Guy Quotes - Page 33

• I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

  Nigel Short

  Learning, Play, Chess

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• The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.

  Bill Lee

  Self, Yankees Baseball, Egotistical

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• I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.

  David Zucker

  Love, Stupid, Dumb

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

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• Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

  Mickey Spillane

  Book, Writing, America

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• People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.

  Jayson Blair

  Media, Years, People

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• I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

  John Mayer

  Goal, Promise, Want

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• I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.

  Marc Singer

  Years, Track, Giving

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• I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

  Bob Edwards

  News, Conservative, Kind

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• All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of life flowing through you, through her, through all the guys behind you and after you, the flowers and the birds and the sun streaming in and the fragrance of it choking you, annihilating you.

  Henry Miller

  Flower, Men, Bird

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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• I never thought about whether film is inherently more sincere, because certainly I think if Guy Maddin had directed A Series Of Unfortunate Events, there probably could have been more of the stage-y irony that is in the books. But I was just interested to see what people would do with it, and worrying that Brad Silberling wouldn't do what I had in mind.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'

  Andre Dubus

  Grief, Dark, Thinking

  "The Exchange: Andre Dubus III". Interview with Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Here's a guy who when he runs, he moves faster.

  John Madden

  Funny, Running, Moving

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• He might want to watch where he lands when tackling that guy, because he could really hurt his hand if it gets stepped on.

  John Madden

  Funny, Hurt, Land

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• I'm not a Hollywood guy.

  Kevin James

  Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to say, 'I like you, I want to go out with you, you can ask me.' And still I would question it. Did she mean it?

  Kevin James

  I Like You, Mean, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a numbers guy, and I think numbers sometimes tell stories and sometimes they don't. When you look at the NBA, when teams shoot 45% or better from the floor, what is their record? And if they shoot under that what is their record?

  Doug Collins

  Team, Thinking, Numbers

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• Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!

  John Eldredge

  Nice, Boys, Men

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• I just want to be treated like an average guy.

  John Fahey

  Average, Want, Treated

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• I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.

  Luke Ford

  Sound And Music, Special, Watches

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• I talk about things from the perspective of the consumer - mostly because that's what I am. A guy going out and buying things and sharing that experience with the viewer. Nothing should change that, but if it ever does, I'll absolutely make it known.

  Marques Brownlee

  Buying Things, Perspective, Doe

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 18, 2014.

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• The whole thing is you don't want to be pigeon-holed as 'Oh, he's a guy in a wheel chair. He's very fragile. You better watch out.

  Mark Zupan

  Watches, Want, Pigeons

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• My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

  Alan King

  Father, Smart, Hero

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• If the Constitution says that the little guy should win, the little guy is going to win in court before me, ... But if the Constitution says that the big guy should win, well, then the big guy is going to win because my obligation is to the Constitution.

  John Roberts

  Winning, Littles, Constitution

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• How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Stupid, Bronze Medal

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• The world of comic book collecting is not a pretty place. For a bunch of guys who like good-over-evil stories, you sure meet a lot of morally bankrupt assholes.

  Seth

  Book, Evil, Stories

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