Weekend Quotes - Page 29

• I like working all the time. I hate taking breaks. I don't like the weekends.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Hate, Taking A Break, Working All The Time

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• We first became conscious of the plane publicly on a Monday. I thought then by the weekend it would be done. But then the Chinese military, the defense minister made a statement saying that if there was no apology from the United States, the Chinese military and the Chinese people would never understand. No reference to the government or the Communist Party, and that obviously presented an internal problem to the Chinese leadership, which was travelling at that moment.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Monday, Military, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."

  Kevin Costner

  Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, Want

  "Why Kevin Costner Paid for ‘Black or White’ (New Trailer, Sneak Preview Q & A)". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 3, 2014.

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• In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.

  Les Brown

  Uplifting, Mean, Opportunity

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• I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you have to give people a reason to click through. Blogs need to be real and personal. Reading it should be like hanging out with you. I play music for my readers. I show them videos I like. I tell them what I did over the weekend. And I tell them what is happening in the technology, Internet, and VC markets.

  Fred Wilson

  Success, Business, Real

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• Packing is basically: If you're going on a weekend, then just take what you're really going to wear. And how many times are you going to leave the room? If that makes any sense. Like if you're going to sleep, read, and sit by a fire - chunky knit sweaters, leggings, comfortable boots. But if you're going on like a party weekend, then bring your favorite pieces and make sure you'll wear them.

  Rachel Zoe

  Party, Sleep, Sweaters

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.

  Mario Batali

  Growing Up, Simple, Cooking

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January, 2004.

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• [Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say.

  Jodi Picoult

  Talking, Lunch, Twelve

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• People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want to enjoy themselves and live life to the full. They work all week, pick their wages up at the end of the week and they spend it over a weekend by having a good time and watching the football. That's our life.

  Alan Shearer

  Football, Live Life, Class

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• We got anxious at the end of the weekend in our urgency to try to score the winning goal. Ended up playing far too many long balls forward. That style of play doesn't suit Manchester United. We must continue to play football and enjoy the game. If we do that, eventually things will come right for us.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Winning, Games

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• There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who had observed the market for a long time. After the markets closed Vinny would get into his Cadillac and drive out to his big house in Long Island. Now there is the guy called Vladimir who gets into his jet and flies to his estate in Aspen for the weekend. I used to worry a little about Vinny. Now I worry a lot about Vladimir

  Michael Lewis

  Islands, Long, Worry

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• Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

  C. Wright Mills

  Night, Men, Order

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• I hate Christmas. Everything is designed for families, romance, warmth, emotion and presents, and if you have no boyfriend, no money, your mother is going out with a missing Portuguese criminal and your friends don't want to be your friend anymore, it makes you want to emigrate to a vicious Muslim regime, where at least all the women are treated like social outcasts. Anyway, I don't care. I am going to quietly read a book all weekend and listen to classical music.

  Helen Fielding

  Mother, Hate, Book

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Mean, Criminals, Murder

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• It's true, I did say I wanted girlfriends," I capitulated hesitantly, "but couldn't we start with something smaller and less terrifying? Like maybe spend a weekend at a crack house? I heard those people are very nonjudgmental, and if you accidentally say something offensive you can just blame it on their hallucinations.

  Jenny Lawson

  Girlfriend, People, House

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.132, Pan Macmillan

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• Oh, God, I'm so lonely. An entire weekend streching ahead with no one to love or have fun with. Anyway, I don't care. I've got a lovely steamed ginger pudding from M&S to put in the microwave.

  Helen Fielding

  Lonely, Fun, Lovely

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• I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

  John Green

  Past, Ideas, Trying

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.49, Penguin

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• I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• Most of the time, it just sat there in my body, until the weekend. After five or six takes of crying, your body does not want to cry anybody. Your body is like, "I'm over this, can we start laughing, or something?," but you have to keep the emotion. It's a really weird process and it definitely just stays with you.

  Tinsel Korey

  Laughing, Body, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I was working full time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy. At one point a month had gone by, and Marc - my then boyfriend, now husband, and I hadn't gone out on a date. I was like, I don't want to be this person. I want to be a person who cares where she's investing her time and energy. And I want to be a good wife, daughter, and friend.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  "Think You Know Chelsea Clinton? Think Again" by Genevieve Roth, www.glamour.com. October 3, 2013.

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• The only reason I get out of bed at all on weekends is because eventually I can't stand the taste of my own breath any more.

  Jeff Kinney

  Bed, Taste, Reason

  Jeff Kinney (2012). “Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #1)”, p.23, Abrams

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• No one is worth wasting a gorgeous weekend over.

  Susane Colasanti

  Gorgeous

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• When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Moving, Rights

  "Interview on MTV's "Enough is Enough" Forum". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. April 19, 1994.

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• My wife said, 'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, she's been up on the roof two weeks already.'

  Bob Monkhouse

  Love, Funny, Mother

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• I’m going to lie this one right on the line, right here, right now: I’m pro big pants. Strident feminism NEEDS big pants. Really big. I’m currently wearing a pair that could have been used as a fire blanket to put out the Great Fire of London at any point during the first 48 hours or so. They extend from the top of my thigh to my belly button, and effectively double up as a second property that I can escape to at weekends. If I were going to run for parliament, it would be solely on a platform of ‘Get Women In Massive Grundie’s’.

  Caitlin Moran

  Running, Lying, Fire

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