Mines Quotes - Page 14

• Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, School, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• An actress friend of mine shared a great trick. She told me to stick my tongue behind my teeth when I smile to keep from over-smiling. If you smile without doing it, sometimes your gums show a little too much. It's an actor's trick!

  Jessica Chastain

  Teeth, Actors, Gum

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• Music's another big love of mine.

  Thomas Brodie-Sangster

  Bigs

  "Thomas Brodie Sangster, Adult Actor". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2014.

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• If you had five photos of anuses, I could not point mine out.

  Karl Pilkington

  Anus, Five, Ifs

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• Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.

  Matthew Rhys

  Hero, People, Care

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• No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.

  Michael Jackson

  Space, Creative, Process

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• I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.

  Peter Doig

  Thinking, Outsiders, Trinidadians

  "Peter Doig: the outsider comes home". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

  Naturi Naughton

  Dream, Thinking, Important

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• In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've said to numerous reporters, "Would you read me back my direct quotes?" And they always say no. They always say that's against the policy.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Editors, People, Pet

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.

  Neil Gaiman

  Looks, Firsts, Strange

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

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• Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile.

  Wendy Williams

  Bmw, People, Use

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.

  Steve Martin

  Opportunity, Challenges, Trying

  "COVER STORY : A Side Order of Steve Martin : He's had his ups and downs with L.A., but they're back together in his new movie". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. February 3, 1991.

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• A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.

  Trick Daddy

  Thug, Decision, Skins

  Trick Daddy, Peter Bailey (2010). “Magic City: Trials of a Native Son”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe,
  Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine?
  I know thy parentage is base and low:
  Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.

  George Herbert

  Art, Dirty, Men

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• I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.

  Wale

  Thinking, Albums, Ifs

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• As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

  Jill Abramson

  Frustration, Past, Careers

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• I don't see Dior as something that could become mine. I see it as a dialogue with the women who wear it. I want to stay connected to them rather than to an abstract brand.

  Raf Simons

  Dior, Want, Abstract

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• We might have the worst bunch of guys together we've ever seen as a football team. I don't know what anybody else has, but I'd trade mine with anybody, sight unseen.

  Buddy Ryan

  Football, Team, Sight

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• Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine. I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Country, Taken, Mexico

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• Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good.

  Keith Hernandez

  Alex, Mickey, Very Good

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• The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, The Magic Monkey - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

  Nick Flynn

  Plato, Book, Years

  "The Ticking Is the Bomb" by Nick Flynn, www.esquire.com. January 24, 2008.

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• Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Morality, He Man

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• Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Successful, Pet, Gum

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• When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won't be disappointed in me.

  John Wayne

  Want, Uncomfortable, Disappointed

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• It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.

  Stephen Fry

  Silly, Apology, Mind

  Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot”, Random House (UK)

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