Stuff Quotes - Page 39

• My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Dad, School, Parent

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• As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.

  Alberto Manguel

  Revenge, Lying, Heart

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• It's not what the price of gold is that matters, but rather how much stuff it will buy.

  Michael Maloney

  Gold, Matter

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• Usually the hard stuff you’re forced to do makes you learn a lot.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Hard

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• Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

  Criss Jami

  Sports, Competition, Humans

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.2, Criss Jami

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• I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That’s one of my favorite lines of all time. It’s from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry.

  Valerie Thomas

  Mean, Rainy Day, Men

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• The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a sock, they do not try 'to imitate the texture of the stuff'. Their art makes no attempt at concealment: it even takes a certain pride in revealing itself.

  Daniele Vare

  Art, Pride, Chinese

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• After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Ambition, Years

  Diary entry on August 01, 1945. "Prelude to Leadership". Book by John F. Kennedy, 1995.

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• Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Centaurs, Half

  "History as a System". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1962.

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• Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like.

  Sylvia Plath

  Cheerful, Want, World

  Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Schober Plath (1975). “Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.

  Donal Logue

  Character, Stuff I Like, Years

  "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.

  Francis Collins

  Prayer, Opportunity, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there.

  Ryan Tedder

  Thinking, Trying, Mirroring

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I have learned that the stuff that causes me anxiety, the stuff I instinctively veer away from, is usually a road map to where my own creative growth can be found. So I consciously head toward the places that make me uncomfortable.

  Merrill Markoe

  Anxiety, Creative, Growth

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I would do nightclubs and concerts - particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did - and only people who already agreed with me would show up. People weren't going to come and inadvertently turn on their television set and find this offensive stuff coming out.

  Tom Lehrer

  People, Television, Offensive

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• I was thinking about hitting races and stuff, but it's just, I think it's more of the era of when I was a kid and it just brings back memories. I gotta just chill and live in the past.

  Matt Skiba

  Memories, Kids, Past

  "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.

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• A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't blame them, because they're still doing adult dramas and adult comedies on those stations.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Drama, People, Adults

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.

  Ricky Gervais

  Art, Different, Tvs

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• When I left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor in a laboratory, just crafting stuff and adding this, and putting this on and moving the microphone, and it was very homemade.

  Paul McCartney

  Moving, Albums, Kind

  "Sir Paul McCartney". Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. May 21, 2007.

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• There are some quite funny things about getting famous and stuff, but I think there comes a point where you have to think to yourself, "Well, am I doing this because I want to go to a party and meet Britney Spears? Or am I doing it because I want to create something that excites me?"

  Jarvis Cocker

  Party, Thinking, Funny Things

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• I like to give stuff away for free and play shows for cheap and not rely on music as a job.

  Girl Talk

  Jobs, Play, Giving

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that is. I just can't. Reading or auditioning for something... It's like it's this mental block in my brain, and I just can't do it. But when people ask you to do stuff without making you go through that, it's a much more pleasant experience.

  Michael Madsen

  Block, Reading, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.

  Paul Weller

  Instruments, Eastern, Whole

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2008.

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• Some things, I feel like no, I never could have the depth of experience of their own music and culture - but sometimes if I'm collaborating with somebody, they're interested in me bringing my own stuff into their thing, and sometimes that works.

  David Byrne

  Depth, Culture, Sometimes

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

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• I'd been keeping tour diaries, and especially when I go somewhere where I felt the experience might be interesting, like Eastern Europe or South America or whatever, where the whole perception of what I was doing there and stuff that I was seeing and music I was hearing, I could put all that into a diary.

  David Byrne

  America, Europe, Interesting

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

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