Air Quotes - Page 9

• The only time I flip out is when I'm not prepared. If I'm caught off guard, I can't help it; I start gasping for air.

  Emma Stone

  Flip, Helping, Caught

  "Emma Stone Talks Panic Attacks And Crying Around Her Idols". Stylist Magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• If you're not doin anything and you don't have goals and you got nothing to do then you might as well go jump off something, you just wasting the air.

  Curtis Jackson

  Goal, Might, Wells

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• I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.

  Amy Poehler

  Art, People, Goal

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Who cares what entertainers on the air think about international affairs? Who would want to hear me about Vietnam? They can hear all they want from people with reason to be respected as knowledgeable.

  Johnny Carson

  Thinking, People, Who Cares

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Wine, Two, Benefits

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• I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it is very delicate. Pre-made cotton candy that has preservatives is not nearly as good or true. True cotton candy is sugar, color, and air and it melts very quickly. That was the metaphor - it can't be preserved, it can't be put aside, it can't be banked. It has to be experienced, like life.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Rainy Day, Thinking, Color

  Interview with Scholastic students, www.scholastic.com. 2002.

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• Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the purpose of all the activity of the world? Answer, I challenge you! It is vanity of vanity: all is vanity.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Running, Vanity

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• The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Water, Spinning, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Fall, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.134, Rajpal & Sons

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• Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Ethics, Morality

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I want to ride in a cold air balloon. "This isn't going anywhere!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Want

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• I have an idea for sweatshops: air conditioning! That's simple. 14 year old boys working twelve hour days? "Yeah, but they're comfortable!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Boys

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• As a kid I couldn't afford any Jordans, so I didn't get my first pair until my last year of high school. They were Air Jordan 9s.

  Carmelo Anthony

  School, Kids, Years

  "Carmelo Anthony talks Michael Jordan, Collecting Sneakers and More". Interview with Brock Cardiner, www.highsnobiety.com. February 2, 2015.

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• The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It's totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of fine, talcum-powderlike dust mixed with a complete variety of pebbles, rocks, and boulders. Many pebbles, fewer rocks, and even fewer boulders naturally make up its surface. The dust is a very fine, overall dark gray. And with no air molecules to separate the dust, it clings together like cement.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dark, Moon, Rocks

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God's best way of getting to us. Revelation begins in the flesh.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  People, Body, Flesh

  Source: www.thehighcalling.org

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• Drive over to the nearest airport, and enroll in flight classes. You will experience the joy of freedom in the air above, as you study the mechanics of how this is made possible by understanding the construction, the laws of motion, the air that can provide lift when it is moved by propulsion through the air, and stay above the gravity pulling the airplane back down to earth.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Airplane, Law, Class

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Smell, Feet, Atmosphere

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• Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

  Al Pacino

  Actors, Eras, Bigs

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Fighting, Sea

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• First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, American Veterans, Europe

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• I am a strong believer in the free market. I am a strong believer in capitalism. But, I am also a strong believer that there are certain common goods - our air, our water, making sure that people are safe - that require to have some regulation.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, People, Water

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• As women, we can't look old. We can't be fat. We're supposed to look like the 14-year-old models in Vogue, who are younger and younger and skinnier and skinnier, and they are air-brushed and contoured and Photoshopped.

  Erica Jong

  Years, Looks, Fats

  "Erica Jong is back - as fearless as ever". Interview with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2015.

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• The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

  William James

  Truth, Objectivity, Quality

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.199, Penguin

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• People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant.

  Maya Angelou

  People, Ignorant, Guilt

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn't have to protest.

  Maya Angelou

  Sky, Voice, Water

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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