Covered Quotes - Page 20

• Coming up, at 89 years old, acclaimed sculptor Gerson Frank was finally able to marry his longtime partner, Bill. Their relationship has covered three decades and seen many changes in gay rights, but Gerson never viewed himself as an activist.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Gay, Rights, Years

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• The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.

  Samuel Woodworth

  Iron, Water, Moss

  Samuel Woodworth (1861). “The poetical works of Samuel Woodworth”, p.31

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• When the sky is totally covered by the dark clouds, be strong enough to see the bright stars beyond them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Stars, Dark

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• I've always been into leopard print. No joke, when I was 14 years old I wanted my entire room to be covered in it.

  Kim Kardashian

  Years, Leopards, Rooms

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Covered Up, Evil, Slavery

  Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood, delivered 26 February 1965

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• Your seed has been covered with so many layers of culture, etiquitte, education, religion, country, that you have completely forgotten that you are here to grow, that you have become a lush green bush full of flowers, fragrance, dancing in the wind and in the rain and in the sun.

  Rajneesh

  Country, Rain, Flower

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• It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Europe, Secret

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• They just hate it when people make love. And then they'll go to a fistfight where somebody's really hurt and all covered with bloodand they'll just love that. Or a war and stuff like that. They're all mixed up and they're trying to take it out on you so you get mixed up too.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Hurt, Hate, War

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this reality from the questions people ask of a story over coffee.

  Charles Bowden

  Coffee, Reality, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Guns, double-crosses, hitmen... I can get used to a lot of things, but I'm never going to get used to sleeping where apocalypse bugs mate,” Wednesday said, walking into the room looking around. She dropped her Birkin on the floor and heard something scuttling behind the cheap plastic wood print veneer covered dresser. She turned to face Alvin, her head cocked to the side. “Seriously. I'm not saying five-star... I'm saying go on Expedia and find a place that actually has stars... any stars.

  Dennis Sharp

  Stars, Sleep, Gun

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• In fact, my face has shrunk in the meantime, but it won't be particularly noticeable because it's covered up with hair. So I hope I'm not alarmed if I ever do sit through the five movies.

  Ian Mckellen

  Hair, Covered Up, Faces

  Source: collider.com

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• If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits it!

  Fred Rogers

  Sight, Anxiety, Would Be

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• A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

  Franz Kafka

  Winter, Dark, Night

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• The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the war in the Sinai Desert made people forget Allende, the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai, and so on and so forth until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, War, People

  "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting". Book by Milan Kundera, 1979.

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• The biggest challenge is self-financing 100% of everything. Recording costs, studio time, engineer fees, travel costs are all a part of the creation process. Then after the creation, there are producer fees, mixing, mastering, photo shoots, artwork, packaging, artist feature fees, legal fees, clearances, and so on that must be covered before any music can officially be released to the public.

  Mya

  Artist, Self, Challenges

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• If you're over 60, arms are not pretty, so I think you should stay covered up. But wear what's appropriate for what you're doing, how you live, and what your lifestyle is.

  Iris Apfel

  Thinking, Covered Up, Arms

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.

  Dana Gould

  Tattoo, Race, Years

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• You know, honestly - look, I'm not a journalist. This is the first, you know, tragedy that I have covered on the air.

  Glenn Beck

  Air, Tragedy, Firsts

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• No country can hope to beat the Yanks off with conventional weapons - they've got air, sea and land completely covered. The only recourse is chemical, biological and nuclear weapons (the Yanks used them in Vietnam, and have not ruled out using them in this war).

  Margo Kingston

  Country, War, Air

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• The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss has covered it uniformly and fully; even Hilbert did not and all of us are of considerably lesser width quite apart from the question of depth than Hilbert.

  John von Neumann

  Thinking, Depth, Mathematics

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• ... I had a dream where I was taken to Heaven and brought into a beautiful library. There I was given two golden books that were covered with dust. The Lord told me they were golden treasure that was needed for the Body of Christ to have the knowledge to proceed and succeed in this hour.

  Bob Hartley

  Beautiful, Dream, Book

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• The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe.

  James Spann

  Years, Europe, Ice

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• Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suffering, Glitter, Human Life

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1958). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.325, Courier Corporation

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• When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.

  Nate Berkus

  Home, Design, Fleas

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• You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.

  John Scott

  Golf, Snow, Balls

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