Stealing Quotes - Page 11

• We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.

  David R. Brower

  Children, Parent, Earth

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• And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me. I'd go to fashion shows and call my publicist and say, 'Can I wear that?' I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better. And once I was told it was time to get one, I thought: This is one of my favorite hobbies! And I'm going to pay someone to steal my hobby from me? That's a terrible idea!

  Blake Lively

  Girl, Fashion, Thinking

  "Ooh La La, Blake Lively Talks to Florence Welch About Clothes, Men and More!". Interview with Florence Welch, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

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• I have the greatest affection for them but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Dog, Years, Tea

  Tapes from 1971 as presented in "All the Philosopher King's Men" by James Warren in "Harper's Magazine", February 2000.

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• I think it's sad that we live in a world where men can steal and distribute and publish photos of women without their permission all over the Internet and even in print and make a lot of money doing so, but half naked photos that I took of myself are deemed "obscene."

  Marie Calloway

  Men, Thinking, Naked

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Cheerful, Brightness, Purses

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• [On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'

  Stephen Fry

  Growing Up, Book, Dark

  "Room 101", (1994-).

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• I steal props from SNL a great deal. Almost every sketch Im in, I try to grab something from it, so I have a storage space full of props.

  Bobby Moynihan

  Storage Space, Trying, Snl

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• Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Motherhood, Stronger, Vulnerable

  Tess Gerritsen (2008). “The Keepsake: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

  Helen Caldicott

  Country, Lying, Power

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.236, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, or writing letters. I'd think of her as a thief, stealing the tail end of the day, the hours nobody else wanted or used.

  Marita Golden

  Mother, Reading, Writing

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• One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.

  Aesop

  Complaining, Ifs

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• The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.

  Gerald Massey

  Life, Heart, Magic

  Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.26

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• Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.

  Aaron Neville

  Car, Partners, Stealing Cars

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• The perfection of life with a gun dog, like the perfection of an Autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it begins, that it must end. Time bestows the gift and steals it in the process

  George Bird Evans

  Dog, Autumn, Gun

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• Others are my main concern. When I notice something of mine, I steal it and give it to others.

  Shantideva

  Buddhist, Giving, Concern

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• Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.

  Bryan Procter

  Dream, Winning, Ems

  Bryan Waller Procter (1820). “A Sicilian Story ; with Diego de Montilla and Other Poems”, p.135

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• An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.

  Auren Hoffman

  Home, Office, Entrepreneur

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• It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.

  Black Francis

  Obvious

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

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• So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

  Barry McGuire

  Italian, Should Have, Years

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• Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

  Horace

  Cutting, Men, Hands

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• It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to create. A lack of confidence in oneself is like a thief, It steals from the world that which might be worthy.

  Derek R. Audette

  Art, Creating, Thieves

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• Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of them many lawless deeds, stealing, adultery, and deception of each other.

  Xenophanes

  Men, Deception, Done

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• Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Reflection, Bears

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.281, Cambridge University Press

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• The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.

  George Herbert

  Sleeves, Geese

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.352

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• A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Reading, Pennsylvania, Lawyer

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