Kicks Quotes - Page 20

• You can't legitimately kick on income tax, for it's on what you have made. You have already made it. But, look at land, farms, homes, stores, vacant lots. You pay year after year on them whether you make it or not.

  Will Rogers

  Home, Land, Years

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Turning the other cheek is not always the answer. In a certain situation on a certain day for a certain person, it's correct. Sometimes a good roundhouse kick on a certain day in a certain situation for a certain person is correct.

  Frederick Lenz

  Answers, Sometimes, Christianity

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• Grab this land! Take it, hold it, my brothers, make it, my brothers, shake it, squeeze it, turn it, twist it, beat it, kick it, kiss it, whip it, stomp it, dig it, plow it, seed it, reap it, rent it, buy it, sell it, own it, build it, multiply it, and pass it on — can you hear me? Pass it on!

  Toni Morrison

  Brother, Kissing, Land

  "Song of Solomon". Book by Toni Morrison, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1977.

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• If you're humble in defeat, everyone may still kick you, but they won't kick you as much.

  Forrest Griffin

  Humble, Mma, May

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• I think the kicks in Wing Chun are enough. It´s much easier to use your hands than to use your feet. Your hand is able to reach your opponent long before your foot. Why take the long way to attack (circle), when there is a much more direct method of attack? If you are using your hands, then your opponent can´t see a kick coming if you have to use it. When you teach Kung Fu, you can fool a lot of people, but not yourself. You can make like a movie and do many complicated movements and kicks, but you only fool yourself as to whether that would work in a real situation of life and death.

  Wong Shun Leung

  Real, Thinking, Hands

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• I expect to pass through this world but once and therefore if there is anybody that I want to kick in the crutch I had better kick them in the crutch now, for I do not expect to pass this way again.

  Maurice Bowra

  World, Want, Way

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• I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Discovery, People

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature

  Sylvia Brownrigg

  Years, Year End, Mind

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• As far as guitar goes, it's weird to have such a challenging activity in my life for so long - I love it. It kicks my ass every day.

  Vernon Reid

  Guitar, Long, Challenges

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Sometimes the show needs that kick in the ass so being able to sing a Nirvana song kind of takes it there. I've grown up putting on extravagant shows with Girl Talk so when I'm playing I like to go nuts. After 30 minutes of pointing and clicking it's nice to scream into a microphone for three minutes.

  Girl Talk

  Girl, Song, Nice

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• When I start to paint, it is real agony. I get nervous. The day before, I am already working up to it. Then I get to the studio and, once the image starts to emerge and come together, pleasure kicks in. And then you can see things that no other person can see.

  Luc Tuymans

  Real, Agony, Anxiety

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• Don't overload Gratitude; if you do, she'll kick.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gratitude, Overload, Ifs

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• I believe I'll take off my colors for awhile / And just kick back and sing some blues.

  Ray Wylie Hubbard

  Believe, Color, I Believe

  Song: After All These Years, Album: Eternal and Lowdown

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• Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.

  John Wooden

  Doors, Common Sense, Emotion

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• When life kicks me, I kick it back.

  Tarryn Fisher

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• It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hero, Men, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1012, Delphi Classics

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• I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Winning, Player

  "Yes, Great Players Can Make Good Coaches". Interview with Ross Atkin, www.csmonitor.com. January 29, 1998.

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• Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town

  Bob Dylan

  New York, Hard Times, Cities

  Song: Hard Times in New York Town

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• I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict..." What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.

  Harold Pinter

  Lying, Kissing, Add

  "Oh, Superman". Broadcast for "Opinion" on Channel 4 (May 31, 1990); later quoted in Harold Pinter "Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2005" (pp. 198-199), 2005.

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• Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dog, Men, Too Much

  "Song: Born In The U.S.A". October 30, 1984.

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• You act like a normal human being and you treat them [actors around] like a buddy because you're all working together. It's no different than being Governor. You put a team together and say, "Guys, we all want to shine here. We all want to show that this administration is going to do things that other administrations have thought was impossible. Let's kick some ass together."

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Team, Shining, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd like to think that when I sing a song, I can let you know all about the heartbreak, struggle, lies and kicks in the ass I've gotten over the years for being black and everything else, without actually saying a word about it.

  Ray Charles

  Song, Lying, Struggle

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• If some of our teenage thrill seekers really want to go out and get a thrill, let them go up into the Northwest and tangle with the Grizzly Bear, the Polar Bear, and the Brown Bear. They will get their kicks, and it will cleanse their souls.

  Fred Bear

  Teenage, Soul, Thrill

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• The best player I ever played against was Paolo Maldini. We [Arsenal] played against Milan in the European Supercup [in 1995]. Maldini marked me and I didn't even get a kick of the ball all game. He was just unbelievable.

  Paul Merson

  Player, Games, Balls

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• My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation and emerged determined that no one–neither Japanese nor British–had the right to push and kick us around.  We determined that we could govern ourselves and bring up our children in a country where we can be proud to be self-respecting people.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Country, Children, War

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