Summer Quotes - Page 16

• Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

  James Huneker

  Food, July, Life Sucks

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• I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

  LL Cool J

  Home, Eight, Trying

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• In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

  Ben Jonson

  Life, June, Perfect

  'To the Immortal Memory...of...Sir Lucius Carey and Sir H. Morison' (1640)

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• The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.

  Bill Kurtis

  Years, Ice, Sea

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• There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Doubt

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• Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.

  Ang Lee

  Character, Design, Different

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• I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morris College in Atlanta, Georgia.

  Spike Lee

  Dream, College, Atlanta

  "Spike Lee Talks OLDBOY, Why He Considers the Film a Reinterpretation, Performances of Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen & His Confidence in Audience Turnout". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2013.

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• Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it's about to pay off. I guess we'll just have to wait and see this summer.

  Ryan Lochte

  Hard Work, Waiting, Pay

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• When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can't draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I'm working. I draw according to the place.

  Christian Louboutin

  Winter, Light, Drawing

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• I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

  George Lucas

  School, College, Thinking

  "the force". Interview With Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. June 29, 2010.

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• Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Spring, Wyoming, June

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• Growing up in Alaska, they don't really teach you to swim there. I learned to swim just a few summers ago with Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard. She did great, and right after that I went to get scuba certified. I had fun with it. I didn't really get scared, but some people thought that was a risk.

  Holly Madison

  Growing Up, Fun, Alaska

  "Interview: Oregon's own reality star Holly Madison talks about 'Dancing'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. March 20, 2009.

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• During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.

  Michelle Malkin

  Flames, Obamacare, Innovation

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• For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.

  Demetri Martin

  Home, School, Law

  "Demetri Martin On 'Taking Woodstock'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 15, 2009.

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• Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sports, Baseball, Believe

  Interview with Adam Duerson, www.si.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.

  Danica McKellar

  Years, Age, Wonder

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• I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

  Christopher Meloni

  Focus, Stronger, Blockbuster

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• That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.

  Angela Merkel

  Team, Thinking, Finals

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

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• I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, People, Upset

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• America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.

  Dennis Miller

  Country, School, America

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

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• I have a very basic leg. But it has a silicon cover on it. I have a flat foot leg, a high heel leg and then I have a leg which, in the winter, I have to ski in and in the summer I swap it into my roller blades.

  Heather Mills

  Winter, High Heels, Feet

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 20, 2007.

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• This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven't known myself so relaxed in years.

  Kylie Minogue

  Holiday, Years, Special

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• My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.

  David Mixner

  Garden, Ice Cream, Air

  "Turkey Hollow Almanac: Summer Memories" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2008.

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• Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Children, Father, Commitment

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• People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.

  Michael Moore

  Queens, College, People

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