Doors Quotes - Page 38

• When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

  Jenni Rivera

  Mother, Artist, Typical

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• I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

  Joan Rivers

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Smart

  "Joan Rivers Hates You, Herself and Everyone Else". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kuow.org. December 26, 2012.

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• One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.

  Tom Robbins

  Book, Intellectual, Aphrodisiac

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• When you've got four people to get dressed to get out the door you don't really spend a lot of time on yourself. But that's the way I roll anyway. I was never one to do my hair and make-up just to go to the market, so it's not that much different. If I get a little eye cream on, I feel I'm ahead of myself.

  Julia Roberts

  Eye, Hair, People

  "Julia Roberts interview: "I don't work a lot now that I'm a desperately fulfilled housewife"". www.mirror.co.uk. August 13, 2010.

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• During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally had to check the name on the door so as not to call the new boss by the former boss's name.

  Ginger Rogers

  Years, Names, Boss

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door.

  Mitt Romney

  Team, Usa, People

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• Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.

  Mitt Romney

  Religious, World, Walks

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• The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

  Andy Rooney

  Confidence, Blessed, Literature

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• Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

  David Lee Roth

  Real, Chinese, Add

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• I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.

  Tim Roth

  Brother, Father, Real

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• Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.

  Mickey Rourke

  Army, Men, Guy

  "“Domino” Interviews: Mickey Rourke and Edgar Ramirez". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

  Marco Rubio

  Movie, People, Actors

  "Republicans Blast Obama After National Debt Surpasses Economic Output". www.foxnews.com. January 9, 2012.

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• There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.

  Salman Rushdie

  Running, Darkness, Outsiders

  "Salman Rushdie: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2012.

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• It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Imagination, Understanding

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• It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birthday, Dragons, Atheism

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.

  Paul Ryan

  Morning, Work, Thinking

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

  George Sand

  Regret, Struggle, Heart

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• Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Aunt, Musician, Answers

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• I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Motivational Sports, Bodybuilding

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

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• It's time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Party, Thinking, Leader

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

  Walter Scott

  Adversity, Dark, Lakes

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• People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

  Rufus Sewell

  Opportunity, People, Knocking

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

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• Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Athens, Sun

  'Timon Of Athens' act 1, sc. 2, l. [152]

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• Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fire, Painting, Gallery

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• Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

  Gail Sheehy

  Light, Skills, Feelings

  Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.198, Ballantine Books

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