Moving Quotes - Page 5

• When you think of 244 years of slavery and 81 years of that finally you are going to be allowed to be part of the pool from which people choose jobs. That's not a substantive kind of move, but it was very important.

  Cornel West

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.

  Cornel West

  Doors, Community, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and injustice while convincing ourselves that we are in fact moving toward what Churchill called the "broad, sun-lit uplands."

  Jon Meacham

  Art, America, Long

  "Book World Live: Jon Meacham Discusses His Acclaimed Andrew Jackson Biography 'American Lion' with Readers". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. December 16, 2008.

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• I am quite prepared to die here [in NY]. It doesn't matter at all. I don't know better places, or perhaps if I do I am not prepared to make a move.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Matter, Prepared, Make A Move

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think only a superb news or reportage picture could move me. Other photographs may leave a strong impression on me, but they don't move me.

  Helmut Gernsheim

  Strong, Thinking, May

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• Television moves so fast. A series moves at such a rapid pace and things are changing, episode to episode, where you're going, "Wait, why am I doing this? This last episode, you told me I was doing this." You're shooting at a moving target.

  Mike Vogel

  Waiting, Target, Pace

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

  Richard Grossman

  Writing, Trying, World

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that. It is 'that's what you do, that's what you are', and that's a little unfair, to me, because I don't just do that. So I like singer/songwriter because it allows me to move a little bit more freely.

  Frank Ocean

  Artist, Simple, Littles

  Source: thequietus.com

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• What playing solo has reminded me is how much I love electronic music and how much I love dance music. I'd like to move towards something more hypnotic and rhythmic rather than song-based.

  Gwenno

  Song, Solo, Dance Love

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If there's no magic of cinema, you only have the plain imagery of television. We are moving more and more towards a world devoid of meaningful experiences. We're going to the surface.

  Laszlo Nemes

  Meaningful, Magic, Cinema

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other social institutions all around the world, appear on TV, and continue to create music all in the hope to keep the struggle alive.

  Chuck D

  Struggle, Alive, World

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• I've known both misery and happiness, lived in so many different skins it is impossible for one skin to claim me. And I have felt like a wayfarer on an alien planet at times - walking, running, wondering about what brought me to this particular place, and why. But once I was here the dreams started moving in, and I went about devouring them as they devoured me.

  Gordon Parks

  Running, Dream, Skins

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• If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. Just make sure you clear the bold move with the people whose lives it's going to affect. Like George Washington, had to get all those guys who the British killed to agree to die. Neil Armstrong, had to crank a couple of elbows into Buzz Aldrin's face mask to make sure he got on the moon first. And Christopher Titus, well, he worked his dad for five grand. Ha ha. Who can't support who ? I know, it's complicated.

  Christopher Titus

  Couple, Dad, Moon

  "The Gift of the Car Guy". "Titus" (TV Series), m.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Firsts, Cameras, Twenties

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• Be prepared to cut your little extra lines that come after a big punchline and move on to the next joke or routine to give your set more punch and crispness. You can keep them in your set, but if the audience applauds your big line, don't do your tag when it dies down, just move on.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Cutting, Giving, Lines

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• I'm trying to make the case that the church can indeed, from within its own resources, move out of a false, and often a hateful, characterization of and set of attitudes toward gay and lesbian people.

  James Alison

  Attitude, Gay, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• It's like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of boxes and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My friend comes over and says Hey, you moving? Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week to see how many boxes it takes. Here's your sign.

  Bill Engvall

  Wife, House, Hey

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• If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. George Washington, took on the British Empire. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Ken Titus taped a hotel key to his underwear to score with an airport security guard.

  Christopher Titus

  Moon, Keys, Airports

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• All of Dad's relationships ended exactly the same: subpoena, beep of a moving van backing up the driveway, pile of his clothes burning on the front lawn.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Clothes, Burning

  "Titus / The Break-Up". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. The pilgrims came here with the best intentions. They decided to flee an oppressive people and move to a new land. Where they thrived. And became an oppressive people. You get certain people on the same continent, there's going to be a problem. Pilgrims and Indians. Protestants, Catholics. My family, anybody else's family.

  Christopher Titus

  Holiday, Land, Two

  "Titus / The Perfect Thanksgiving". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I always hate having to use the equipment after these huge buff guys who move, like, the entire rack of plates. Then I get on, and move two plates, you know like: CLANK! CLANK! "I'm the two plate guy!" CLANK! CLANK! "Anyone wanna spot me?" CLANK! CLANK!

  Brian Regan

  Hate, Two, Guy

  TV Series "Comedy Central Presents" ("Brian Regan", 2000), www.imdb.com. (1998–).

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• You could drive a rental car until you don't want it. Just get out of it while it's moving and just walk away. No, I don't feel like being in that car any longer. Just call Hertz. Hi, your car is drifting into the intersection of 28th and Broadway, if you're interested. It's now your problem.

  Louis C. K.

  Car, Broadway, Want

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• It was awkward and embarrassing, but you have to go through things, ... I got through it and I'm happy it's over with and I can move forward and start playing.

  Eddie Griffin

  Awkward, Embarrassing, I Can

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• I'm a black male, over 40, with no kids, living in the suburbs - they wanted to put me in a museum. Why did I move to the suburbs? I started watching Desperate Housewives. If comedy didn't work out I can always try gardening.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Kids, Museums, Work Out

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• My standup has always been a direct reflection of my life. When I was single, I talked about single stuff. I talked about dating. When I got married there were only a handful of stories I could move over to where I wasn't going to be disrespectful to my wife. So I developed a new routine.

  Henry Cho

  Reflection, Wife, Dating

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