epic, Aliens, Computer

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• I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Truth, Lying, Sometimes

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Extras”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

  Og Mandino

  Responsibility, Cutting, Thinking

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.102, Bantam

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• "Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Perseverance, Genius, Brightness

  "The papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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• Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.

  Ellen Muth

  Funny, Real, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  Aaron Neville

  Nice, Musical, Bonus

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• We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

  David Neeleman

  Smile, Fun, People

  "ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". San Francisco Chronicle Intreview, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.

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• But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.

  John Sayles

  Writing, Pigs, Guy

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• My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Mother, Pay

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• The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Jobs, Effort

  "Talk Asia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2005.

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• I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.

  Sandra Bullock

  Littles, Film, Enough

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• The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

  Joan Chen

  Happiness, Sex, Romantic Love

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

  E. M. Forster

  Liking Someone, Literature, Reason

  E.M. Forster (2016). “A Room With a View (Diversion Classics)”, p.83, Diversion Books

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• You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

  Stephen Fry

  Height, Six, Reason

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• You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

  Napoleon Hill

  Ambition, Character, Literature

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

  Andrew Mellon

  Jobs, Giving, Corporations

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• I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

  John Mortimer

  Years, Worry, Three

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

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