Splits Quotes - Page 15

• It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Attention, Ensemble, Energy

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

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• Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.

  Jo Brand

  Small Packages, Packages, Hospitals

  "'Cold' nurses are an easy target - blame rotten NHS management". www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.

  Drew Barrymore

  Mother, Way, Young

  "April Release: Drew Barrymore". W Magazine Interview, www.wmagazine.com. March 17, 2009.

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• Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.

  Eric Alterman

  Differences, Warning, Republican

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• During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

  Adam Garcia

  Inspirational, Dance, Laughter

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

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• We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

  Paul McCartney

  Wedding, Army, Bells

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• I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?

  Florence Welch

  Song, Father, Nice

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• Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Passive Voice, Use, Unnecessary

  "Sotomayoralities" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 15, 2009.

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• All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, People, United States

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

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• We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.

  Zakk Wylde

  Beer, Men, Rocks

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• Senator [Tom] Cotton and his fellow lawmakers are back in D.C. and Republicans are split, they are divided about what to do with the repeal to feel Affordable Care Act. That`s topic that Senator Cotton was really berated for at that town hall event that almost did not happen.

  Rachel Maddow

  Care, Cotton, Topics

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• As matters now stand, the veto seems inappropriate, given the absence of any deep ideological split between major states, and definitely constrains the war-prevention mission of the UN. Similarly, the present permanent five are out of touch with geopolitical realities, and constitute a remnant of a West-centric world order, casting a shadow of illegitimacy across the activities of the most important organ of global policymaking in the UN System.

  Richard A. Falk

  War, Reality, Order

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

  Jacob August Riis

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!

  Brad Pitt

  Fighting, Together Again, Stories

  "Brad Pitt Talks Jennifer Aniston and 'Trying to Pretend the Marriage Was Something That It Wasn't'" by Natalie Finn, www.eonline.com. September 15, 2011.

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• The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Heaven, Orthodoxy, Poet

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

  Al Pacino

  Mother, Dad, War

  "New Again: AL Pacino". Interview with Julian Schnabel and Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.

  Betty Smith

  Wisdom, Humility, Understanding

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• With movement, families get split. With the politicization of religion, spirituality gets diluted. With people intermarrying and falling in love outside of pre-existing defined groups, the tribe is disappearing. I'm not in favor of going back to those things, but you can't take those things away without putting something new in its place. So finding a way to make transience more acceptable, even beautiful is key.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Keys

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• It's a lesser-known story, but the Japanese government (after the Russian-Nazi pact, which split Poland) did allow Polish Jews to come to Japan, with the expectation that they would then be sent to the United States. But they weren't accepted, so they stayed in Japan.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Japan, Expectations

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.

  Mark Alan Stamaty

  Real, Eye, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The lovers enter into a story together - "this how we met, this is how we were meant for each other" - and then at some point (in my experience, at least), the story splits, and they no longer share it. Then, you either change the story, or you break up. I've always broken up.

  Melissa Febos

  Broken, Together, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• ... every time I got disappointed I'd remember the Roseannadanna philosophy that says that you shouldn't cry over split milk 'cause if you spill some milk and instead of cleaning it up you just walk over it and start crying, they're gonna put you on lithium.

  Gilda Radner

  Philosophy, Milk, Causes

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• It's really hard because you only have that split-second to determine what to do. It's crazy. I try my best to use clear judgment and make clear decisions, but a lot of those collisions are unavoidable. You're either going to let them catch it and take a step to see what's going on, or there's going to be a collision.

  Adrian Wilson

  Crazy, Player, Decision

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• I mean Filth is the best British film since Trainspotting. It might even be better. I keep watching it back to back with Trainspotting to try and work out which is the best. I can't split them.

  Irvine Welsh

  Mean, Work Out, Trainspotting

  Source: thequietus.com

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• People even split up by text message, they dump each other by text. Everything seems so disposable, so throwaway, but you have to engage with that if you're writing about the modern world. You've also got all these pop references that you feel obligated to make. They're just part of the bricolage of the whole thing, whether or not these are actually significant elements themselves.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, People, Elements

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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