All Kinds Quotes - Page 26

• I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.

  Conor Oberst

  Real, People, Listening

  "The Return Of Bright Eyes : A Conversation With Conor Oberst". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2011.

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• There's all kinds of those moments in your life where either through a weird set of circumstances, or a song you hear, or a smell you smell, or one person says something totally out of the context without the meaning that you assigned to it, but you snap back to the way you were when you were 14 or 15. We all deal with that.

  Patton Oswalt

  Song, Smell, Way

  Interview with Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.

  Tom Peters

  Sneakers, Buzz, Today

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• As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

  Charles Rangel

  Fighting, Aids Epidemic, Epidemics

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• I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

  Anne Roiphe

  Fighting, Artist, Thinking

  "Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Interview with Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

  Carl Sandburg

  Book, Writing, People

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1983). “Ever the winds of chance”, Univ of Illinois Pr

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• So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.

  Susan Sarandon

  God, Spiritual, People

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• It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.

  Susan Sarandon

  Growing Up, People, Important

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. November 1, 2004.

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• My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Art, Sunday

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• I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes.

  Steven Seagal

  Years, Police, Different

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• Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.

  Will Self

  Comfort, Crowds, Strange

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• Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about.

  Andrew Shue

  Confidence, Thinking, Feet

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• You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

  Russell Simmons

  Believe, Opportunity, Thinking

  "More Questions with Russell Simmons". content.time.com. May 3, 2007.

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• I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol now and then and sit down with leaders of all kinds of companies.

  Simon Sinek

  Military, Leader, Kind

  "The Why: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

  Peter Singer

  Expression, People, Deception

  "The unknown promise of internet freedom" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Thinking, Ethical Principles

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• Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Mother, Selfish, Choices

  "What Jada Pinkett Smith Gave Up for Her Family". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Movie, Ocean, Scripts

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• But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

  Wole Soyinka

  Exercise, Companionship, Kind

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• I have all kinds of chest injuries; I tore my vein during 'Rocky II' and had 60 stitches. If you've seen 'Rocky Balboa,' you'll know how bad they look.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Looks, Veins, Stitches

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• This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, Integrity, Offering

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• We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

  John Stossel

  Government, Lawyer, Kind

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• There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.

  Patrick Swayze

  Exercise, People, Insanity

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• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  Taylor Swift

  Fall, Appreciate, Kind

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• Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.

  Matt Taibbi

  Player, Nfl, Giving

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