Corny Quotes - Page 7

• Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

  Niels Bohr

  Technology, Years, Opposites

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• House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.

  John Boehner

  House, Support, Leader

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• Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Sports, Golf, Enjoy

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• I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Being Happy, Sports, Levels

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• A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

  Karl Marx

  Business, Sight, Analysis

  Karl Marx (1988). “Marx Selections”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

  Ethel Merman

  Sometimes, Conflict, Trivial Things

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

  Thomas Hardy

  Years, Office, Decision

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Thomas Hardy”, p.176, Wordsworth Editions

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• At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

  Jessica Lange

  Loss, Tragedy, Certain

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• Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

  Og Mandino

  Success, Character, Power

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• Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.

  David Letterman

  Change, Gay, Yesterday

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• No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

  Judy Biggert

  Children, Issues, Age

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• I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.

  Jack Black

  Sea, Judging, Cheesy

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• Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

  John Boehner

  People, Broken, Listening

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• From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

  Gloria Swanson

  Sound, Shooting, Firsts

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• I want my work to always be hopeful, in the end. You're giving me two hours, and, in Shots Fired's case, 10 hours of your life. I don't want you to ever leave something I've done feeling worse than when you came in. I hope the work can be aspirational, and aspirational doesn't have to be corny at all.

  Gina Prince-Bythewood

  Two, Giving, Hopeful

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• A lot of artists are scared to do that, they are scared to step out on their own. What am I the super villain of western Canada is that what I am? Is Classified the clean cut, staying true to his roots, hip hop guy from the East coast that stays in his lane and he made it big staying true to what he did and didn't make corny music? Then that is what he is and I am proud of him for that.

  Shane Bunting

  Cutting, Artist, Roots

  Source: 411mania.com

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• That ain't nothing to be proud of, man. I'm not going to say, like, I'm an angel. I've definitely did some things. I just... I don't know... it's kind of corny to do that sometimes, you know? I mention it a few times, but I don't go crazy with it. I ain't a coke rapper, na'mean? I wasn't no big drug dealer neither, B. You know what I mean? I made enough to get fly, keep a little stack in the crib... couple of stacks in the crib. But I wasn't crazy with it. So that s**t ain't... I always worked for somebody. I got some other n***a rich.

  Sean Price

  Couple, Crazy, Mean

  Source: insomniacmagazine.com

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• To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

  Annette Funicello

  Decades, Predictable

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• Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Lying, Real, People

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• When you're making a real documentary, you shoot it and the movie happens. You don't make - this sounds corny - you don't make a documentary, a documentary makes you. It really does.

  Chris Rock

  Real

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Cities, Long, Fads

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• I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

  Stephen Malkmus

  America, People, Musician

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• Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.

  Sue Kelly

  Jobs, Small Business, Economy

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• We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.

  William Weld

  Money, Race, Ceilings

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• A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

  Suzi Quatro

  Sound, Bass, Woods

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