Hooked Quotes - Page 4

• The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

  Midge Decter

  Children, Breathing, Hatred

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• Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Golf, Balls, Swamps

  Buddy Hackett (1968). “The Truth about Golf: And Other Lies”

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• According to the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, fish have feelings too. Whenever my sons go fishing they always tell me, "Dad it doesn't hurt a fish to get hooked." Well I watch and I see and I believe it's painful for the fish.

  Donald Trump

  Funny Inspirational, Hurt, Dad

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• Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

  Russell Lynes

  Men, Addiction, Tennis

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• If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

  Dan Farmer

  Computer, Intruders, Ifs

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• Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Turkeys, Leader

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.42, Seven Stories Press

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• I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.

  Andy Rooney

  Grandchildren, Fists, Littles

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• People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and kicking ass!' Now it's 'What do you reckon you'll be doing at 60?' and the answer's exactly the same. I'm always going to love Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple Haze' will still give me a hard-on when I'm hooked up to a life-support machine. Hey, even when I'm dead, they're going to have a hell of a job nailing the coffin lid down.

  Steven Tyler

  Jobs, Purple, People

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• I haven't had time to think about a relationship! I literally have not had a boyfriend in almost five years. I've never even hooked up with anybody I've worked on a movie with.

  Shailene Woodley

  Thinking, Years, Time To Think

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• I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

  Stephen Rea

  Acting, Enjoy, Stills

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• I love to win, honestly. ... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.

  Ashley Wagner

  Winning, Should, Honestly

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• Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.

  Edie Falco

  Men, Careers, Roles

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• The more we rely on the market, the more hooked we become on its promises: Do you need a tidier closet? A nicer family picture album? Elderly parents who are truly well cared for? Children who have an edge in school, on tests, in college and beyond? If we can afford the services involved, many if not most of us are prone to say, 'Sure, why not?

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Children, School, College

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• There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care.

  George Harrison

  Philosophy, Heart, Care

  Song: Poor Little Girl

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• I'm hooked on my baby's love, there ain't nothing in the jug this strong.

  Alan Jackson

  Baby, Strong, Jugs

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• I'm completely hooked on polo.

  Mike Rutherford

  Polo

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• I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

  A. Scott Berg

  Book, Age, Firsts

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• You know there's always that kid in your class — and every class has one — the kid who draws all the time and is really good? That was not me. I was a lousy draftsman. But as soon as I figured out that I could make things come alive, like using the corners of my math book to make flipbooks, I was hooked.

  Pete Docter

  Book, Kids, Math

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• The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

  John Oliver

  Feelings, Quality, Artistic

  "The (Not So Fine) Fine Art of The Pun". Interview with Benjamin Phelan, www.gq.com. August 5, 2011.

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• I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

  Joanna Lumley

  Kitchen, Bed, Toys

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• The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn't think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it hooked. If I'd known that I wouldn't have tried to hook it.

  Sterling Marlin

  Sports, Thinking, Hook

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• Ma sex game is stupid, my head is the dumbest, I promise, I should be hooked on phonics.

  Lil Wayne

  Sex, Stupid, Games

  Song: Every Girl

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• I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.

  Debi Mazar

  Grandmother, Cooking, My Grandmother

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• I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.

  Kiernan Shipka

  Band

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

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• And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.

  Ruben Blades

  New York, Albums, Firsts

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