Lists Quotes

• I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

  Billy Wilder

  Movie, Great Year, Hollywood Films

  Billy Wilder (1999). “Sunset Boulevard”, p.22, Univ of California Press

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• You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in the first 1,000.

  Chris Waddle

  Thinking, League, Firsts

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• Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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• There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.

  Robert Breault

  Excuse, Reason, Sufficient

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• If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Happiness, Baseball

  Yogi: It Ain't Over (1989)

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• Lists are a form of power.

  A. S. Byatt

  Form

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• I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them.

  Freema Agyeman

  Sticks

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• Americans around the country who came forward to make my 'bucket list' dream come true.

  Brittany Maynard

  Dream, Country, Buckets

  " Brittany Maynard's bucket list beckons her to Grand Canyon" by Bill Briggs, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Of course, there are questions that plague all of us. How did we get here? What happens when we die? Is there a heaven? Am I on the list? Who let the dogs out?

  Bill Maher

  Dog, Heaven, Plague

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• We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog, or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board. They are divine counsel, based on eternal truths.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Ideas, Long, Boards

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• Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.

  Anna Quindlen

  Running, Teacher, Rap

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.111, Ballantine Books

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• My top three personal best-dressed list: Lea Michele. I think she really knows how to dress. Blake Lively is great. And Rihanna. I really respect how bold and out-there she is.

  Janel Parrish

  Thinking, Dresses, Three

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Teenager, Artist, Thinking

  "Madeleine Peyroux looks deep inside". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 19, 2009.

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• I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age.

  Regis Philbin

  Thinking, Doctors, Years

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• The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.

  Sara Paretsky

  Book, Names, America

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• If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.

  Thomas Perry

  Writing, Character, Sight

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• But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.

  Ali Smith

  Style, Ingredients, Sides

  Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.

  Eric Stoltz

  Scratches, My Favorite, Scene

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• You have no idea of how many people have control of your life. Make lists of people you trust and love and constantly examine the people in your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas, Control Of Your Life, People

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• Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things in your life? Are you adopting superficial values? Are you giving your being enough room? Are you doing new and creative things?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Creative

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• When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Ideas, Finals, Fantasy

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• If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Writing, Names

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• I was trying to be appreciative for the education I had, for the sacrifices my parents made. I was very interested in perfect attendance, OK, and straight A's and, you know, dean's list, because those I think were worthwhile, you know, endeavors. And it was important to spend my time in that way and become well-rounded.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Perfect

  "Who's responsible for the fall of Ramadi: Iraq or the US?". "The Five" with Dana Perino, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Juan Williams, Eric Bolling, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. May 19, 2015.

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• "It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

  David Crosby

  Truth, Freedom, Knowledge

  Interview with Ben Fong-Torres, www.rollingstone.com. July 23, 1970.

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.

  Harold Geneen

  Attitude, Sarcasm, Vanity

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