Cutters Quotes - Page 3

• I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.

  Halle Berry

  Color, Way, Path

  "Female Bonding - Hot on the Heels of Her Academy-award Winning Turn in 'Monster's Ball,' Halle Berry Shares the Screen With 007". Chicago Sun-Times, November 17, 2002.

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• I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Air, Eagles, Numbers

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• And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity. The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime. We won't know them by their name but their compensation will be to affect the outcome of the planet. Until then, there's a lot of work to be done.

  Adam Parfrey

  Play, Names, Dumb

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• What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects the wealth they produce. Last September (2001) a handful of fanatics, armed only with box-cutters, provided a new rationale for the trillion -dollar swindle. A bonanza! I don't know what these 'terrorists' thought they were achieving: Making the infidel respect Allah? If so, they were wrong. You might as well try to make the U.S. government respect the U.S. Constitution.

  Joseph Sobran

  Blessing, Reality, Government

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• Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Riches, Poverty, Shutters

  "The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea".

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• College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.

  Bill Gaede

  College, Cookies, Machines

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• I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose. My skin, you see, screams. It's covered with words - cook, cupcake, kitty, curls - as if a knife-wielding first-grader learned to write on my flesh. I sometimes, but only sometimes, laugh. Getting out of the bath and seeing, out of the corner of my eye, down the side of a leg: baby-doll. Pulling on a sweater, and in a flash of my wrist: harmful. Why these words?

  Gillian Flynn

  Baby, Eye, Writing

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.63, Broadway Books

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• I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it to the work of a stonecutter - chipping away at the raw material until it's just right, or as right as you can get it.

  Harriet Doerr

  Writing, Phrases, Stones

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

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• Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

  Frank Herbert

  Blow, Knives, Decision

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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• Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Divorce, Cookies, Fit

  "Skier Lindsey Vonn reveals battle with depression" by Scott Stump and Scott Stump, www.today.com. November 02, 2015.

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• After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11.

  Frank Gaffney

  War, America, Islam

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• If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it.

  Michelle Forbes

  People, Cynical, Unhappy

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• I'd rather take risks than make something that's cookie cutter.

  Sandra Bullock

  Risk, Cookies, Cookie Cutters

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

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• Your mouth is the best thing that ever happened to my mouth. -Zane Cutter

  Cherry Adair

  Mouths, Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me, Best Things

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• Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.

  Salman Rushdie

  Friends, Mother, Character

  "The Ground Beneath Her Feet". Book by Salman Rushdie, April, 1999.

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• For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women, too, what makes you different or weird-that's your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now I don't. It's OK.

  Meryl Streep

  Girl, Hate, Men

  "Meryl Streep's Advice to Women: Don't Worry So Much About Your Weight" By Natalie Matthews, www.elle.com. April 18, 2014.

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• U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor kinves, and pepper spray on fourteen commerical flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Cities, Organization

  "Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)". Book by Dave Barry, 2007.

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• My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

  Alan King

  Father, Smart, Hero

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• I'm not really a cutter-off sort of person. I'll chat to anybody.

  Frank Bruno

  Persons

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• Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Cutting, Player

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• That divot is so deep, I will need a sod cutter to fix it.

  Brian Weiss

  Golf, Needs, Sod

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• The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem ("It's simple; it's broke.") to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Real, Moving, Science

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• I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.

  Ann Coulter

  Sports, Thinking, Government

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.266, Crown Forum

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• All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.

  Isaiah

  Song, Fall, Tree

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• It's offensive to me to be called a cost cutter.

  Jamie Dimon

  Cost, Offensive

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