Wire Quotes - Page 17

I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered for that character.

Michael K. Williams

Character, Today, Omar

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Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and The Cosby show. She doesn't shrink from the realities of life in an inner city funeral home, but she is also a loving witness, documenting the big hearted community that takes care of its own. Told with compassion, wit, and good old fashioned story telling, Sheri Booker gives us unforgettable characters who will make you laugh right up until they break your heart.

Tayari Jones

Character, Home, Heart

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People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible.

Curtis W. Fentress

People, Goal, Roles

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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

J Allard

People, Couches, Bigs

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I was in The Wire for three years, and I left at the highlight of that.

Idris Elba

Years, Three, Highlights

"Idris Elba and Ruth Wilson Interview LUTHER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2010.

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I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.

William H. Gass

Voice, Connections, Bars

William H. Gass (1968). “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories”, p.191, David R. Godine Publisher

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I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.

Craig Newmark

Reading, Political, News

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True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire

Dean Cavanagh

Flower, Heart, Love Is

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The next innovation, Sensavision, will be like a Walkman attached to your forehead. You won't actually have your head wired because infrared wires will send signals to you. In 2007 Mick Jagger will be on stage, and when Mick feels heat, you'll feel heat.

Tony Verna

Innovation, Next, Heat

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If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.

Fred Phelps

Self, Scary, Pieces

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To me, words are like stickpins. I can throw a word at you and it will bounce right off your body. But if I take that little stickpin and wire it to the back of an iron bar called human emotion, I can put that thing right through your heart.

Tony Robbins

Heart, Iron, Bars

Playboy Interview, www.awaken.com. August 17, 2013.

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If you're not flying people around on wires, and you're only allowing them to do things that people can really do, it can't go on for very long, because eventually somebody gets the drop on the other person and then it's over.

Steven Soderbergh

Long, People, Flying

Source: www.avclub.com

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There was a time in my acting career, where I was trying to figure out if acting was the thing to do. You know? I was always on this journey of trying to learn more about humanity and people - using the characters and situations as guideposts. I could switch up and do another job as long as I'm continuing that same search and that same journey of revealing my connection to humanity and the universe. And directing gives me the opportunity to explore ALL these different lives and their connection to their environments and the people. And I get to connect to the wires of the universe.

Forest Whitaker

Jobs, Character, Opportunity

Source: www.nbcnews.com

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The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.

Ellen Goodman

Children, Artist, Average

Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.

Linda Ellerbee

Long, People, Television

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My faith
is a great weight
hung on a small wire,
as doth the spider
hang her baby on a thin web.

Anne Sexton

Faith, Baby, Spiders

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My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

Carl Sandburg

Cutting, Firsts, Cigar

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At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution.

Chris Burden

Two, Venice, Burning

Chris Burden, Alberta College of Art. Gallery (1976). “Chris Burden, February 18, 1976”

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He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't discover the world and its people, he created them. When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day. His mind plunged like a colt in a happy pasture, and when later the world put up fences, he plunged against the wire, and when the final stockade surrounded him, he plunged right through it and out. And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow.

John Steinbeck

Father, Book, Eden

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.38, Penguin

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This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are.

Barack Obama

War, Mean, Law

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When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

Chief Seattle

Talking, Land, Green Hills

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Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, littleBits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures.

Ayah Bdeir

Motivation, Inspiration, Simple

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The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever label they wear, whether they call themselves Christians, Communists, humanitarians, whether they are merely sincere but stupid or wire-pullers and cynics, they are all makers of slaves. I myself have always kept my eye fixed on a paradise which, in the nature of things, lies well within our reach. I mean an improvement in the lot of the German people. (21st February 1945)

Adolf Hitler

Christian, Lying, Stupid

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In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

Leigh Steinberg

Athlete, Reality, Alcohol

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Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

Ugo Betti

Running, Ideas, Long

Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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