Occasional Quotes

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

Ted Nugent

Inspiration, Hiking, Mountain

Ted Nugent, Shemane Nugent (2005). “Kill It & Grill It: A Guide To Preparing And Cooking Wild Game And Fish”, p.1, Regnery Publishing

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No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

Anna Neagle

Water, Solitude, Family And Friends

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Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

Dean Kamen

Hard Work, Sacrifice, Succeed

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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

Olivia Newton-John

Daughter, Mother, Hurt

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

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Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

Christopher Hitchens

People, Dies, Millions

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

Government, Tyrants, Politics

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I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

Shirley Knight

Film, Odd, Endless Love

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Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

Oliver Lodge

Survival, Matter, Way

Oliver Lodge (2012). “My Philosophy: Representing My Views on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space”, p.295, Cambridge University Press

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German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

Brian Lumley

Real, Knowing, Thrill

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Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.

Mario Lopez

Drama, Balance, Comedy

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It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.

Charles Tennyson Turner

Farewell, Night, Perfect

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There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

Anne Rice

Writing, Typewriters, People

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A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Johannes Tauler

Religious, Exercise, Meditation

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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Men, History, Apathy

"The Columbia Book of Quotations" edited by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, (p. 900), 1993.

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When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.

John H. Johnson

People, Black, Minorities

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The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

Polykarp Kusch

Lying, Men, Effort

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Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

John Piper

Sex, Block, Kitchen

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Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Issues, Citizens, World

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Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.

Payne Stewart

Sports, Years, Trying

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A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

Oswald Mosley

Risk, Mind, Prophet

Oswald Mosley (2012). “My Life - Oswald Mosley”, p.238, Black House Publishing Ltd

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However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

Koichi Tanaka

Success, Needs, Faces

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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

Samuel Johnson

Home, Men, Honor

"The Rambler No. 68" by Samuel Johnson, November 10, 1750.

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Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does not communicate by word alone.

Ray Birdwhistell

Communication, Being Alone, Men

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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Robert Benchley

Funny, Sarcastic, Retirement

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Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Teacher, Retirement, Health

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