Doors Quotes - Page 39

• I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

  Charlie Sheen

  Past, Order, Talking

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• I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Way, Unconscious, My Own

  "The Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. November 13, 2009.

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• I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Thinking, Something New, Threshold

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• I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heaven, Church, Devil

  "History of the Church". Book by Joseph Smith, 5:517, 1932.

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• I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

  Robert Smith

  Past, Phones, Numbers

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• I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.

  Wesley Snipes

  Stress, Light, Cockroaches

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• I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Running, Race, Yale

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.191, Vintage

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• When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Office, Matter, Facts

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

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• Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

  David Soul

  Personality, Risk, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Two, Important

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• Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description.

  Charles Stanley

  Father, Home, Thinking

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• When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we both walked away with the door still open, if we want to do something together again. So yeah, I would call it a friendly break-up.

  Scott Stapp

  Break Up, Thinking, Together Again

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• I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

  Laurence Sterne

  Mountain, Cottages, Literature

  Laurence Sterne (1795). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.175

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• It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door.

  Kristen Stewart

  Feelings, Details, Different

  "Kristen Stewart Video Interview THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE; Also Talks ON THE ROAD and BREAKING DAWN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 12, 2010.

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• I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

  Angie Stone

  Home, Men, Feet

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• Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

  Billy Sunday

  Temptation, Devil, Keyholes

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Swings, Cities

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.

  James Surowiecki

  Order, World, Profit Margin

  "After Rana Plaza". www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2013.

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• Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants these policies are a recipe for stagnation.

  James Surowiecki

  Tough Times, Recipes, Cases

  "The Track-Star Economy". www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I actually never auditioned for 'Full House.' I had done a guest appearance on 'Valerie' as the next door neighbor's niece, and from that I got into 'Full House.' I was only five years old, and I was on the show until I was 13.

  Jodi Sweetin

  Niece, Years, House

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• I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Dating, Guy

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• If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Trying, Next

  "My Music, MySpace, My Life" by Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. November 07, 2008.

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• It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors.

  Ice T

  Rap, Artist, Hip Hop

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• The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Grandmother, Orange, Childhood

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• If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sweet, Father, Selfish

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