Flip Quotes - Page 12

• Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Law, Worry

  "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Whether it's an $11 flip-flop or a $2 key ring or a $2,000 dress, they're all done with integrity. They're all done with a design sense. As long as the creativity exists, then I don't think it's a sellout. A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it.

  Marc Jacobs

  Integrity, Creativity, Thinking

  Interview with Robert Duffy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 17, 2010.

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• You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.

  Michelle Kwan

  Regret, Mistake, Fall

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

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• If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.

  Denis Leary

  Real, Character, Sides

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• I was born in platform heels. I actually always fall down when I'm wearing flip-flops.

  Eva Longoria

  Fall, Born, Platforms

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• I'm really not a fascist. Everyone wears what they feel great in, or comfortable with. It's a beautiful day, you have an armless shirt: it goes with flip-flops.

  Christian Louboutin

  Beautiful, Shirts, Fascists

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• I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller.

  Bernie Mac

  Laughing, Needs, Tables

  Interview, www.ign.com. March 27, 2003.

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• I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

  Bernie Mac

  Stupid, Shoes, Voice

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• Jump off the beam, flip off the bars follows your dreams, and reach for the stars

  Nadia Comaneci

  Dream, Stars, Bars

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• I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.

  Gabby Douglas

  Crazy, Thinking, Flying High

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• One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and you flip him over and let him go on his way. The struggle that touches the heart.

  Charles Portis

  Struggle, Heart, Air

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• I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

  David Baldacci

  People, President, Stereotype

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• My elbows are double-jointed, so I can flip them inside out.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Elbows, I Can

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

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• If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Half, Pounds

  "In the Shadow of the Moon", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Sometimes I'll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it's just crazy!

  Kimberly Caldwell

  Crazy, Magazines, Sometimes

  "Five Questions with Kimberly Caldwell". www.seventeen.com. October 8, 2009.

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• The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Dad, Book, Men

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• I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

  Emily Browning

  Coins, Type, Persons

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• I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Running, Wall, Impressive

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• On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

  Anthony Shadid

  War, Careers, East

  "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

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• I love Tinkerbell because she's feisty and about it. She's got swag! She's going to do what she wants to do. I even have a Tinkerbell tattoo, and she is wearing Adidas flip-flops!

  Kidada Jones

  Tattoo, Swag, Adidas

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• I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.

  Steve Case

  Ideas, Lasts, Built

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• On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.

  Cory Lidle

  Play, Guy, Flipping A Coin

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• To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.

  Peter Farrelly

  Giving, Hollywood, Complaining

  "Movie 43 director tells critics to 'lighten up' after film bombs at box office" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2013.

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• Our modern, rootless times do seem to be a particularly inhospitable environment for loyalty. We come and go so relentlessly that our friendships can't but come and go too. What sort of loyalty is there in the age of Facebook, when friendship is a costless transaction, a business of flip reciprocity.... Friendship held together by nothing more permanent than hyperlinks is hardly the stuff of selfless fidelity.

  Eric Felten

  Loyalty, Together, Age

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• I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.

  John Lennon

  Music, Song, Giving

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