Kicking Quotes

• You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Funny, Sarcastic, Men

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• A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

  William Faulkner

  Patience, Years, Mules

  William Faulkner (2011). “Flags in the Dust: The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which appeared in a cut version as Sartoris”, p.290, Vintage

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• Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

  Jet Li

  Short Love, Powerful, Love Is

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• All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspiration, Successful, Doors

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, Self, World

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  Never dull your shine for somebody else.

  Tyra Banks

  Confidence, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by Tyra Banks from Aug 30, 2011

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• I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicking back like in my huge mansion, if everything goes right, it's all up to me.

  Corey Haim

  Thinking, Years, Kicking Back

  "Me, Myself and I". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.

  Susannah York

  Dog, Bullying, Children

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• I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

  Larry Niven

  Stories, Six, Five

  Concat interview, www.concatenation.org. 1988.

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• Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been

  Harold Brodkey

  Kicking It, Alive, Radio

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• If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.

  Mike Weir

  Sports, Money, Hurt

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• Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

  Keanu Reeves

  Inspirational, Dance, Training

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• Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

  Walter Winchell

  Inspirational, Long, Criticism

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• Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

  Patti LaBelle

  Strong, Kicking It, Prisoner

  FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Jan 25, 2013

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• At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.

  Gerry Beckley

  Nice, Unique, Groups

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• It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

  Al Jourgensen

  Second Chance, Want, Heroin

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• I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Cheer, Hate, Actors

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2003). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

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• I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I'm 63, and still kicking. I've been putting records out every year.

  Roy Ayers

  Years, Kicking It, People

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• I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.

  Maxine Waters

  Thinking, Doors, Kicking It

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• All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

  Harry S. Truman

  Kissing, Men, People

  Letter to his sister, 14 Nov. 1947, in Off the Record: the Private Papers of Harry S. Truman (1980) p. 119

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• I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.

  Yancy Butler

  People, Kind, Ass

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• You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.

  Hayden Fry

  Old Fashioned

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• I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'

  Les Dawson

  Funny, Mother, Humorous

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• All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Successful, Men, Doors

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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