All Kinds Quotes - Page 27

• I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Exercise, Kansas, Library

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• Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

  Leon Trotsky

  Life, Fall, Sadness

  "Trotzky's Diary in Exile - 1935". Book by Leon Trotsky, 1958.

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• Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Trust, Encouragement, Hurt

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• People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Running, People, Environmental

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• What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every now and then I'd be in this science fiction blockbuster that would re-introduce the character and me to a lot of audiences around the world and allow me to go back and do the smaller films again, so it was really a good balance for me.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Drama, Character, Balance

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• I've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn't have an album up online or anything. It's been a lot of work; it definitely hasn't been a sudden explosion into fame.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Names, Different

  "Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine: An EW Q&a". Interview with Leah Greenblatt, ew.com. September 13, 2010.

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• It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.

  George Whitefield

  Book, Light, Generations

  George Whitefield, Samuel Dres, Joseph Smith (1841). “Sermons on important subjects”, p.245

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• Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

  Robert Winston

  Men, Kind, Modern

  "Philip Roth was wrong" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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• I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television, before long there was this procession of people of all kinds, walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound.

  Tom Wolfe

  Light, Two, Long

  "The liberal elite hasn't got a clue". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2004.

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• I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Play, Luxury

  "Tiger Woods, Golf Course Designer" by Matt Ufford, uproxx.com. November 06, 2006.

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• I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

  Rob Zombie

  Drama, Kind, Crime

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• I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind of jobs to support my young son. There's what frames my view on the topics I discuss on my shows, and the average person relates to that. No matter how many degrees I have now, I lived that life, and that comes through to the people watching.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Jobs, Father, Son

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• Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that India is such a receiving country and is always open to all kinds of music. Our composers, singers and writers are open to experimenting.

  Sonu Nigam

  Country, Reflection, Receiving

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• I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something cruel to expiate my anger and to justify myself. But it's difficult with old friends; difficult because it's so easy. You know one another as well as lovers do and you have had less to pretend about. I poured myself a drink and shrugged. 'Nothing's perfect.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hurt, Perfect, Laughing

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• A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what? Two women. What do they look like? Wearing black. Where are they? In a park. . . . And then, what are they doing? Try it, it's so easy, why don't you want to play? You know, that's how I talk to myself when I'm alone, I tell myself all kinds of stories. And not only silly stories: actually, I live this way altogether.

  Andre Breton

  Silly, Eye, Names

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• I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning. I'm drinking hot chocolate in the Village wif girls--all kind who love me. How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy kknow me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love me. Must be what they already had in they pocket.

  Sapphire

  Love, Girl, Hate

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• When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Philosophy, Understanding, Path

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.214, Macmillan

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• Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  World, April, Kind

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White)

  Jodi Picoult

  Teacher, Believe, Thinking

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• Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape - all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Pain, Hate

  "When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times". Book by Pema Chodron, September 26, 2000.

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• Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumph” and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music.

  Oliver Sacks

  Strong, Passion, Animal

  "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain". Book by Oliver Sacks, October 16, 2007.

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• The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Sweet, Hate

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.211, Penguin

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• Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book called "Symbolism in My Books?" If he didn't, then you could just be making all of this up. Does anyone really think this guy sat down and stuck all kinds of hidden meanings into his story? It's just a story.... But I think you are making all of this symbolism stuff up. I don't believe any of it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Believe, Book, Mean

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• Stand Fast Through the Storms of Life. "You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God... God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial kingdom of God" -John Taylor recalls the words of Joseph Smith to the Twelve. JS manual page 231

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Men, Storm

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• Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened one after another, to the point where, if I try to think about them in order, I lose track.

  Haruki Murakami

  Character, Thinking, Order

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