Occasional Quotes

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  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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• 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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• I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

  Shirley Knight

  Film, Odd, Endless Love

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• The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

  Gabriel Byrne

  People, Way, Artistic

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• Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

  Dick Cheney

  Heart, Heart Attack, Felt

  2003 In Newsweek,16 Jun.

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• If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Life, Passion

  "The Pleasures of Love," in "Saturday Night", December 23, 1961.

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• I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

  Neil Diamond

  Attitude, Inspiration, Perfection

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• A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Women

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

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• I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.

  Maurice Strong

  Believe, Moving, Gathering

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• A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

  Cyril Connolly

  Emotion, Reason, Violent

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• A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Years, Crow, Three

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• When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Sleep, Night, Hammers

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

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• I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.

  David Talbot

  New York, Thinking, Important

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• I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.

  Elmer Bernstein

  People, Made, Found

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• Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Women, Hunting, Males

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Lying, Rain, Dark

  "Paul Clifford". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1830.

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• An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

  Ogden Nash

  Learning, Men, Wife

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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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• 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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