Used Quotes - Page 35

• The fact that we're spending $700 billion a year on oil is actually a good thing; it means we have the prosperity to do it. It means that oil's being used, and oil is the fuel for the engine of freedom.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Years, Oil

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• It's a little different being the older guys on the team. We are going to help get the young guys get comfortable. We'll have to get them used to what they will face out there this season. There are some good guys out there. They know what they have to do to win.

  Andrew Stevenson

  Team, Winning, Lsu

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• If you want Shaq to be Shaq, you've got to remember that Shaq is known for wreaking havoc offensively - 26,000-plus points without consistently making free throws. Don't have me doing something I'm not used to doing. I ain't used to being a pick-setter. Let me badda-bing, badda-bang.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Want, Bangs

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• I think it was 89.2% cheers and 11.8% boos, but I'm used to that.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Cheer, Thinking

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• Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it, and he had handed the revelation to Bishop Whitney, and he wrote it all off... She went to the fireplace and put it in, and put a candle under it and burnt it, and she thought that was the end of it, and she will be damned as sure as she is a living woman. Joseph used to say that he would have her hereafter, if he had to go to hell for her, and he will have to go to hell for her as sure as he ever gets her.

  Brigham Young

  Care, Bishops, Hell

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• At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places.

  Abraham H. Cannon

  Men, Law, Language

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• I'm just naturally gravitating towards different things. As you mature, different subject matters. And as you're older, you can't play as many parts, or you shouldn't be playing the parts that you used to play. But also there's the opportunity to play parts that you couldn't have.

  Clint Eastwood

  Opportunity, Play, Different

  "Letters From Iwo Jima - Clint Eastwood interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When I fell in love with hip-hop, my favorite rapper was Jay-Z. But I used to like Common and Nas. But I was a South dude. So I grew up on UGK, Triple Six, Outkast, and Pastor Troy. That's where I get my lingo, my slang, my passion.

  Cyhi the Prynce

  Passion, Rapper, Hip Hop

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you've held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.

  Big Sean

  Long, May, Stuff

  "Big Sean Talks Def Jam Debut, Detroit Roots, and Working With Kanye & Pharrell". Interview with Modele "Modi" Oyewole, www.complex.com. April 17, 2010.

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• Fantasy is seductive and much more wonderful than reality, but you can't take it to the bank. It's always an escape. And if used as an escape, as in attending a movie or a show for a circumscribed period of time, it's fine. When it starts to become undifferentiated from reality, it leads to big trouble.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, Seductive, Fantasy

  "Woody Allen by Moonlight". Interview with Uzoamaka Maduka, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.

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• Decision-making when things show up instead of when they blow up is actually a habit that can be developed and enhanced. The trick is to get used the clean feeling of having decided, instead of sitting on a fence.

  David Allen

  Blow, Decision, Feelings

  "'Getting Things Done' Guru David Allen on Organizing Your Life". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. March 25, 2009.

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• Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

  Michael Wilbon

  Baseball, Home, Simple

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon: NBA and NHL Finals, LeBron James, Redskins and more". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. June 1, 2010.

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• I get paid to play football, not to sit on the bench, I don't enjoy that. Over the years loads of players have been very happy to do that and pick up their money. That used to really wind me up.

  Kevin Kilbane

  Football, Player, Wind

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I was the darkest skinned person in my family. I remember how I used to feel - like I wasn't pretty enough, or I wasn't good enough.

  Rapsody

  Remember, My Family, Enough

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

  Douglas Brinkley

  College, Library, Bookstores

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encouraged by their devotion and also enriched by the ways in which they pray. Have I compromised in this way at all? No, to the contrary, I've gone deeper in my faith and I think my love for God has been deepened and made more intelligent in a sense, more rich by that very encounter.

  Miroslav Volf

  Prayer, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

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• It's horrible for someone to listen to someone learning any instrument - when I was first learning the banjo, I used to have to go out and sit in the car, and even in the summertime I'd have to roll up the windows. Because you just couldn't practice a banjo or a fiddle with other people around. Unless they're being paid.

  Steve Martin

  Practice, People, Car

  "Q&A: Steve Martin and Edie Brickell". Interview with Kyle Anderson, ew.com. April 26, 2013.

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• As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

  Angela Bassett

  Character, Actors, Research

  "Angela Bassett Talks American Horror Story: Freak Show, Filming in New Orleans, Her First Reaction to Finding Out Her Character, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 13, 2014.

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• The action stuff takes a long time but when you're there and you're doing it and you go into that take and you run and everything is blowing up around you and you're diving onto something it's actually incredibly thrilling and you feel like a kid again. Like a kid, who used to play and pretend all those things would happen and now they're actually happening.

  Stanley Tucci

  Running, Kids, Play

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• In A Brief History Of Time I used the word "God" like Einstein did as a shorthand for the laws of physics. However, this is not what most people mean by God, so I have decided not to use the term. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a God.

  Stephen Hawking

  Mean, Law, People

  "Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

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• There's a thing that just as you go to sleep, if you keep your elbows elevated that you will never go below the dream stage. And I've used that quite a lot and it keeps me dreaming much longer than if I just relaxed.

  David Bowie

  Dream, Sleep, Elbows

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.40, Melville House

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• My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together like one big huge family, people don't want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.

  David Bowie

  Media, People, Together

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.46, Melville House

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• I love the new technology in terms of giving access to doing more independent work. When I first started out, any film had to rent from Panavision and the expenses were humongous. Now, given the advances in technology, you can put out extraordinary quality filmmaking at nothing like the price it used to be.

  Kathleen Turner

  Independent, Technology, Giving

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade.

  Errol Morris

  Language, Ends, Diverse

  Source: collider.com

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• The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Kids, Bully, Scared

  "Zen and the art of Robert Pirsig". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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