Checks Quotes - Page 39

• I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Book, Lines, Comic

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• You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

  David Rockefeller

  Kindness, Heart, Gentleman

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

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• During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally had to check the name on the door so as not to call the new boss by the former boss's name.

  Ginger Rogers

  Doors, Years, Names

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.

  Mitt Romney

  War, Government, Promise

  "Mitt Romney’s New Hampshire primary speech" by Felicia Sonmez, www.washingtonpost.com. January 10, 2012.

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• It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

  Mitt Romney

  Opportunity, Government, America

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• Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.

  Salman Rushdie

  Purpose, Annoying, Knows

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• There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself.

  Jill Scott

  Children, Starting Over, Permission

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• I live right next to a grocery store and I don't know if it's the bachelor in me, but I just go in and shop for what I need for the day. I'm an idiot because I don't shop for the whole week. The check out clerks always crack jokes about the fact that I'm in there sometimes twice a day.

  Sean William Scott

  Clerks, Cracks, Needs

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• I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.

  Vikram Seth

  Kind, Force, Work Harder

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• We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Jobs, Important, Littles

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• I hate girls who complain, 'Oh, guys are looking at me!' But I love it when guys check me out. It just feels great.

  Sarah Shahi

  Girl, Hate, Guy

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• The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

  Gene Simmons

  Being Happy, Selfish, People

  "This much I know" by Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2004.

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• In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.

  Simon Sinek

  Mean, Community, Age

  "True Friendship: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism.

  Edward Snowden

  Responsibility, Government, Nsa

  Interview with Peter Maass, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 2013.

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• All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

  Thomas Sowell

  Facts, Belief, Should

  "Depending on Dependency" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Commitment, Long

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• Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.

  Jon Stewart

  Swings, Ideas, Balance

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

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• I'm not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I'm either working or I'm not. I've gone down that path where you sleep with your phone beside the bed and send an email just before you put your head down and check everything again when you wake up, and I don't like it.

  Curtis Stone

  Sleep, Night, Iphone

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• I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

  Taylor Swift

  Home, Cat, Long

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• As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Confused, Actors

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• We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Opportunity, Earthquakes, Warning

  "Martyrs in Paradise". Book by Terry Reese Downing, 2009.

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• The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact – based indeed on solid journalistic work.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Independent, Government, Criticism

  "The future of newspapers, the end of journalism". Malcolm Turnbull's Speech to the Advanced Centre of Journalism at the University of Melbourne, www.abc.net.au. December 8, 2011.

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• After being on 'Oprah' for a couple of months, I got my first royalty check for $1,478,392.17. I will never forget it. At the height of my career, I made $3.3 million. Unbelievable. From welfare in the projects to $3.3 million.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Couple, Careers, Height

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• [Stephanie] 'You see, Mrs. Mayer was going on about George's lodge, and how he wanted to be buried with his ring, and so Grandma had to check the ring out, and in the process broke off one of George's fingers. Turns out the finger was wax. Somehow Kenny got into the mortuary this morning, left Spiro a note, and chopped off George's finger. And then while I was at the mall tonight with Mary Lou, Kenny threatened me in the shoe department. That must have been when he put the finger in my pocket.' [Morelli] 'Have you been drinking?

  Janet Evanovich

  Morning, Drinking, Grandma

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• i was joking with isabelle about vampires right before it happened. just trying to make her laugh, you know? what freaks out jewish vanpires? silver stars of david? chopped liver? check for eighteen dollars?

  Cassandra Clare

  Stars, Laughing, Trying

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