Stuff Quotes - Page 26

• All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks - We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because we don’t have the Koch brothers. It takes a different kind of capital to fight that stuff.

  DJ Spooky

  Brother, Fighting, Different

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• When I'm in a restaurant, I don't eat red meat. It doesn't taste like anything. But if a friend of mine is grilling stuff at his house, its almost always great.

  Steve Albini

  House, Meat, Red

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• There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as remarkable and rare, when we need to exhibit ourself in front of a mirror that reflects our self-admiration, when we need a parent to function as that mirror.

  Judith Viorst

  Mirrors, Self, Parent

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.

  Margaret Cho

  Fashion, Consuming, I Can

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• I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

  Edward Abbey

  Real, Blood, Sweat

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.39, Big Earth Publishing

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• Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.

  Laini Taylor

  Dream, Powerful, Drinking

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• Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?

  Eddie Van Halen

  Hurt, Crazy, Believe

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• I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.

  Steven Moffat

  Looks, Internet, Online

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• Well, the first and only time I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again. But I know a lot about guns, so I go to the gun range and stuff like that with friends sometimes.

  Channing Tatum

  Gun, Hunting, Deer

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• I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage.

  Art Buchwald

  Writing, Fighting, Wife

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• I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too.

  John Lennon

  Kids, America, Done

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• I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.

  Bob Uecker

  Careers, Laughing, Ignorant

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• Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

  Stendhal

  Doe, Deeds, Action

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• Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Ignorance, Too Much

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• I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.

  Martina Navratilova

  Children, Animal, Rights

  "Martina Navratilova On Staying Fit, Coming Out, Battling Cancer And Transcending Sports". Interview With Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.

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• We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Angel

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• Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Character, Artist, Men

  Hilaire Belloc (1940). “Characters of the Reformation”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.

  Amanda Bynes

  People, Laughing, Trying

  "Fashion, food and fun are dear to Amanda Bynes". Interview with Tali Yahalom, usatoday30.usatoday.com. August 22, 2007.

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• You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Jobs, Labels, Stylist

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• I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

  Alison Bechdel

  Kids, Superhero

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• Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

  Alison Bechdel

  Mad, Magazines, Littles

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• I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

  David Chase

  Writing, Choices, Important

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• When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

  Josh Groban

  Jobs, Couple, Silly

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• Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.

  George Brett

  Baseball, Numbers, Talking

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• When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Home, Guitar, Practice

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