Throwing Quotes - Page 19

• Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Spiritual, Needs, Cost

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• I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on the emotions in a kind of intimate story.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Thinking, Ideas, Cameras

  "Legendary Oscar-Winner Bernardo Bertolucci’s Career Celebrated at MoMA". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2011.

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• Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.

  Hermann Goring

  Party, Class, Goering

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

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• I like throwing snowballs at small children.

  Sam Mendes

  Children, Snowball, Small Child

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• In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

  Elisabetta Canalis

  Relationship, Past, Self

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• You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Real, Hero, Party

  “Elizabeth Banks Is on Our Team” by David Walters, www.esquire.com. July 7, 2008.

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• Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.

  Wes Borland

  Loving What You Do, Knives, Records

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• I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

  Robert Caro

  Writing, Long, Afternoon

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• I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?

  James Badge Dale

  Hockey, Fate, Thinking

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• I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

  Britt Ekland

  Beautiful, Children, Cities

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• We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're my weaker events - they don't come as naturally to me as running and jumping. I like the hurdles and the high-jump, I'm a springy, speedy athlete so those suit me.

  Jessica Ennis

  Running, Athlete, Jumping

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

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• I've been looking at people and how they change with the times, and lately all I've been seeing are people throwing love away and losing their minds.

  Michael Martin Murphey

  Reality, People, Mind

  Song: What's Forever For

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• Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.

  Doug Flutie

  Football, Attitude, College

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• I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

  Taylor Kitsch

  Play, Guy, Risk

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• Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".

  William C. Brown

  Children, Errors, Names

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• It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.

  Missi Pyle

  Fun, Night, Land

  "Missi Pyle on Her Role in the Off-Broadway Rock Musical 'Bare'". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. January 4, 2013.

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• Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

  Bob Packwood

  Genius, Republican, Advantage

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• 'Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.

  Hal Sparks

  Christian, Redneck, Lions

  "Comedian Hal Sparks on love and pot" by Jarrett Bellini, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2011.

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• Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance.

  Pat Conroy

  Beautiful, Girl, Sweet

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.1177, Open Road Media

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• Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

  Mark Udall

  Progress, Bombs, Genuine

  "Same-sex marriage debate: A model for other issues" by Mark Udall, www.politico.com.

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• In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.

  Lee Westwood

  Golf, Years, Next

  "Leaner and meaner" by Bill Elliott, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.

  Michael Weatherly

  Girl, Team, School

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• Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.

  Mike Weir

  Writing, Tennis, Balls

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• I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

  Taylor Lautner

  Sports, Football, Shooting

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