Throwing Quotes - Page 24

• I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.

  Alec Baldwin

  Football, Mean, Men

  "Alec Baldwin: the Dark Knight" by Lisa Depaulo, www.elle.com. November 17, 2009.

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• Thinking back about throwing myself at certain gentlemen that had no interest in me, that'll bring a blush to my face if I think about it too often.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Thinking, Gentleman, Faces

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• For me, getting older doesnt mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, its about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesnt suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits.

  Twiggy

  Nice, Mean, Years

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• I do find, coming form the stage and all that, I've always been conscious of my posture and my body, but also the style aspect, I do find myself throwing on a blazer and a nice pair of loafers more often. Daddy always likes a new pair of Guccis.

  Bryan Batt

  Nice, Daddy, Style

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• To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.

  Constant Lambert

  Taken, Bombs, Melancholy

  "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert , "The Revolutionary Situation", p. 32, 1934.

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• Nothing gets you to mend your heart quicker than throwing yourself into work.

  Cat Deeley

  Heart

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• There's a subtleness to camera work. You can really create intimate moments on camera and sometimes that requires a little more precision from an actor, because you have to pull people in as opposed to throwing it to them.

  Corey Reynolds

  Intimate Moments, People, Cameras

  "TV Gig Pulls Corey Reynolds Away from Broadway". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. June 9, 2006.

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• And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Baby, Humor

  "The 700 Club" with Pat Robertson, September 13, 2001.

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• I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Stoves

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• How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Void, Infinite, Oneself

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door,
  going sixty-five miles an hour.

  Izzy Stradlin

  Doors, Hours, Throwing Up

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• I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Father, Years, Political

  "The Next Crusade" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. April 9, 2007.

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• Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

  Al Gore

  Democracy, Vote, Never Forget

  2004 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 26 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• God, I feel like hell tonight. Tears of rage I cannot fight. I'd be the last to help you understand... Nothing's true and nothing's right so let me be alone tonight 'cause you can't change the way I am... I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go. It's try and love me if you can. Are you strong enough to be my man? When I've shown you that I just don't care, when I'm throwing punches in the air, when I'm broken down and I can't stand will you be man enough to be my man?

  Sheryl Crow

  Strong, Fighting, Men

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• The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.

  Arthur Jensen

  Individual Differences, Groups, Fever

  Arthur Robert Jensen (1980). “Bias in Mental Testing”

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• ... combinatorics, a sort of glorified dice-throwing.

  Robert Kanigel

  Dice, Mathematics

  Robert Kanigel (2016). “The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn't have gone on with it.

  Mick Jagger

  Real, People, Fool

  "Jagger Remembers: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.mickjagger.com. December 14, 1995.

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• The good show is not about people fighting or getting drunk or throwing up on each other, or hating each other - it's about celebrating people's talent.

  Cat Deeley

  Hate, Fighting, People

  "Tim Gunn and Cat Deeley on Good Hosts, Bad Reality Shows and Unfair Judges". Interview with Debra Birnbaum, variety.com. August 5, 2014.

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• The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence, and the other is disorder or chaos. The popular conception of anarchism is on the one hand bomb-throwing and terrorism, and on the other hand no rules, no regulations, no discipline, everybody does what they want, confusion, etc. That is why there is a reluctance to use the term anarchism.

  Howard Zinn

  Real, Hands, Two

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• I was sorry to see the News of the World go down, I think it was a great campaigning newspaper. Who can forget the News of the World's high profile campaign against child sex offenders which led to News of the World readers burning down the home of a paediatrician, throwing rocks at a pedalo, stamping on a centipede.

  Stewart Lee

  Sex, Children, Sorry

  "Carpet Remnant World". Comedy, 2012.

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• Refrain from throwing your bicycle in public. It shows poor upbringing

  Jacquie Phelan

  Riding A Bicycle, Poor, Refrain

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• I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.

  Phil Niekro

  Splits, Curveballs, Fingers

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• You can't drink too many otherwise you can't see what you're throwing at.

  Eric Bristow

  Drink

  "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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• The campaign for the White House is heating up with John Kerry taking heat for throwing his Vietnam medals away, getting a $1000 haircut, and wearing a 1970s wig known as 'the Leno.' There are really two sides to this story. And America can't wait for Kerry to present both of them.

  David Letterman

  Two Sides, White, America

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• Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.

  Jojo Moyes

  Mother, Father, Rocks

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