Rough Quotes - Page 39

• All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Understanding, Liberty, Rust

  "Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times". Book by Anthony Ashley-Cooper; Edition by Philip Ayres (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999) Vol. 1, pp. 39-40; "Sensus Communis", 1711.

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• The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation.

  Paul A. Baran

  Writing, Notes, Process

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.9, NYU Press

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• I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!

  Steve Harvey

  Girl, Boys, Winning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?

  Bill Vaughan

  Heart, Brave, England

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• Cutting edges are always a little rough.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Cutting, Progress, Littles

  Rosalie Maggio, The Women's Media Center (2015). “Unspinning the Spin: The Women's Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in.

  Eve Merriam

  Stars, Home, Cat

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• I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Real, Rough Edges, Persons

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• I like to find characters. Here's the bottom line: I can't play someone if I can't figure out what he cares about. Everybody cares about something, even a rough character. It defines where we step in life. As soon as you find out what somebody cares about, then it all gets real.

  William Fichtner

  Real, Character, Play

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• I used to always work in, like, warehouses, because if my boss gave me a rough time, I could just get on a forklift and just, like, drive away from him.

  Bill Burr

  Boss, Rough Times, Used

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• As an academic I feel I should intellectualize and theoretically analyze when all I really want to do is let the work take me somewhere, manipulate me, and then rough me up a bit. When it comes right down to it, I only want to spend time with work that makes me think and teaches me something while making my body react.

  Barbara Degenevieve

  Thinking, Body, Want

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• Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume.

  Ann Coulter

  Faces, Claims, Hume

  "No Wonder They're Afraid of Brit Hume" by Ann Coulter, townhall.com. May 3, 2007.

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• I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

  Dick Cavett

  Ice, Guests, Edgy

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• When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?

  Esperanza Spalding

  Portland, Bars, Neighborhood

  "Not My Job: Jazz Bassist Esperanza Spalding Gets Quizzed On Bases". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 26, 2016.

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• I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Boxing, Trying

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I've been on planes flying through thunder storms when the pilot says, 'ladies and gentlemen, we tried to fly around it but we can't so it's going to be rough'.And when a pilot says it's going to be bad, it's going to be rough. And you say to youself, boy, I could have got the train.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boys, Flying, Gentleman

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence.

  Ian MacKaye

  Years, Culture, Violence

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I like David Cameron. He has had a couple of rough statements, but that's okay, I think David Cameron's a good man.

  Donald Trump

  Couple, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Having done television for almost 20 years now, a pilot is kind of like a rough draft. It's like bringing people into your ultrasound and hooking up to the monitor and going, "Isn't my baby beautiful?" "Yeah. I can only see the outline of it, but it looks like it might be."

  Matt Bomer

  Beautiful, Baby, Ultrasounds

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

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• If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Military, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The hardest gig there is in entertainment is to be the lead in an hour show, especially if it's a show that's blood and guts and fighting. It's rough. I love to work, but to do something different is really exciting.

  Kevin Bacon

  Fighting, Blood, Gigs

  "Kevin Bacon on ‘I Love Dick’, ‘Tremors’, and Becoming a TV Actor". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 24, 2016.

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• While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Growing Up, Reality, Childhood

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Some good leaders are rough around the edges and some leaders are difficult. Some have difficult personalities and some are really nice to be around, but those are not the qualifications. The qualifications are their desire to see us achieve more, their desire to push us to be the best we can be. Not for their selfish gain, but because they believe that we have something to offer.

  Simon Sinek

  Selfish, Nice, Believe

  Source: www.quickbase.com

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• I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Goal, Trying, Coal

  "Song: "My Shot" ("Hamilton")". 2015.

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• It might be a little rough on some people for a while, but I think it's the only way to deal with drugs. Look at Prohibition: all it did was make a lot of criminals rich. Should be legalized for a matter of sanity.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, People, Drug

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

  Jane Fonda

  Leaving, Female, Radio

  Source: www.glamour.com

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