Feds Quotes - Page 31

• [On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.

  Evelyn Anthony

  Cities, Careers, Rumor

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• Americans are used to being pandered to and spoon-fed everything. In a culture that needs caffeine-free cherry chocolate diet Coke, you'd best deliver information with entertainment.

  Bill Maher

  Chocolate, Entertainment, Needs

  Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September 2008.

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• I just get excited doing shows. Off stage I am actually very feeble and must be spoon-fed because my hands are too brittle.

  Dane Cook

  Hands, Spoons, Excited

  "Dane Cook Interview". Interview with McClain Johnson, mcclainjohnson.com.

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• The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Art, Sex, Real

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• Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

  Masiela Lusha

  Children, Passion, Needs

  "REEL Lady: Masiela Lusha". reelladies.wordpress.com. September 1, 2008.

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• The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Wine, Glasses, Gentleman

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• We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.

  James Hollis

  World, Share, Findings

  James Hollis (2008). “What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life”, p.35, Penguin

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• There are too many over-fed, under-motivated Christians hiding behind the excuse that God has not spoken to them. They are waiting to hear voices or see dreams - all the while living to make money, to provide for their future, to dress well and have fun.

  Floyd McClung

  Christian, Dream, Fun

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• What if today.. you were inspired and fed by your thoughts instead of being confined by them?

  Marjo-Riikka Makela

  What If, Today, Inspired

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• I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.

  Ben Whishaw

  Stories, Music Love, Film

  "Interview: Actor Ben Whishaw on 'Cloud Atlas' + Playing Q in 'Skyfall'". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. October 31, 2012.

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• Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Self, Order, Should

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Faculty, Imaginative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.231

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• As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Fed Up

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• I'll never make another Hardy picture . . . I'm fed up with these dopey, insipid parts. How long can a guy play a jerk kid? I'm 27 years old. I've been divorced once and separated from my second wife. I have two boys of my own. I spent almost two years in the army. It's time Judge Hardy went out and bought me a double-breasted suit.

  Mickey Rooney

  Kids, Army, Boys

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• We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Egypt, Colonialism, Fed Up

  "Egypt’s Nawal El Saadawi: 'We Will Not Let Egypt Burn'". The Root Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.

  Imogen Heap

  Inspiration, Thinking, Finding Yourself

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• The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Men, Criminals, Crime

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• Throughout my work, my subjects are being told that they must change their diet in order to make the adjustment into the new world. Our bodies must become lighter, and this means the elimination of heavy foods. During the sessions, my clients are repeatedly warned to stop eating meat (beef and pork especially), mainly because of the additives and chemicals that are being fed into the animals.

  Dolores Cannon

  Mean, Animal, Order

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• Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Years, Atheism, Done

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• The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Men, Serenity

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.243, Xist Publishing

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• Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Perfect, Healthy, Democracy

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• The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.

  Warren Buffett

  Fund, Hedge Fund

  "If You Don’t Believe We’re Already Back on a Gold Standard, Think Again" by Max Keiser, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2013.

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• We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Law, Age

  "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, Chapter 42, 1836.

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• The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay, and every being that continues to be fed, and eases to labor, takes away something from the public stock.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Numbers, People

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• But I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life that are rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs.

  Herbert Hoover

  Spiritual, Spring, Struggle

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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