Streaks Quotes

• I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

  Gregory Peck

  Ireland And The Irish, Stubborn

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• I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

  Betty Ford

  Independent, Kind, Knows

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• Every winning streak will have to end sometime.

  Jahangir

  Winning, Ends

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• When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• Everybody has a mean streak in them, don't they?

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mean

  Press conference, www.ign.com. September 14, 2004.

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• No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.

  Christy Mathewson

  Men, Yellow, Nerves

  Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.31, Penguin

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• The secret to keeping winning streaks going is to maximize the victories while at the same time minimizing the defeats.

  John Lowenstein

  Winning, Secret, Victory

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• Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

  Edward Abbey

  Clouds, Air, Weather

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.107, University of Arizona Press

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• Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

  Nate Silver

  Hot, Too Much, Way

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• I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

  John Green

  Friendship, People, Needs

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.44, Penguin

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• In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote "teamwork." For its anti-individualistic streak, such a drive is of course highly suspect; some people may not be so sensitive to it, but having seen the Hitlerjugend in action suffices for the rest of your life to be very wary of "team spirit." Very.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Teamwork, People, May

  "The strengths of the academic enterprise" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. February 9, 1994.

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• The whole east was flecked With flashing streaks and shafts of amethyst, While a light crimson mist Went up before the mounting luminary, And all the strips of cloud began to vary Their hues, and all the zenith seemed to ope As if to show a cope beyond the cope!

  Epes Sargent

  Clouds, Light, Sunrise

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• I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Writing, Humility, Artist

  "A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1971.

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• I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Taken, Gambling, Losing

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• I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

  George Best

  Sometimes, Born, Great Gifts

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• I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

  Joe Lhota

  Government, Born, Persons

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• My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Father, Military, Party

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• I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.

  Gail Collins

  Giving, Criminals, Littles

  "And the G.O.P. Candidates Are…". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 10, 2011.

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• To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

  Lena Olin

  Smart, Actors, Idiot

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• Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

  Eddie Slovik

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Luck, Things Happen

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• I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling.

  Stephen Shore

  Creative, Hot, Pot

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• Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

  Walter Alston

  Thinking, Fans, Doe

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• Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me.

  Robin Williams

  Summer, Stars, Eye

  "Fictional character: Jack Powell". "Jack", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking

  Gene Mauch

  Motivational, Baseball, Slumps

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• It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.

  Katherine Dunn

  Dog, Fashion, Real

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.384, Vintage

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