Statues Quotes - Page 17

• Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.

  Rita Hayworth

  Directors, Hollywood, Needs

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

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• Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would just come up and say 'hello' before asking for an autograph. I wish they would just say, 'Hello, I'm so and so, and I just want to shake your hand.' I'm impressed when I find people like that. Most people just say, 'Sign here,' and treat you like a statue.

  Eddy Arnold

  Song, Hands, People

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• When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way.

  Fred Armisen

  Art, Thinking, Cities

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. January 11, 2006.

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• I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.

  Andy Cohen

  Running, Past, Thinking

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• It's nothing but a big stroke job in this country. The government strokes you every day of your life. Religion never stops stroking you. Big business gives you a good stroke. And it's one big, transcontinental, cross-country, red, white and blue stroke job... Do you know what the national emblem for this country ought to be? Forget that bald eagle. The national emblem of this country ought to be Uncle Sam standing naked at attention saluting, and seated on a chair next to him, the Statue of Liberty jerking him off. That would be a good symbol for the United Strokes of America.

  George Carlin

  Country, Uncles, Jobs

  "George Carlin... It's Bad for Ya!", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The Pagan model of religion because, in the Pagan model, there were lots and lots of Gods and Goddesses. They were all incredibly beautiful and there were statues of them everywhere, which is the equivalent of magazines, or whatever, today. And they were fallible, which is different from being mono-, you know, Jewish or Islam (where) you have the infallible, monotheistic God.

  Rachel Weisz

  Beautiful, Islam, Today

  Source: collider.com

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• As a devastating series of attacks rock America's oldest ally, the nation that stood by us after 9/11 that gifted us the Statue of Liberty. France on November 13, 2015 fell victims to the worst terror attack in its history.

  Peter King

  Rocks, Terror Attacks, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The Statue of Liberty really is profound, I just wish she'd lighten up a bit.

  Dov Davidoff

  Profound, Wish, Liberty

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• Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Men, Melting

  Terry Pratchett (2013). “Jingo: Stage Adaptation”, p.108, A&C Black

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• Why would anyone even bring up the issue (of the statues) in a country where there are more than 10 state-owned institutions that teach sculpting and more than 20 others that teach the history of art?

  Gamal El-Ghitani

  Country, Art, Issues

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• Waiting for clarity is like being a sculptor staring at a piece of marble, waiting for the statue within to cast off the unneeded pieces. Do not wait for clarity to spontaneously materialize-gra b a chisel and get busy!

  Steve Pavlina

  Waiting, Pieces, Clarity

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• The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

  Gutzon Borglum

  Memorial, Expansion, United States

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• Breaking News: Winds so strong in NYC The Statue of Liberty's gown just blew off!

  Kevin Nealon

  Strong, Nyc, Wind

  Twitter post from Oct 29, 2012

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• No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.

  Seth Godin

  Hands, People, Bird

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• It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga… It’s just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Yoga, Inward, Frozen

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• A Montana statue holds that a river has a right to overwhelm its banks and inundate its floodplain. Well, that's interesting, because it's not a right that we assign to the river. The river has earned it through centuries of deluging and shaping the floodplain, and the floodplain has a right to its rampaging river. They've earned their rights through a kind of reciprocal action.

  Daniel Kemmis

  Rights, Rivers, Interesting

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• There are no statues erected to critics.

  Tim Ferriss

  Critics

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• Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the crush of people that made the West Village of Manhattan unique in the world. In a single block you could buy fertility statues from Tanzania, rare Amazonian orchids, a pawned brass tuba, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, or the best, most expensive cup of coffee you ever tasted. It was the doughnuts, incidentally, that attracted Gaia.

  Francine Pascal

  Crush, Block, Coffee

  Francine Pascal (2001). “Sam”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I WANT to be a saint. I want to save souls by the millions. I want to do good far and wide. I want to fight evil! I want my life-sized statue in every church. I'm talking six feet tall, blond hair, blue eyes-.Wait a second.Do you know who I am?

  Anne Rice

  Eye, Fighting, Feet

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.4711, Ballantine Books

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• Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

  Roger Stone

  Committees, Built

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• Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

  Euripides

  Mind, Body

  Electra 386

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• Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.

  Tom McCall

  Hero, Responsibility, Sky

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• America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.

  Simon Hoggart

  Hero, Blue, Whales

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• Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.

  Plotinus

  Cutting, Light, Perfect

  Plotinus (1952). “The Six Enneads”, p.47, Hayes Barton Press

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• But have you wine and music still,And statues and a bright-eyed love,And foolish thoughts of good and ill,And prayers to them who sit above?

  James Elroy Flecker

  Prayer, Wine, Foolish

  James Elroy Flecker (1947). “Selected Poems”

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