Digging Quotes - Page 8

• Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

  Henry Rollins

  War, Years, Cities

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• As Churchill said about the Great War, and he said this in about 1924, that it was the first war in which man realized that he could obliterate himself completely. If you consider the way the whole world was impacted, 18 million people worldwide died, and that is taking into account military and civilian deaths: 18 million people. And it was the whole world, if you will. You know, many of those trenches were dug by Chinese. There are photographs of Chinese looking like they just came from China, with their hats and so on, digging the trenches, right from the beginning.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Military, War, Men

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a real paradox, to destroy the land, yet love it at the same time. This is a typical story of Westerners, how we build community through change.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Country, Real, Land

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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• When you're at drama school you spend so much time working on amazing texts and analyzing them, digging into them, and figuring out why it happens, why you are being asked to say what you're saying, and what the words mean. But then when you start working, most of the stuff would just fall apart if you subject it to that kind of scrutiny.

  Jared Harris

  Drama, Fall, School

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Emotional truth is the reward of digging deeply enough to find the truth about how one really feels, but in order to convey this truth with any force, or artistry, one needs to 'create' a form of expression, and this form determines its own "genuine information".

  Philip Schultz

  Emotional, Expression, Order

  Source: poems.com

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• Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

  Michael Palin

  Garden, Long, People

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• I first met my wife in the tunnel of love. She was digging it at the time.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Tunnels

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• My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Golf, Years

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Lying, Tunnels

  "Morgan Freeman: 'Strive for Pleasure and Peace'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. November 28, 2012.

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• I had spent 10 days of my life digging for garbage.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Garbage

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.

  Mat Kearney

  Weakness, Married, Humans

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The music is at its best when people are truly digging in.

  Gerard Cox

  People, Music Is

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• The [palette] fantasy is always to get what you want, what you wear, and to be able to take it with you, so you don't have to bring all the other stuff. I just started digging through my drawers of my favorites, and I asked myself what is it that I cant live without?

  Gwen Stefani

  Want, Able, Stuff

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Democracy, Cameras, Television

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• I started digging and found that Israel signed a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates after the country had diversified their economy, instead of being solely oil-based. This diversification had brought about modernization. I realized that if you land the price of oil, countries will diversify their economies and as a result, modernize.

  Shai Agassi

  Country, Israel, Land

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• History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

  Wallace Stegner

  Reason Why, Novelty, Bent

  Wallace Stegner (2008). “The Twilight of Self Reliance: Frontier Values and Contemporary America”

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• If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

  Will Rogers

  Trying, Holes, Ifs

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• The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.

  Richard Posner

  Light, Punishment, Fake

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• A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

  Dan Jenkins

  Lying, Team, Party

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• It is crucial in a sound investment process to search a mile wide than a mile deep with they find something - also.. never stop digging for information.

  Seth Klarman

  Sound, Information, Investment

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• A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them.

  Sara Bonnett Stein

  Weed, Roots, Feet

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• A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

  Mark Twain

  World, Banquets, Weariness

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.85, Univ of California Press

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• It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

  Lance Armstrong

  Simple, Training, Harder

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• Corsets do look so pretty. Once I watched it, I was like, "Well, they do look nicer than the way I do normally," but they're really uncomfortable. You start to realize why women would pass out. We had the real ones, and they were just awful. At one point, I was like, "I think that's my spleen that this is digging into." So, if I had a nightgown, that was always really comfy. I had a few coats that I thought were pretty cool.

  Kristen Connolly

  Real, Thinking, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.

  J. I. Packer

  Devil, Would Be, Firsts

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