Wall Quotes - Page 10

• If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

  Don Dokken

  Gold, Ceilings, Looks

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• Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.

  Howard Dean

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "Newt Gingrich, Howard Dean Talk Race, Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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• I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all.

  Jerry Doyle

  Growing Up, Flying, Succeed

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• I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.

  Katie Finneran

  People, Cameras, Tape

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• San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell.

  Johnny Cash

  Fall, Order, Law

  Song: San Quentin

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• The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

  David Foster Wallace

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

  Don Henley

  Bangs, Apathy, Politics

  Song: Inside Job, Album: Inside Job, 2000

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• The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side.

  Bob Dylan

  Pride, Sides, Adages

  Song: Cold Irons Bound, 1997

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• The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

  Elvis Presley

  Advice, Littles, Sound

  Song: The Walls Have Ears, Album: Girls! Girls! Girls!

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• At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Art, Bricks, Moments

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• They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.

  Paul Simon

  Strong, Philosophy, Long

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• When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

  Merle Haggard

  Summer, Winter, Air

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• I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.

  Tab Hunter

  Water, Off The Wall

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• I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

  Diane Keaton

  Knows, Traits, Hard

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

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• And just about the time I feel like screaming and finding me a wall to punch right through, I look up and I just can't help smiling, it's you.

  Bob Seger

  Honesty, Looks, Helping

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• I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Issues, Parent, Hot

  Interview with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.

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• I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Fall, Reality, Law

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• Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

  James Laughlin

  Beautiful, Book, Ideas

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• I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

  J.K. Simmons

  Grateful, Listening, My Sister

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

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• My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, "The Russians are Coming". So we screened Red Dawn and Top Gun.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Gun, Doors, My Boyfriend

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

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• An imposing wall prominently divides the visions of President Obama and congressional Republicans when it comes to economic growth and creating jobs. Solyndra is on one side and the Keystone pipeline is on the other.

  Fred Upton

  Jobs, Creating, Growth

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• Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Expression

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• The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the air and keeps going - liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fire, Air, Hinduism

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• The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world.

  Angela Merkel

  War, Opportunity, Order

  "German Chancellor Merkel addresses Congress". www.cnn.com. November 3, 2009.

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• I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Running, Flip, Impressive

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