Like Something Quotes

• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

  Joni Mitchell

  Daughter, Mother, Waiting

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• Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

  Bill Nighy

  Doe, Way, West

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• I do love to shop. But I'm a social shopper. I like to do it while hanging out with my friends. Some of them hate shopping because they treat it like something you have to plan, like a grocery list. But if I'm out and I pass a store, I just pop in.

  Nicole Richie

  Hate, Shopping, Lists

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

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• For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Should Have, Should

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• Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

  Joss Whedon

  Firefly, Psychics, Space

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• I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself.

  Robin McKinley

  Yoga, Self, Class

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• And the rain was brain colored and the thunder sounded like something remembering something.

  Stan Rice

  Rain, Remember, Thunder

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• What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Libertarian Party, Long

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the way home to her fifth-floor walk-up. How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (breach of contract).

  Sloane Crosley

  Girl, Children, Book

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.115, Portobello Books

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• I think most Israelis prefer not to know. So for them, texts about the occupation are like something that's been written in a foreign language that they can't understand. If they want, you can translate it to them. But it is their choice. In general, though, I think Israelis don't want to know. Very few do. Basically, I write to the converted.

  Amira Hass

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Law, Might, Taste

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

  Henry Miller

  Cities, Giving, Imagination

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.257, New Directions Publishing

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• God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Years, People

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

  Clive Bell

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

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• After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

  Monica Bellucci

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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• When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.

  Sarah Brightman

  Cat, Auditions, Records

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• From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

  Raymond Chandler

  Funny, Women, Class

  "The High Window". Book by Raymond Chandler, 1942.

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• It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

  Frank A. Clark

  Inspirational, Good Luck, Looks

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• When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

  Harlan Coben

  Blessing, You Re Pretty, Asks

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• Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

  David Duchovny

  Ideas, Sound, Needs

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• I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.

  Ina Garten

  Dinner, Drink, Upbeat

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• 'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

  Ellie Goulding

  Dad, Long, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.

  Lauren Slater

  Zero, Lasts, Return

  Lauren Slater (2000). “Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir”, Random House Incorporated

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• Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

  Marguerite Duras

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Marguerite Duras (1998). “Writing”, Brookline Books

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