Wings Quotes - Page 29

• Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

  Kathy Bates

  Agents, Oscars, Given

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• Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour.

  Mario Batali

  Smart, Mean, Three

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• We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's 'China Beach,' 'The West Wing,' or 'E.R.

  Michael Cudlitz

  Beach, Growing Up, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

  Barbara Amiel

  Today, West, Helping

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• Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.

  Eric Alterman

  President, Facts, Legacy

  "Think Again: Conservatives Prefer Reagan Fantasies to Reality (And So Did Reagan)" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.

  Mario Cantone

  Religious, Gay, Years

  "Mario Cantone on His First San Francisco Stint" by Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2010.

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• Oh, my only – if I had one frustration in being on “West Wing” is I wasn’t on it enough, because I was in and out.

  Stockard Channing

  Frustration, West, Enough

  "Actress Stockard Channing". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 17, 2011.

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• I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

  Vince Cable

  Father, Boys, Views

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• We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

  Jacques Delors

  Struggle, Want, Sides

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• My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.

  Ted Dekker

  Spiritual, Strong, Writing

  Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. April 20, 2009.

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• The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

  William Devane

  Presidential, West, Feeding

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• As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

  Britt Ekland

  Agony, Waiting, Goes On

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• Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Philosophy, People, Degrees

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• The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

  Russ Feingold

  America, Want, Conservative

  Russ Feingold (2012). “While America Sleeps: A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era”, p.211, Broadway Books

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• I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In his day, the definition of a conservative right-wing president is more like a centrist in our own time. He's also one of our funnier presidents - just a really good character to write about.

  Austin Grossman

  Memories, Character, Writing

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• You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Dragons, Bird, Alcohol

  Song: Junkie, Album: Down To Earth

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• Look to love and you may dream, and if it should leave then give it wings. But if a love is meant to be, hope is home and the heart is free.

  Enya

  Love, Dream, Home

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• We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as it moves into your city.

  Sheryl Crow

  Art, Moving, Media

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• May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in reproving notes to tell, Of hours mispent, and murder'd time.

  Charlotte Turner Smith

  Sweet, Time, Silver Bells

  Charlotte Turner Smith (2014). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Charlotte Smith (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics

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• This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Morning, Children, Poetry

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• You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

  Elton John

  Bird, Cages, Adages

  Song: Cage The Songbird, Album: Blue Moves

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• I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

  Jeffrey Combs

  Thinking, Humans, Persons

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• I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Sex, Gay, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.

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• There are many interactions that an actor like me has in public when he gets recognized. The best are 'You're a great actor, good work,' and move on. A very good interaction could be when they say 'You were awesome on 'The West Wing,'' 'Loved 'In Her Shoes,' great movie,' ''What Women Want,' good job dude.

  Mark Feuerstein

  Jobs, Moving, Shoes

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• It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped.

  Graham Joyce

  Christian, Eels, Kyoto

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