Guts Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Tongue, Should

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.484, GENERAL PRESS

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• Hobbies are for wimps who don’t have the guts to follow their passion.

  Valerie Thomas

  Passion, Hobbies, Wimps

  Valerie Thomas, Stacy Kramer (2013). “From What I Remember”, p.155, Egmont UK

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• I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.

  Winston Churchill

  Ocean, Army, Air

  "War Situation". Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. August 2, 1944.

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• The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

  Alan Greenspan

  Years, Important, Genius

  1995 In the NewYork Times, 6 Mar, shortly after the collapse of Barings in Singapore brought about by a young derivatives trader.

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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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• 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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• I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

  Ali Larter

  Believe, Blood, Long

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• From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Team, Writing, Heart

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.

  Douglas Booth

  Emotional, Attention, Pay

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

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• Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it "The No Fact Zone.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Night, People

  "Salad days for satire". "Future Tense" with Antony Funnell, www.abc.net.au. February 8, 2015.

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• I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.

  Jenny Eclair

  People, Feelings, Horrible

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• Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.

  Tim Cahill

  Feelings, Black, Drs

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• I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Roles, Done, Levels

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• Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?

  Lance Bass

  Gay, People, Up To You

  "'NSYNC's Lance Bass reveals he's gay: 'I'm not ashamed ... I don't think it's wrong'" by Jennifer Vineyard, www.mtv.com. July 26, 2006.

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• It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

  Natalie Dormer

  Brain, Directors, Roles

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• Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Gigs, Modern, Music Is

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• But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Smart, Stupid, Home

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• I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.

  David O. Russell

  Careers, Fighter, Instinct

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• I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.

  Anson Mount

  Thinking, Humanity, Quality

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. August 2012.

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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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• Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.

  Phyllis George

  Answers, Sometimes, Instinct

  Phyllis George (2002). “Never Say Never: 10 Lessons to Turn You Can't Into Yes I Can”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.

  Robin Thicke

  Song, Writing, White

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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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