Hood Quotes - Page 11

• I was traveling down the road with a buddy and there's a guy driving around in a jeep with a dead deer strapped to the hood. My buddy says to me you think he's been hunting? Nope, They're probably giving them away with the purchase of every jeep. Here's your sign!

  Bill Engvall

  Thinking, Hunting, Giving

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• If I were a gynecologist, I'd say things like, Okay, enough of the small talk. Let's check under the hood.

  Dov Davidoff

  Gynecologists, Enough, Checks

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Dec 21, 2011

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• This is Robin Hood in reverse. These tax cap proposals favor those with the most expensive properties. We are spreading the taxes to those with some of the least expensive property.

  Clementa C. Pinckney

  Robins, Favors, Robin Hood

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• The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Important, Age, Robins

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• I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

  Young Buck

  Doing Me, Streets

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• When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, Robins, Roles

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• When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

  Ice Cube

  Interesting, Enough, Grew Up

  Interview With Nathan Rabin, music.avclub.com. August 19, 2010.

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• I'm looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America's hottest hood artists.

  Snoop Dogg

  Artist, Tv Shows, America

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

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• The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.

  Snoop Dogg

  Artist, Thinking, Idols

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

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• I believe that young people wearing hoods, unless they are very young, can be frightening. What are they hiding? Why don't they want to come out into the light with the rest of us? They may be perfectly nice, but the hoods send an uncertain statement.

  Roger Ebert

  Nice, Believe, Light

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• When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

  Feist

  Mean, Self, Casting

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• I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

  Bear Grylls

  Growing Up, Robins, Baptists

  "Question time". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2008.

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• I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.

  Queen Latifah

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2002.

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• The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

  Jon Meacham

  Texas, September 11, London

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• I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

  Paul Newman

  Character, Riding, Actors

  "Testing Himself". Maureen Dowd, The New York Times (section 6, p. 16, column 1), September 28, 1986.

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• I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.

  Brad Pitt

  Summer, Night, Oklahoma

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

  Pete Rose

  Missing You, Sports, Games

  "Distance" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 1980.

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• I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk.

  Steven Tyler

  Thinking, Risk, Aerosmith

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• I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.

  Tom Waits

  Lying, Ideas, America

  " Tom Waits gives the devil his due" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

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• You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

  will.i.am

  Technology, Editing, Cds

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• How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody fly with all that [stuff]. Wanna fly, you got to give up the [stuff] that weighs you down.’ The peacock jumped onto the hood of the Buick and once more spread its tail, sending the flashy Buick into oblivion.

  Toni Morrison

  Giving Up, Vanity, Tails

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• Farewell” is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by 2 oversize mice in black hoods. Words that you would like to hear are “Take me instead, I will go to the dungeon in my sons place.” There is a great deal of comfort in those words.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Farewell, Son

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• They walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance".

  Scott Westerfeld

  Names, Grace, Special

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• Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  People, Car, Phrases

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.312, Pan Macmillan

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• But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.

  Philippa Gregory

  Curves, Fever, Fool

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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