Tricks Quotes - Page 37

• Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

  Sam Kinison

  Mad, Justified, Rage

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• Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.

  Veronica Roth

  Grief, Play, Persons

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• A good trick as you get older is to get a thick pair of glasses that have a dark frame. Everything else can droop and slide but that pair of dark glasses stays sharp and crisp. Look at Cary Grant. Look at Vidal Sassoon.

  Tom Ford

  Dark, Glasses, Looks

  "Tom Ford: What I've Learned" by Johnny Davis, www.esquire.com. August 27, 2014.

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• Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still in this bag together. Not to fight to try to liberate ourselves from the men - this is another trick to get us fighting among ourselves - but to work together with the black man, then we will have a better chance to just act as human beings, and to be treated as human beings in our sick society.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Fighting, Men, Sick

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• I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam with a trick knee! I was an author of the homeland security bill, for goodness' sake! But I wasn't a rubber stamp for the White House. That right there is the epitome of what's wrong with American politics today!

  Max Cleland

  Running, Years, White

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• GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to GOD's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Book, Heart, Eye

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• There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

  Marian Seldes

  Teaching, Acting, Want

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• It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real and how all the tricks are done. The fact is you're still just another slack-jawed mark in the audience. No matter how good you are, this world is always going to be better at this game. It's more cunning than you are, it's faster and it's a whole lot more ruthless. All you can do is try to keep up, know your weak spots and never stop expecting the sucker punch.

  Tana French

  Real, Smart, Believe

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• Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

  Storm Jameson

  Regret, Past, Long

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• You will not be stuck forever. The trick is to know there are no tricks. There is, in fact, no easy way. There is only the work.

  Blaine Hogan

  Forever, Way, Facts

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• Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

  Melody Beattie

  Play, Worry, Illusion

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself”, p.58, Hazelden Publishing

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• Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion. Practice goodheartedness toward all beings. Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others do to you. What they do will not matter so much when you see it as a dream. The trick is to have positive intention during the dream. This is the essential point. This is true spirituality.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Dream, Attachment, Practice

  "Life in Relation to Death". Second Edition,

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• Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so. And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.

  George Orwell

  Fear, Mean, Thinking

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• The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Lord, Vistas

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• Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.

  Derren Brown

  Magic, Dull, Should

  "On Deception". Book by Harry Houdini, foreword, 2009.

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• To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic.

  Criss Angel

  Emotional, People, Magic

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• The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Caring, Thinking, People

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• I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a trick. I close my eyes sometimes.

  Shaun White

  Eye, Doe, Body

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• I can't really describe a trick as much as I just feel it.

  Shaun White

  Feels, I Can

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• Trick names are so ridiculous!

  Shaun White

  Names, Ridiculous

  Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2009.

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• There're two different kinds of skating. There's the style skating, and there's the trick skating. He (Tony Hawk) does the trick skating so heavy duty, that he can overcome the style skating. There's always the chance that the style skater can come back, but the whole deal really is learning tricks.

  Christian Hosoi

  Two, Style, Hawks

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• If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.

  Jez Butterworth

  Writing, Character, People

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• The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.

  Robert Breault

  Hate, Self, Too Much

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• The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

  Robert Breault

  Success, Giving, Effort

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• I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

  Jane Siberry

  Mind, Young, Feels

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