Sandy Quotes - Page 3

• Well, I met Sandy Bullock at an awards thing a couple years ago, and she said to me, “If I were gay, you’d be the one.” I said, “I’m there!”

  Emma Thompson

  Couple, Gay, Awards

  "The A-List Interview: Emma Thompson". Interview with Brandon Voss, www.advocate.com. January 9, 2014.

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• Come on Sandy, baby, loosen up, your too tight.

  John Riggins

  Baby, Nfl

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• Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

  Hope Davis

  Summer, Beach, New York

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

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• Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.

  Russel Honore

  New York, Cities, Two

  "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.

  Russel Honore

  Apples, Heartache, Hitting

  "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and the British floods—disasters that, combined, pummeled coastlines beyond recognition, ravaged millions of homes, and killed many thousands—are going to keep coming.

  Naomi Klein

  Home, Weather, Events

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Innocence, Youth

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.580, Simon and Schuster

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• I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Games, Twenties

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• Grease is one of the movies that made me want to be an entertainer, and I have literally been waiting my whole life to play Sandy. My siblings and I watched it and played it out over and over when we were kids. This is my dream role and performing it live on television will be one of the most thrilling opportunities I’ve had in my career so far.

  Julianne Hough

  Dream, Sibling, Kids

  "Fox Taps Julianne Hough, Vanessa Hudgens for 'Grease: Live'" by Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2015.

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• I started The Runaways with Sandy West. We shared the dream of girls playing rock and roll. Sandy was an exuberant and powerful drummer. So underrated, she was the caliber of John Bonham. I am overcome from the loss of my friend. I always told her, we changed the world.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Dream, Powerful

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• Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Promise, Climate, Needs

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• Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.

  Anna Quindlen

  Individuality, Pearls, Sometimes

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• Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Eternity Of Life, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sandy was particularly destructive because it was prevented from moving back out to sea by a "blocking pattern" associated with the jet stream. There's debate about this, but one recent study suggested that melting sea ice in the Arctic may lead to such blocking.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Block, Moving, Ice

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• Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it?

  John Fugelsang

  War, Iraq, Relief

  FaceBook post by John Fugelsang from Jan 02, 2013

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• Bopha, Sandy, floods in Pakistan, droughts in China… How many reports from the likes of the World Bank, NASA and the International Energy Agency will it take? How many preventable catastrophes until our leaders realize that climate change will not be solved by nice speeches and empty promises? Countries like Canada and the U.S. have promised to reduce their greenhouse gas pollution and provide adequate financial support for developing countries, they have so far failed on both counts.

  Steven Guilbeault

  Country, Nice, Agency

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• As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

  Plutarch

  Lying, Desert, World

  Parallel Lives "Aemilius Paulus" sec. 5

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• There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.

  Walther Rathenau

  Men, Race, Self

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• Personal credibility has everything to do with how others perceive us and how we perceive ourselves. Sandy Allgeier’s book teaches the all-important truth that it doesn’t matter how much money, status, or power you have if nobody believes in you. Every parent should read The Personal Credibility Factor and instill its lessons in their kids.Achieving a full understanding of these principles is the first step in becoming a truly great human being.

  Michele Borba

  Believe, Book, Kids

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• But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.

  Juan Marichal

  Team, Faces, Wanted

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• Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.

  Bobby Darin

  Mean, Son, Careers

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• A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is like a protestation against a first waft of ether.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Sweet, Fighting, Moon

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.

  Thomas Heywood

  Time, Glasses, Turns

  c.1607 A Woman Killed with Kindness, sc.13.

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• Sandy deWitt at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris in Johannesburg, South Africa, taught me to make a decision and stick with it. Every day we're faced with reasons why we shouldn't do good work: it's too scary, too hard to pull off, there's no time, no money, etc. You have to be brave and commit to your choices in the face of adversity. If you waver, nothing will turn out the way you imagined it.

  Melissa Sue Anderson

  Adversity, Decision, Brave

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• To be an effective leader, you must be trustworthy. If people don’t trust you, they won’t follow you. And if they won’t follow you, your organization won’t meet its goals. Sandy Allgeier explains that personal credibility comes down to a simple truth: It’s not about the type of person you are; it’s about the types of things you do. If you want to be a great leader, read The Personal Credibility Factor.

  Quint Studer

  Simple, Organization, People

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