Guts Quotes - Page 12

• In my first stand-up acts there wasn't material even. You know, I'd go on stage and cry and read a Dear John letter or gut fish on stage. I could be odd - and it's what interested me as a comedian.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Comedian, Goes On, Letters

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I never wanted the ha-ha-ha laughter [at my shows]. I always aimed for the gut. I always aimed for the pretty girls in the front row, laughing and leaning over and pooting.

  Tracy Morgan

  Girl, Laughter, Laughing

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood,
  Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud,
  Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.

  Jonathan Swift

  Rain, Cat, Tumbling Down

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.246

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• Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Courage, Silly, Ignorant

  "Fictional character: Gunnery Sergeant Hartman". "Full Metal Jacket", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

  Sam Raimi

  Blood, Talking, Ifs

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• I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

  Mae Whitman

  School, People, Hurtful

  "Mae Whitman Interview PARENTHOOD and SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 12, 2010.

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• I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.

  Jeff Zucker

  Mistake, Thinking, Leader

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• I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.

  Will Self

  Attention, Pay, Facts

  "Will Self: modernism and me" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2012.

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• I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Zero, Emotional, Blood

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

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• I act with my gut instincts.

  Alanna Ubach

  Instinct, Gut Instinct

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Evil, Hats, Consciousness

  1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.41 (translated by E F J Payne).

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• My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.

  Shirley MacLaine

  New York, Kingdoms, Firsts

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

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• The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.

  John Gregory Dunne

  Work, Book, Nerves

  John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.197, Zola Books

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• You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Trust, Karma

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.

  Johnny Depp

  Alcohol, Drug, Way

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• It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Strong, Thinking, Mma

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• I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.

  Dave Grohl

  Writing, Thinking, Singing

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True beauty grips your gut and squeezes your lungs, and makes you see with utmost clarity exactly what is before you. True wisdom then steps in, to interpret, illuminate, and form a life-altering insight.

  Vera Nazarian

  Wise, Real, Mean

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• I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.

  Fred Seibert

  Heart, Dark, Imagination

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• I listen back, and I hear what's there, and I know in my heart, in my gut, that we [The Replacements] were the real deal. No one can take that away. You can call us buffoons, or clowns or whatever. But when we wanted to, we were as good as anybody.

  Paul Westerberg

  Real, Heart, Replacements

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

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• Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.

  George Luks

  Art, Shoes, Paint

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• If you need help or advice, ask for it, but don't worry too much about hurting other people's feelings by not doing what they say. If your gut says no, trust it. Do what seems right.

  Ariel Gore

  Hurt, People, Worry

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• Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word. Perhaps our gut feeling that it cannot be so reflects only our hopes and prejudices, our desperate striving to make sense of a complex and confusing world, and not the ways of nature.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Feelings, Confusing, World

  "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Chance Riches", p. 342, 1983.

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• The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children - we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Children, Sleep, Unique

  "Woman Hating". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1974.

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• I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.

  Paul Newman

  Mind, Doe, Body

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