Used Quotes - Page 39

• I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Doctors, Sick

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• Bill Clinton was doing Ku Klux Klan grand kleagel jokes at Byrd's funeral, saying, Oh, Robert C. Byrd, he used the - he was the grand kleagel. He just did what he had to do.

  Sean Hannity

  Ku Klux Klan, Funeral, Bills

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I was used to being disliked as a kid. Not that I didn't deserve it: I was a pretty sad and unappealing creature, and still am, I guess. It's sort of simplistic to think that one tries to make stuff that accounts for one's repulsiveness as a person, but there's some truth to it. So, when I read something unfavorable, I always take it deeply personally. It's as if my efforts have been in vain, and I should just quit.

  Chris Ware

  Kids, Thinking, Effort

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.

  Cee Lo Green

  Believe, Hip Hop, Way

  "CeeLo and Goodie Mob on Their Comeback, Kanye West's 'Emotional Problems,' More". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. August 13, 2013.

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• Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we don't pay ransom. We turn it over to the FBI. They catch the person. And then, of course, we used to have the death penalty for it. Now it's life in prison. In Mexico, everybody pays. It's a business.

  Rudy Giuliani

  United States, Mexico, Ransom

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I always thought that television was the way to go in my goal to invade pop culture because it got to towns in which there were no bookstores. That's how I used to think of it: How do I reach kids who not only don't read but probably have no access to much in the way of books?

  Matt Groening

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  "Matt Groening looks to the future". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2009.

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• I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of pop culture - has grown so used to an emasculated, bare-chested leading man that something like simply growing a mustache can impress people.

  Nick Offerman

  Men, Thinking, Civilization

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Virtue, Eternal Vigilance

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• This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Insane, Asylums, Planets

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• What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Father, Reading, Evening

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.48, Jaico Publishing House

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• And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

  Alan Watts

  Hands, Ignorant, Beats

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• Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.

  Barney Frank

  Senior, Country, Light

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• ...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Guarantees, Maintaining

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.189, Routledge

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• Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout history, the claim that God is on your side has been used to justify any action, no matter how violent or destructive.

  Charles Kimball

  Thinking, Your Side, Matter

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• Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

  George Orwell

  Speech, Use, Metaphor

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.

  Clemence Poesy

  School, Night, Mirrors

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• I used to be a virgin, but I gave it up because there was no money in it.

  Marsha Warfield

  No Money, Virgins, Used To Be

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• Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.

  James D. Watson

  Ignorance, Views, Damage

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• I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Bass, Concerts

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• I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.

  Seamus Dever

  Commitment, Theatre, Single Man

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In college, my friend Melanie and I used to have weekly Jimmy Stewart viewings, and 'Harvey' seemed to make its way into the rotation an inordinate amount of times.

  Rich Sommer

  College, Rotation, Way

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• As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

  Michael Angarano

  Kids, Different, Kind

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• I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

  Boyd Holbrook

  House, Building, Architect

  "Boyd Holbrook On Film". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 30, 2014.

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• A lot of people have used the frog splash over the years. Every one else that used it is a four star frog splash, when RVD did it, it became a five star frog splash.

  CM Punk

  Stars, Years, People

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• It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.

  John Boyega

  Other Cultures, Long, People

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

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