Appeals Quotes - Page 34

• The thought of eating rabbit and squirrels doesn't appeal to me. And that was on our table quite often as a kid. In your uppity restaurants, they serve a lot of rabbit. But I just can't help but think of Peter. And deer, I can't go there, because of Bambi.

  Paula Deen

  Kids, Thinking, Squirrels

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• Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities.

  Roger Ebert

  Cute, Sex, Quality

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.597, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.

  Bobby Flay

  Football, Weekend, Thinking

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• It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God when they're not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps.

  Ron Fournier

  Dream, Country, Hard Work

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• There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Self, Way

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• Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Absence, Made, Barbarism

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.

  Ryan Gosling

  Thinking, Appreciate, Guy

  "If women love me it’s because I listen …not for my abs" by Amy Jones, www.thesun.co.uk. August 25, 2012.

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• Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.

  Ellie Goulding

  Son, America, Proud

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• Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress - but then, each day is different. Not every day is a magical day.

  Daphne Guinness

  Dresses, Different, Each Day

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• Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Huge

  "Eddie Van Halen deconstructs his collaboration on 'Beat It'". Interview with Denise Quan, edition.cnn.com. November 30, 2012.

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• I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

  Jesse Jackson

  Health, Mean, Fighting

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson on Fallout From Firing of Shirley Sherrod". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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• I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.

  Victoria Justice

  Writing, Want

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• It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.

  Kellan Lutz

  Sex, People, Laughing

  Interview With Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.

  David Mamet

  Gun, Years, Assault Weapons

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• The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

  Yann Martel

  Book, Ideas, Fiction

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• I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to.

  Danny McBride

  Hero, Writing, School

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

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• The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Powerful, Computer, Hardware

  "The Physicist" by Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 1995.

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• I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

  Bill Nighy

  Men, Solitary Life, Ideas

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• I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Thinking, Tragedy, Serious Subjects

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• Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.

  Camille Paglia

  Thinking, Long, Fans

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• I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work because people know I'm swinging as hard as I can, trying to connect, giving it my level best. I have a face for radio, but here I am doing what I do.

  John C. Reilly

  Here I Am, Office, People

  "Conquer Your Shortcomings". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. December 15, 2011.

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• To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Hero, Greek

  "Rick Riordan: 'Myths are universal and are totally ingrained in our culture'". Interview with Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2012.

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• A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

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• I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.

  Carlos Santana

  Artist, Rocks, Wind

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• Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.

  Bob Schieffer

  Thinking, Decision, Boss

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