Aces Quotes - Page 3

• I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, "You can like Mozart and ice hockey..." - and then I used to say "golf," but Tiger took over golf! - "and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades."

  Henry Louis Gates

  Golf, Hockey, Years

  "35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.

  Megan McCafferty

  Country, Attitude, Learning

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.61, Crown

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• Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgment of a split second are what makes some pilot an ace, while others think back on what they could have done.

  Pappy Boyington

  Opportunity, Thinking, Preparation

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• If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as ‘Master of Chaos’ and the New Testament as ‘The Thing With Three Souls.

  Terry Carr

  Cutting, Two, Soul

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• My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room - press photos of him on the field looking swarthy and fit, and snaps of our boy emerging from Mayfair nightclubs, looking sexy and dishevelled.

  Julian Clary

  Sexy, Boys, Shrines

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• I'm definitely playing next year. That's my ace in the hole. It's a little hard to sit back and watch the guys [this season], but it's easier knowing I've got something to look forward to.

  Tedy Bruschi

  Years, Knowing, Guy

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• Regardless of what people say, that's what they gotta bang in their heads: Ace Hood is the future. You ain't got nobody else in my lane.

  Ace Hood

  People, Bangs, Lanes

  Source: djbooth.net

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• There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Oysters, Use, Pearls

  Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Imaginary crimes”, Penguin Group USA

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• I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!

  W. C. Fields

  Men, Hands, Nine

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• We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

  Gary Kemp

  Stars, Dad, Book

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• When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I have a memory of them on a small stage next to me in the TV studio. A memory of their performance is burned into my mind. Seared.

  Beck

  Memories, Mind, Tvs

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• I'm still working on my time machine. If I ever perfect it, I'm going back in time to prevent Ace Ventura 2 from being made. And then I'm going after Hitler.

  Andy Kindler

  Perfect, Machines, Made

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• You know how sometimes when you're drunk you say something you sort of regret... to Ace Frehley?

  Eugene Mirman

  Regret, Drunk, Sometimes

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• what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.

  Mae West

  Good Life, Way, World

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• I watch Letterman. Once in a while, on the odd night, I'll catch the Food Network and watch 'Ace of Cakes,' which I'm kind of obsessed with.

  Amanda Righetti

  Night, Cake, Watches

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• I mean, the Ace of Spades example that Jonah Goldberg remembered here (and that made me remember it, too), is that Chris Matthews interview with [Barack] Obama, during the run-up to Obamacare. Not one question about it. And when you stop and think, there never is for the Democrat. The media never questions the substance of anything the Democrats do.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Ace of Spades says that this became clear to him in a revelation one night. He was watching Chris Matthews interview [Barack] Obama, and he didn't get one question! He didn't ask Obama one question about how Obamacare works. Every question was one degree or another: How do you feel about [John] Boehner opposing it? How do you feel about it? What will make you happy? Do you think you can get it? [It] was irrelevant!

  Rush Limbaugh

  Night, Thinking, Obamacare

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Here's the point - and Jonah Goldberg reminds us of this. He wrote a blog post that was titled "The MacGuffinization of American Politics." Do you know what a MacGuffin is? "'In a movie or book, 'The MacGuffin' is the thing the hero wants,' Ace writes." So in the Maltese Falcon, for example, the hero wants the Maltese Falcon, but there's always somebody trying to stop the hero from getting what he wants.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Book, Hero, Writing

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm tryin' to build myself bigger than just Ace Hood, I'm tryin' to build myself as a bigger brand - open up clothing lines, colognes.

  Ace Hood

  Clothing Line, Lines, Bigger

  Source: djbooth.net

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• If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball.

  Phife Dawg

  Games, Play, Balls

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Style, Musician, Groups

  "Born To Run". Book by Bruce Springsteen, 2009.

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• I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth - artists with a small A. But I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hardcore bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style, and a story to tell.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Lying, Player, Artist

  "Bruce Springsteen teases fans with foreword to autobiography Born to Run", www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2016.

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• Most important thing, I am not a player who win the serves because I serve aces or free points, no. When I winning a lot of serves is because I am playing well from the baseline. That's why.

  Rafael Nadal

  Player, Winning, Important

  Source: rafael.nadal.over-blog.com

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• I say what I mean. I don't speak in code. That's why I am a star and ace communicator.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stars, Mean, Speak

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• Through my life, [there have been] a lot of devils and a lot of situations, so I'm just goin' hard, maintaining, regardless of what people got to say about Ace Hood.

  Ace Hood

  People, Devil, Maintaining

  Source: djbooth.net

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