Quality Quotes - Page 29

• I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Thinking, People, Facts

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

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• I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Funny, Basketball, Dog

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• Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

  Ann Oakley

  Mother, Children, Dedication

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Housewife”, Lane, Allen

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• I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Self, Expression, Care

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• I love to work out and really enjoy the outdoors. I like to immerse myself with sport-related activities and spending quality time with people. I find people to be very inspiring, and I get a lot of motivation from listening and interacting with them, sharing stories and similarities - and differences - in our lives, and learning from each other.

  Apolo Ohno

  Sports, Motivation, Differences

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• Sense of smell, of course, is only one of those dog qualities that can't be replicated or improved upon. I've been researching dogs in warfare for my book about 'Rin Tin Tin,' and I've read many accounts of their heroics: carrying messages through battle, alerting troops to enemy planes, and even parachuting behind enemy lines.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Book, Smell

  "Hero Dogs" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2011.

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• Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

  Camille Paglia

  Opera, Soap, Used

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• If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Amy, Stuff, Favourite

  "Chuck Palahniuk: 'I wrote the book while my mother was dying of cancer'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 03, 2011.

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• I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

  Michael Palin

  People, Trying, Majority

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

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• We never love a person, but only qualities.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Persons

  Blaise Pascal (1946). “Pascal's Pensées, or, Thoughts on religion”

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• When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

  Mandy Patinkin

  People, Trying, Delivery

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• I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

  James Patterson

  Children, Believe, Book

  Scholastic Book Fairs Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.

  Bev Perdue

  Country, Fighting, Equal Pay

  "Gov. Bev Perdue DNC 2012 speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

  Rick Perry

  Believe, Health, School

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• My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

  Rick Perry

  Simple, Class, People

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• I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.

  River Phoenix

  Surroundings, Chameleon

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

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• It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

  Martha Plimpton

  Important, Levels, Good Times

  "Greg Garcia and Martha Plimpton Talk Raising Hope: Cheaters". Interview with Brian Gallagher, tvweb.com. April 19, 2011.

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• Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

  Plutarch

  Enemy, Excellent, Brilliant Ideas

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• What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.

  John Podhoretz

  Hero, People, Evil

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• Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.

  Lucy Powell

  Prevention, Demand, Care

  "Labour created the NHS and has safeguarded its future" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

  Samantha Power

  Thinking, People, Get Better

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• As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

  Priscilla Presley

  Humor, Caring, Parent

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• All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

  Anna Quindlen

  Needs, Opinion, Columnists

  "Anna Quindlen: Over 50, And Having 'Plenty Of Cake'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kcur.org. April 24, 2012.

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• I always saw Michael Gambon wearing madly psychedelic socks, and I always thought that's it is one of the few areas where men can really express colour and have a bit of a dandyish quality to their outfit.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Men, Saws, Psychedelic

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• To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Confidence, Humility, Two

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