Lost Quotes - Page 37

• If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

  Taylor Swift

  People, My Friends, Watchers

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• I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

  Daniel Tammet

  Years, Skills, Long

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• Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.

  Lewis Thomas

  Mistake, Stupidity, Encounters

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• A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

  Emma Thompson

  Friends, New York, Gay

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• Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

  Edward Thorndike

  Dog, Magazines, Accounts

  Edward Lee Thorndike (1898). “Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals”

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• Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

  Mark Twain

  Hope, Tree, Lord

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.115, 1st World Publishing

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• I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Cancer, Years, Feels

  "Why Is Sam Taylor-Wood Smiling?" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 23, 2010.

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• The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

  Bob Uecker

  Son, Errors, Games

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.

  Carrie Underwood

  Beach, New York, Husband

  "Sneak Preview of Glamour's". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. April 30, 2012.

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• I hate flying, airports and the whole rigmarole - queuing up, security and lost luggage.

  Johnny Vegas

  Hate, Airports, Flying

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• Never try to be witty with U.S. airport officials. It's always lost on them and you'll find yourself being put back on the plane.

  Johnny Vegas

  Witty, Airports, Finding Yourself

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• In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.

  Jesse Ventura

  Lasts, Wealth, Five

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• Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.

  Jesse Ventura

  Believe, Government, Lied

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• In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

  Donatella Versace

  Order, Discipline, Needs

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

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• I'm very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we recently lost two of our mates. I didn't know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Hands, Years, Two

  "Sebastian Vettel underlines dominance at India Grand Prix, taking pole, win, fastest lap and leading for every single lap". www.mirror.co.uk. October 30, 2011.

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• I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, People, Work Out

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• Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.

  Scott Walker

  Country, Jobs, Unemployment

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• I don't like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don't like waiting in airports when my bags are lost.

  Steve Waugh

  Inspirational Sports, Airports, Waiting

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• New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

  Anthony Weiner

  New York, School, Classic

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• I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.

  Paul Westerberg

  Thinking, Should, Evident

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• When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Hypocrisy, Parent, Adults

  "The Saturday interview: Vivienne Westwood" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2011.

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• If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.

  Betty White

  Hate, Men, Doors

  "Follow a lady's word: Betty White dispenses some relationship advice for the average male". Q&A, www.heraldextra.com. May 13, 2011.

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• Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.

  Ellen G. White

  Men, Suffering, World

  Ellen G. White (2014). “Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III”, p.956, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.

  George Will

  America, Office, Suitcases

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