Halls Quotes - Page 13

• I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government - I'd give it all up for one erection.

  Groucho Marx

  Sex, Awards, Government

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• If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.

  Julian Bond

  Religious, Gay, Doors

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• I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride.

  Alfred Bunn

  Wall, Pride, Sides

  Michael William Balfe, Alfred Bunn (1856). “The Bohemian Girl: An Opera in Three Acts Performed by the Pyne and Harrison English Opera Troupe”, p.14

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• And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

  Wilfred Owen

  Smile, Sullen, Hell

  1918 'Strange Meeting', collected in Poems (published1920).

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• When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.

  Muhammad Ali

  Block, Home, Fighting

  Muhammad Ali, Richard Durham (2015). “The Greatest: My Own Story”, p.97, Graymalkin Media

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• I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.

  Earle Combs

  Player, Average, Superstar

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• At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children.

  Arsenio Hall

  Children, Doctors, Careers

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• I didnt know there were so many ways you could walk down stairs until the day we filmed Hermiones entrance into the Yule Ball Hall.

  Emma Watson

  Yule, Way, Balls

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• I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band... All I wanted was to be big, to be in show-business, and to travel...and that's what I've been doing all my life.

  Count Basie

  Country, Cities, Kansas City

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• John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which has stayed with me through my life. Geography is a living, breathing subject, constantly adapting itself to change. It is dynamic and relevant. For me geography is a great adventure with a purpose.

  Michael Palin

  Teacher, School, Adventure

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• Drs. Pinkett and Robinson choose to BE the message that they bring! They don't just enumerate the problems but offer solid solutions for navigating pathways to business ownership, and the halls and boardrooms of previously 'all white' corporate America. Black Faces in White Places is a necessary tool for anyone trying to make their own magic happen.

  Malik Yoba

  White, America, Black

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• When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Crazy, Smell, Hollywood

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.87, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

  Josh Groban

  Home, Race, Piano

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• When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Discovery, Trying, Research

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• The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most emphatically is not and never will be is a scruffy, ill-lit, fumed-oak drill hall serving as a temporary soap box for political propaganda.

  Noel Coward

  Political, House, Theatre

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• If you can find a passion at a young age, somewhere between fifteen and thirty, if you can find that passion, I can pretty much guarantee you that you can be sixty-five and still love that passion and still have a reason to dance out of bed and down the hall every morning.

  Stevie Nicks

  Morning, Passion, Age

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• My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall, and the orchestra was playing. When the show started, the spotlight was sharp on this one man (Andres Segovia) and he had sombrero on and his guitar propped up like this and, oh man ... he was a master ! - I really heard it. That one guitar sounded like a whole orchestra to me.

  B. B. King

  Music, Nice, Men

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• I’m not interested in teaching books by women.

  David Gilmour

  Real, Book, Teaching

  "Canadian author David Gilmour sparks furore over female writers" by Liz Bury, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2013.

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• I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue.

  Pooch Hall

  Hip Hop, Disrespect, Want

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• Speaker Boehner needs to understand the urgency for reform. Until the House passes a bill that includes a pathway to citizenship, we will continue to be in the streets, at town hall meetings and on the phones, demanding justice for the 11 million aspiring Americans in our country.

  Eliseo Medina

  Country, Phones, Justice

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• Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.

  Dustin Moskovitz

  Crazy, Feelings, Next

  "Dustin Moskovitz: Why I Left Facebook To Start Asana" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter with egg on his shirt and more too because the mirror in the hall has given up the ghost. A shipwrecked man without an anchor in the world except in his own liquid thoughts where time has lost its sequence.

  Per Petterson

  Men, Anchors, Eggs

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• They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry

  Bob Geldof

  Facts, Tom And Jerry, Jagger

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• That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Horse, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.139, Xist Publishing

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• The religious environmental movement is potentially key to dealing with the greatest problem humans have ever faced, and it has never been captured with more breadth and force than in RENEWAL. I hope this movie is screened in church basements and synagogue social halls across the country, and that it moves many more people of faith off the fence and into action.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Religious, Moving

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