Circles Quotes - Page 26

• No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.

  Michelle Malkin

  Smell, President, Chicago

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• Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Home, Squares

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

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• If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Squares, Careers, Obstacles

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

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• I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Real, Kids, Names

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• Did you know there's a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy - running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything - is the same as wasting your time? It's frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

  Joyce Meyer

  Running, Thinking, Differences

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• In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Japan, Community

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• Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Powerful, Successful, Opposites

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• I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Looks, Magazines, Littles

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• I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

  Ben Okri

  Writing, Past, Way

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• I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone.

  Christine Pelosi

  Sex, Catholic, Abuse

  "Penn State Knew and Looked the Other Way" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2012.

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• Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.

  Katy Perry

  Movie, School, Mtv

  "Katy Perry (she kisses boys, too!)". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. January 5, 2010.

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• It's not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles.

  Matthew Perry

  Talking, Problem

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• I didn't have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Teenage, Normal, Social

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• I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Art, Lines, Drawers

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• I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.

  Joan Rivers

  Outsiders, Hillarious, Jokes

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

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• When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Block, Home, School

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2002.

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• I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Character, Men, Giving

  "Capt. Barbossa’s back: An interview with Geoffrey Rush". "Associated Press" Interview, www.ocregister.com. May 23, 2007.

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• I'm recognizable in certain circles, like girls know me, couples know me. But not all straight men know me.

  Patti Stanger

  Girl, Couple, Men

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• You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.

  George Strait

  People, Trying, Bucks

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• Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Believe, Bankers

  "Inflated Fears". www.newyorker.com. September 14, 2009.

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• I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

  Aimee Teegarden

  True Friend, Clique, Changed

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

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• IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Smartphones, Data, People

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• The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

  Jules Verne

  Distance, League, Water

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.165, Jules Verne

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• I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

  Michelle Williams

  Believe, Thinking, Life Is

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• I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.

  Venus Williams

  Winning, Destiny, Titles

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