Kicking Quotes - Page 2

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

  Harold Brodkey

  Kicking It, Alive, Radio

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong Women, Memorable, Feminist Art

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.

  Stephen King

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.200, Anchor

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• When life is kicking others in the teeth, Become a dentist.

  Kevin Myers

  Life, Teeth, Dentist

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• If people are kicking you in the behind, at least you're in front of them.

  Billy Graham

  Encouragement, People, Behinds

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• Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Sexy, Dad, Kids

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Past, Hypocrisy, Way

  "The News Quiz", BBC Radio 4, November 2008.

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• Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate pain in order to give the illusion of gain. I'm not saying I reject success, but honestly, I don't quite know how to deal with it. It's an old feeling: As soon as you have the thing you've been going after all your life, that reasonable degree of security, you start kicking against it, doubting it.

  Hugh Laurie

  Success, Pain, Thinking

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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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• In karate, hitting, thrusting, and kicking are not the only methods, throwing techniques and pressure against joints are included … all these techniques should be studied referring to basic kata

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Technique, Hitting, Joints

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• Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

  Peter Watts

  Powerful, Best Effort, Climate Change

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• I’m about to enter a national ass-kicking contest. With no legs. And a massive ass.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Legs, Ass, Contests

  "Crass Roots" by Emily Nussbaum, www.newyorker.com. May 6, 2013.

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