Week Quotes - Page 6

• People think that we're crazy because we do six nights a week. I would physically not be able to take it, especially when you see how much he put into every show... He created this larger than life style and he pulled it off.

  Rob Thomas

  Crazy, Night, Thinking

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• People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.'  How do I know what I might be if I were a white man?  I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day.  I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week.  There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am.  In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man.  But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

  Bert Williams

  Song, Men, White Man

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• The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop 'granite.' They say 'granodiorite' when they are in church and 'granite' the rest of the week.

  John McPhee

  Church, Enthusiasm, Affection

  John McPhee (2000). “Annals of the Former World”, p.22, Macmillan

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• I'm moving to Mars next week, so if you have any boxes...

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Moving, Humor

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• I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.

  Timothy Murphy

  Agency, Order, President

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• Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

  Richard Cecil

  Mean, People, Six

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• It's impossible to overvalue the importance of television - both in its serious and less serious functions. It's one of our most important ways of finding out the truth - and also of changing the world, and finding out what in the world needs changing. It's also an immense bringer of joy - I learnt how to laugh through television, and now my children and I, every day of every week, share the joy and stupidity of TV shows - they actually make us HAPPY

  Richard Curtis

  Children, Tv Shows, Laughing

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• Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.

  Ryan White

  Blood, Broke, Injection

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• Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Sorry, Fall, Giving

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

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• Dolphins : Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day.

  Hal Roach

  Funny, Animal, Intelligent

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• And there will be a time, not for long, a month is enough, or a week, when every single person will be able to completely fulfill what they were meant to be—everything their bodies and souls have offered them, not what other people have dumped on them.

  David Grossman

  Long, People, Soul

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• Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

  Matthew Kelly

  Character, Years, Discipline

  Matthew Kelly (2002). “Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose”, p.33, BookBaby

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• Being inspired is fine for a week, and being motivated might work for a month or so, but to make any lifestyle change last a lifetime, you need dedication.

  John Bingham

  Dedication, Needs, Might

  John Bingham (2002). “No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running”, p.101, Rodale

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• On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering when I’m going to be able to get started. And the routine of doing this six days a week puts a little drop in a bucket each day, and that’s the key. Because if you put a drop in a bucket every day, after three hundred and sixty-five days, the bucket’s going to have some water in it.

  John McPhee

  Keys, Long, Water

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• The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

  Barbara Bush

  Family, Children, Dirty

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• I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks, and I would be prepared to go down to 20.

  Michael Howard

  Believe, Past, Law

  "Howard urges limits on 'too easy' abortions" by Gaby Hinsliff, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2005.

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• The Lord IS my shepherd. Not was, not may be, nor will be. . . is my shepherd on Sunday, is on Monday, and is through every day of the week; is in January, is in December, and every month of the year, is at home, and is in China; is in peace, and is in war; in abundance, and in penury.

  Hudson Taylor

  Monday, War, Home

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• I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

  Ken Thompson

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

  Allen Klein

  Laughter, Pain, Humor

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• Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

  Frank McCourt

  Christmas, Mother, Lonely

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• My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

  Andre Dubus

  Mother, Stars, Vegetables

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• I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.

  Andre Dubus

  Running, Sunday, Son

  "The Exchange: Andre Dubus III". Interview with Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2011.

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• I'm having as much fun today as I did when I made $55 a week, because it is as much fun

  Larry King

  Fun, Today, Made

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• If I wake up in the morning and I don't want to get you a coffee or if I don't see you for a week and I don't want to go figure out something to FedEx you, then we've got a problem. You can fake the words I miss you, but you can't fake getting someone a book.

  John Mayer

  Morning, Coffee, Book

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• Dilbert: It took weeks but I've calculated a new theory about the origin of the universe. According to my calculations it didn't start with a "Big Bang" at all-it was more of "Phhbwt" sound. You may be wondering about the practical applications of the "Little Phhbwt" theory. Dogbert: I was wondering when you'll go away.

  Scott Adams

  Science, Going Away, Bangs

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