Stuff Quotes - Page 9

• When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines...I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them. And that's not funny....OK, well, if I say that, I might get a shock laugh, but it's not really satire.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Real, Writing

  Sydney Morning Herald interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Past, Healthy, Able

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• I've got quite a curvy shape so I try to wear stuff that's tailored.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Trying, Shapes, Curvy

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• I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.

  James Ellroy

  Criminals, Underworld, Knows

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• People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Long, People, Kind

  "Lisa Marie Presley on turning her back on Hollywood, living with her father's fame" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2012.

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• My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

  Blythe Danner

  Digging, Theory, Deeper

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• Taylor Swift is very strategic with her friends and enemies. And I know lots of secrets. I can't divulge, but I know a lot of stuff about her. And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

  Diplo

  Secret, Enemy, Scared

  "Diplo Says He Knows Taylor Swift’s ‘Secrets’ And He’s ‘Scared For His Life’" By Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2015.

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• I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

  Lee Daniels

  Running, Soul, Hollywood

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• I wasn't surprised at all. In fact, I thought, why stop there? Why not add the Big Show, or Chris Jericho, or the whole state of Nebraska for that matter? And don't you think a wrestling ring is a little old school, Lilian? Why not put the match in a shark tank, with real live sharks? Hungry sharks! And the only way to beat your opponent is to stuff him down a shark's throat, and pin the shark. Wouldn't that be a hoot?

  Kurt Angle

  Real, School, Wrestling

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• My dad was an alcoholic and my mother...we didn't have any money and I grew up really poor. I watched them spend all of their money on cartons of cigarettes and stuff like that and I didn't understand how if we were broke and we couldn't afford Christmas presents, why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It's not like they are making you better...they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.

  CM Punk

  Mother, Dad, Real

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• 'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by - Tweedledee, I think it was.' 'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that - ' 'Oh, it needn't come to that!' Alice hastily said, hoping to keep him from beginning.

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Thinking, Hands

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6

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• Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle.

  Graham Joyce

  Swimming, Winning, Awards

  "Graham Joyce wins fantasy award and makes sports book award longlist" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• Sometimes you successful folks can rise up so high reaching for more stuff that you miss knowing God. But you can never stoop low to help somebody and have God miss knowing you

  Denver Moore

  Successful, Knowing, Missing

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• There's plenty of rude stuff online. People say things online that they would be ashamed to say face to face. If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge.

  Jimmy Wales

  People, Rude, Faces

  "The Encyclopedist's Lair". The New York Times, November 19, 2007.

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• The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

  Robert Plant

  Rocks, Once Upon A Time, Special

  "A little bit country, a little bit rock'n'roll" by Sylvie Simmons, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2008.

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• I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Fans, Singers, Killers

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• I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.

  J. Cole

  Successful, Rapper, World

  "Hot Topic: J. Cole" by Katie Amey, www.elle.com. June 17, 2013.

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• People don't really give me much anymore, and for good reason. I have to pay for a lot of stuff now, I can afford a lot more than I ever could before. No one really gives me anything anymore, but it feels good.

  Mac Miller

  People, Giving, Feel Good

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• I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

  Eazy-E

  Kids, Years, Car

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• Becoming a vegan gave me another opportunity to live a healthy life. I was so congested from all the drugs and bad cocaine, I could hardly breathe, [I had] high blood pressure, [was] almost dying [and had] arthritis. And once I became a vegan all that stuff diminished.

  Mike Tyson

  Opportunity, Blood, Drug

  "Beyonce And Jay Z Spotted At Vegan Restaurant Cafe Gratitude On His Birthday". “Oprah: Where Are They now?”, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.

  Christopher Alexander

  Dream, Mean, Reality

  "To be a good builder, you need a feel for what surrounds you. Christopher Alexander knows." by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2006.

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• The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Divorce, Car

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, film.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• I probably could be a world-class screenwriter by now if I had spent the kind of work I devote on Comedy Death-Ray to that. But I do okay, in that regard. I mean, my stuff gets bought, so it's all right.

  Scott Aukerman

  Mean, Class, Rays

  "Scott Aukerman of Comedy Death-Ray". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2010.

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• Just don't hold back. Don't be afraid to make mistakes and stuff.

  Kristen Stewart

  Mistake, Making Mistakes

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