Sides Quotes - Page 35

• To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.

  Eleanor Clark

  Artist, Firsts, Stakes

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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• I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

  Lionel Blue

  Song, Suffering, Weakness

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• The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

  Elihu Root

  War, Lying, Men

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Native American, Unbelievable, Tragic

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• In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

  Brett Favre

  Nfl, Mouths, Taste

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• I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

  Martin Scorsese

  Growing Up, Kids, People

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• Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a 'yeah'. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to ask. I've seen both sides and it's been very educational.

  Evelyn Ashford

  Educational, Athlete, Trying

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• I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Dark, Half Empty, Pessimism

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• I don't see here on this side; but I will see on the other side. I know I'll get to see. I know I'll get to walk those golden streets and I'll get to see Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; and I'll get to see the Lord. Oh yes I will.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Golden, Lord, Walks

  "Ronnie Milsap's Gospel Music". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• I don't like to dump the dressing on top of the greens. Instead, I pour it against the side of the bowl - using only enough to glaze the leaves - then toss.

  Bobby Flay

  Toss, Enough, Dump

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• My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Heart, People, Helping

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• There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Jobs, Wind, Oil

  "Climate Choice" by Evangeline Lilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.

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• I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

  Christina Aguilera

  Likes, Stage

  "Pop Tarts: Paris Planning Pregnancy; Christina Aguilera Poses Nude" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. November 29, 2007.

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• I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.

  Gabrielle Anwar

  Thinking, Reputation, Honest

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

  Nina Bawden

  Girl, School, College

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• When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.

  Rob Brydon

  Stars, Children, Kids

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

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• My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

  Swizz Beatz

  Art, Strings Attached, No Strings Attached

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• I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

  Ehud Barak

  Rivals, Politician, Both Sides

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• I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Reading, Animal, Fire

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

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• Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

  Iain Banks

  Player, Years, Gentleman

  "Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Interview with Michael Parsons, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.

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• What I have said to my team is that at a point such as this, with 40% adjustment in our currency, it means that Malawians are paying the price. While that is going on, they need to see, us, the commitment on our part, particularly right at the top. The political will needs to go through this with the people, side by side.

  Joyce Banda

  Team, Mean, Commitment

  "Malawi's head of state: 'Why I'm selling presidential jet'". Interview with Athena Jones, www.cnn.com. June 21, 2012.

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• I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Feel Good, Political, May

  "Vicente del Bosque: Putting regional tensions aside has united Spain" by Jimmy Burns, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2012.

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• Limp Bizkit is my main priority, but my side project, Black Light Burns, is still a labor of love. We have a record written, so we'll see when that comes out. When we tour, we go out in a van and trailer with me driving.

  Wes Borland

  Light, Priorities, Black

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• You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

  Young Buck

  Mainstream

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• I have a lovely office at the back of my house; it's an old stable and you can see right out to the countryside on one side and into the house on the other side.

  Eoin Colfer

  Office, House, Lovely

  "Quickfire interview: Eoin Colfer" by Jen Bowden, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

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