Would Be Quotes - Page 26

• I think spectators and fans are very important. Darts players would be nowhere without them.

  Trina Gulliver

  Player, Thinking, Important

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• It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping".

  Assata Shakur

  Names, People, Nuclear Missiles

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• There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category.

  Jack Nicholson

  Successful, Directors, Range

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• I'm a very good decision maker because I have core set of principles and so I can make decisions. Decisions can be very hard and you have to wrestle with them, but I'm able to get all the data on the table and figure out what would be the best decision because decisions mean ill for some people and mean positives for others.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mean, Data, People

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• There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of his waking energy to suppressing any sign of his emotional response to anything that was going on around him, and the other 15 percent blurting out those authentic responses in the silliest and most inopportune ways. And he had these smiles that would come at the most inappropriate times - just flashes that there was an inner life screaming to get out.

  Harry Shearer

  Emotional, Guy, Way

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• If I could make the same amount of money doing standup it would be no contest. The problem is that if you do make that kind of money doing standup, it's not in clubs, it's in big auditoriums and large venues, and I really think something is lost when you do standup for a big crowd.

  Joe Rogan

  Thinking, Crowds, Clubs

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• Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sports, Football, Art

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• I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but I always take realities of today, lessons from the distant and recent past into consideration.

  Vladimir Putin

  Past, Reality, Perspective

  Source: www.profitmagazin.com

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• When I was playing soccer at the age of 14, the first thing we'd do before going out onto the field would be to climb up on one another's thighs and massage the legs; it was a regular thing. None of us had a thought of being gay, absolutely not, and it's the same with most bodybuilders.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Soccer, Gay, Age

  Source: daggy.name

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• I've been singing my whole life. I'd randomly sing in the hallways at high school, and all my friends would be like, 'You should sing on 'Canadian Idol'!" It definitely gassed me!

  The Weeknd

  School, Idols, Singing

  "The Dark Knight Returns: A Conversation With the Weeknd". Interview with Anupa Mistry, pitchfork.com. August 31, 2015.

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• I like the aspect of technology. For me to spin the way I do, I would have to carry five crates of records with me everywhere I go, which in this day and age would be like two hundred extra dollars in baggage fees. All I need now is a hard drive and a computer and I can rock anywhere in the world.

  Neil Armstrong

  Technology, Two, Rocks

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• I'm a homer, so the closer [I perform] to my house the better. If I could get crowds to gather around my bed, that would be ideal. I also like doing stand-up in places that I can surf, snowboard, or anywhere that I have a pregnancy scare.

  Daniel Tosh

  Pregnancy, House, Scare

  Source: www.collegehumor.com

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• If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like owning a piece of art, l think it would be Elton John's publishing, on his first seven albums. I don't want the money. Being able to own those songs Is like owning a painting of someone you admire.

  Axl Rose

  Song, Art, Thinking

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• I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Fire, Light, Competition

  Interview with Sofia Wenborn, tvnz.co.nz.

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• Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.

  Tom Stoppard

  Drama, Writing, Russia

  Source: news.postimees.ee

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• I read that MTV's Real World got 40,000 applications. That's amazing, such an even number. You would have thought it would be 40,008.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Real, Humor

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• If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Men, Equality

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• Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Bravery, Coward

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• Lucifer whispers that life's not fair and that if the gospel were true, we would never have problems or disappointments. ... The gospel isn't a guarantee against tribulation. That would be like a test with no questions. Rather, the gospel is a guide for maneuvering through the challenges of life with a sense of purpose and direction.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Disappointment, Adversity, Challenges

  Sheri L. Dew (2001). “No Doubt about it”

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• I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Monkeys, Driving, Clear

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.195, Vintage

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• If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Poison, Widowhood, Hinduism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

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• Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jail, India, Causes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”

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• The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Real, Guarantees

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• If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Anarchy, Aggression, Meetings

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