Coattails Quotes

• We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

  Catherine Fahringer

  Atheist, Science, Years

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• At the risk bragging, one of the things I'm best at is riding coattails. Behind every successful man is me, smiling and taking partial credit.

  Aziz Ansari

  Successful, Men, Risk

  "Fictional character: Tom Haverford". "Parks and Recreation", 2009–2015.

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• Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Running, Wisdom

  The Sign Magazine, May 1938.

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• But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units -- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails.

  John Steinbeck

  Strong, Men, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.16, Penguin

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• I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Wave

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• I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

  Nathan Fillion

  Thinking, People

  "Nathan Fillion is king of "Castle"". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.reuters.com. March 6, 2011.

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• Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Noses, Hanging On

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• Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?

  Ray Bradbury

  Team, Reading, Home

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm doing an introduction for one of Ralph's [Steadman] books. He's doing something called Gonzo, the Art I think he's stealing from me. I like Steadman and his coattail abilities. Ralph is better at business than I am. He has always managed to get free whiskey.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Art, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Past, Trying, Tasks

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• Hillary [Clinton] wins in a landslide, [Donald] Trump has no coattails, the Democrats are gonna win the Senate, they're close to winning the House back, they're gonna keep the White House for three terms. It's gonna be nirvana.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, White, House

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.

  Alan Chambers

  Believe, Gay, People

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• When we did the first sequel [of the Austin Powers] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well when it was released on video, so we really didn't know what to do with the second plot.

  Jay Roach

  Austin, Plot, Video

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I was always a fan but me and Kevin Pattero, he was a friend of mine who trained for the Olympic games in 1972… he and I became very close friends and roommates and I kind of rode his coattails into the business.

  Ric Flair

  Games, Fans, Kevin

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

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• You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.

  Catherine Keener

  Cooking, Hayek, Restaurants

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• When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.

  Robert Benchley

  Sports, Exercise, Thinking

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• As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Writing, Thinking, Catching On

  "Conversation: Francine du Plessix Gray and Sean Wilsey". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.

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• I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.

  Thomas Steinbeck

  Father, Book, Writing

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