Bunch Quotes - Page 17

• It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

  Jonah Hill

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.

  Hilary Liftin

  Jobs, Data, Narrative

  "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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• I love when rappers have a off-beat, very abstract timing, and he certainly did.And any rapper who really approaches rapping with the art form of songwriting melodically - I know a bunch of rappers who actually go in before they write the lyrics and come up with the melody. And you can hear and feel that difference so much when that's the case.

  Solange Knowles

  Art, Rap, Writing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You've got to bring the emotion, and you have to understand that you can't touch other people if you're not touched. You can't move other people if you're not moved. So if you're just giving some frickin talk you've memorized over and over again, you're going to have a flat affect. If you've just got a bunch of visuals on the screen that are leading your talk, hang up your shoes and get the hell out of there.

  Tony Robbins

  Moving, Shoes, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Running, Fall, Falling Down

  "Kathleen Hanna And Sini Anderson On SXSW’s THE PUNK SINGER". Interview with Meredith Borders, birthmoviesdeath.com. March 20, 2013.

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• When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.

  Paul Merton

  Oysters, Guy, Edinburgh

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• This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all.

  Jim Goldberg

  Kids, Boys, Gun

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• To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, People, Sick

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• If you don't manufacture a quality product all you've got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes.

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Mistake, Quality, Ends

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.43, Routledge

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• Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.

  Charles Simonyi

  Real, Opposites, Today

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• We might have the worst bunch of guys together we've ever seen as a football team. I don't know what anybody else has, but I'd trade mine with anybody, sight unseen.

  Buddy Ryan

  Football, Team, Sight

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• Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.

  Gotye

  Song, Journey, Giving

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• I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.

  Brett Ratner

  Home, Vanity, Watches

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• Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Financial, Protection, Failing

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• As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "Life on the hard shoulder" by Simon Beaufoy, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2008.

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• In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesnt mean imposing a bunch of rules.

  Don Yaeger

  Strong, Team, Mean

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• I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts.

  JWoww

  Basketball, Softball, Art

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• To me, Texas is Austin, a bunch of cool people trying to make a difference.

  Bill Hicks

  Texas, Differences, People

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• I did a lot of theater as a kid because I had a bunch of friends who did it.

  Bobby Moynihan

  Kids, Theater

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• I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.

  Brian Andreas

  Book, Sound, Stuff

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• If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Couple, Iron, Car

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• Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool.

  Mira Grant

  Running, Tree, Way

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• The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain Christians do not like. What if the next bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow J on all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist doctrine?

  Frank Zappa

  Christian, Children, Doors

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke. So the savings and loans went broke, the government stepped in, paid off depositors, and now they're left with this mass of assets to sell. We're not talking about selling here, we're talking about buying intelligently. They were selling what they got handed to them by a bunch of savings and loan operators that had in many cases had done some very dumb thing. But their job was to liquidate it. And they liquidated.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Jobs, Government, Talking

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.

  Jeff Bezos

  Shopping, People, Online

  "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2002.

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