Swagger Quotes - Page 3

• In fully accepting your creative power, you honor and respect your soul and remind others to do the same.

  Sonia Choquette

  Honor And Respect, Creative, Soul

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• I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark.

  Jane Mayer

  New York, Mean, Dark

  "Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2005.

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• My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

  Tim Robbins

  Baby, Father, Swag

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• A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

  Alan Perlis

  Swag

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• "Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed "artists"."

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Lying, Artist

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

  James A. Baldwin

  Real, Swag, Way

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• It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside.

  Emma Forrest

  Men, Cartoon, Muhammad

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.

  Graydon Carter

  Bullying, Ignorance, Rocks

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• I didn't appreciate Mick Jagger until I got older, and mainly because of the Mick Jagger swagger. He defined that for the world. He was bold and adventurous with it, too - just the ultimate rock star.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Stars, Rocks, Appreciate

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• Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kids, Parenting, Swag

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• I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.

  Adam Lambert

  Thinking, Rocks, Games

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• Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

  Thabo Mbeki

  Dark, Swag, Continents

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• It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The attempt looked so strange that Scipio started to mimic him behind his back. "What's the silly giggling about?" Barbarossa asked when Prosper and Renzo bust out laughing.

  Cornelia Funke

  Silly, Past, Laughing

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• Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger

  Stephenie Meyer

  Bully, Coward

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.429, Hachette UK

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• Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere revolt against the present social system, it is a cheap moral swagger. In former times it was used as fire insurance by the rich, but now that the fear of Hell has gone along with the rest of revealed religion, it is used either to gild mean lives with nobility or as a political instrument.

  Rebecca West

  Mean, Fire, Justice

  Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, New York : Viking Press

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• What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

  Joan Miro

  Thinking, Swag, Silence

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• I've played for the Miami Heat my whole career under Pat Riley. Mr. GQ himself. So when I pick out my outfits before a game, I'm already feeling confident. And some of that swagger stays with me when I take the court.

  Dwyane Wade

  Games, Careers, Feelings

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• My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

  Gene Tierney

  Swag, Hollywood, Departure

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

  Susan Sontag

  Change, Nature, Swag

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• Damn it's a shame you're the mighty queen of vials, With a wide-eyed look and a rotten-toothed smile. Used to walk with a swagger, now you simply stagger From one spot on, to the next spot on, to the next spot on, to the next.

  Sadat X

  Queens, Rap, Hip Hop

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• George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

  Christopher Lasch

  Swag, Names, Speech

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• The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

  Ken Follett

  Book, Swag, Research

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. December 15, 2000.

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• I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Swag, Said

  "Confessions". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, VIII, 1782.

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• It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Struggle, Reality, Swag

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• Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

  Ashley Montagu

  Swag, Cities, Pockets

  Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American way of LIfe”

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