Jam Quotes - Page 11

• This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Sports, Winning

  Twitter post from Nov 26, 2011

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• I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.

  Akiva Schaffer

  Mother, Daughter, Band

  "Viral Vidiots". www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.

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• The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce; trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wine, Vegetables, Meals

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• I remember traffic jams
  Motor boys and girls with tans
  Nearly was and almost rans
  I remember this, this
  ...
  At the edge of the continent

  Michael Stipe

  Girl, Crazy, Boys

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• She's the coolest person in the world...I don't date what the person does...You know what I mean? I could have been a zitty teenager and walked into a Tower Records, and we would have talked about Pearl Jam, and we would have fallen in love when we were 15. And that's when you know. It's like, oh, my God, game over.... Listen, there are a lot of women in this country, in many countries, who date men for their money. Okay? That's despicable. Right? That's not what we're talking about here. Whatever does it for you, man.

  Adam Levine

  Country, Teenager, Mean

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• Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!

  Charles Kelley

  Brother, Growing Up, Hippie

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• It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

  Rebecca West

  Writing, Race, History

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• The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.

  Sandy Koufax

  Baseball, Winning, Trying

  "My Greatest Day in Baseball, and Baseball's Greatest Quotations: An Illustrated Treasury". Book by Paul Dickson, 2008.

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• We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the ground, have traffic jams, parking problems , and we-d do a lot better to look up a little bit because there is that great aerial highway that-s always ready to go, you Don't have to pave it and the benefits are very great.

  Paul MacCready

  Two, Looks, Benefits

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• I don't have too much time to jam with the rest of Hollywood.

  Jeff Bridges

  Hollywood, Too Much

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• Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of course, she was always catching her standing at the open fridge, staring at it longingly. The power of denial.

  Liane Moriarty

  Giving Up, Wine, Denial

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• Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about. Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Givers, and Foo Fighters are just some of my favorites. I respect bands that give me something of themselves that I can feel. ("Posing" bands turn me off generally speaking.) It all has to do with a feeling I have about them. That is what music is to me, a feeling. It's similar with people too.

  Neil Young

  Morning, Son, People

  Neil Young (2012). “Waging Heavy Peace Deluxe”, p.210, Penguin

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• There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

  John Updike

  Patience, Tunnels, Doubt

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.80, Random House

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• Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.

  Sandra Dallas

  Summer, Winter, Blue

  Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.89, Macmillan

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• What is it with McDonald's staff who pretend they don't understand you unless you insert the 'Mc' before the item you're ordering? It has to be a McChicken burger...a chicken burger gets blank looks. Well, I'll have a McStraw and jam it into your McEyes, you f**cking McTosser!

  Billy Connolly

  Mcdonalds, Looks, Burgers

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• Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

  Diane Johnson

  Laughter, Add, Flavor

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• The elephant which supports the world is called Muha-pudma, and the the tortoise which supports the elephant is called Chukwa. In some of the Eastern mythologies we are told that the world stands on the backs of eight elephants, called Achtequed-jams.

  E. Cobham Brewer

  Eight, Elephants, Support

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• The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Inspirational, Stress, Kids

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• There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.

  Brian Tracy

  Miles, Traffic, Extras

  Brian Tracy (2004). “Getting Rich Your Own Way: Achieve All Your Financial Goals Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.95, John Wiley & Sons

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• The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Two, Band, Stuff

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• I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

  Noel Gallagher

  Rap, People, Hip Hop

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• I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

  Jim Carrey

  Depression, Long, People

  "What Broke Up Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey?" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. April 8, 2010.

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• A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.

  Andrew Joseph Galambos

  Liberty, Libertarian, Socialism

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• Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

  A. C. Benson

  Sticks, Pot, Stores

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• Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.

  Rose Macaulay

  Children, Thinking, Nuts

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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