Doors Quotes - Page 9

• Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

  Luther Allison

  Play, People, Left

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• I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

  Evan Parker

  Thinking, Decision, Technique

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• The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.

  Ray Manzarek

  Lying, America, Deceit

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• To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Party, Talking, Years

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• There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

  Al Goldstein

  Men, Robots, Want

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• You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors.

  Andrew Shue

  Confidence, Country, Thinking

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• It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.

  Joe Rogan

  Hurt, Careers, Stuff

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• Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

  Perry Como

  Running, Kids, Glasses

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• Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

  Barry McGuire

  Religious, Hate, Grace

  Song: Eve Of Destruction

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• There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.

  Keith Richards

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• He knockin' on the door, let the devil in.

  Rick Ross

  Devil

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• Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.

  D. A. Carson

  Running, Boys, Answers

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.37, Baker Academic

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• Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Long, World, Wheels

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Populist Manifesto No. 1”

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• For years I feared the opening of every elevator, half-convinced that from the opened doors would come a bullet, for me, shot by a man in a tan trenchcoat. I have no idea why I feared this, expected it to happen. I even knew how I would react to this bullet coming from the elevator door, what word I would say. That word was: Finally.

  Dave Eggers

  Men, Years, Ideas

  "A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (Mistakes We Knew We Were Making)". Book by Dave Eggers, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2001.

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• People are like houses. They could open their doors. You could walk through their rooms and touch the objects hidden in their corners. But something--the structure, the wiring, the invisible mechanism that kept the whole thing standing--remai ned invisible, suggested only by the fact of its existing at all.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, House, Rooms

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• The doors of this Library are open now and are all welcome. The judgment of history is left to you, the people. I have no fears of that, for we have done our best. And so I say, come and learn from it.

  Ronald Reagan

  People, Library, Done

  Ronald Reagan (1998). “A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan”

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• Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Men, Gambling

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• When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to you that it cannot be from a human being. But many people don't perceive the Quran this way because Allah doesn't open its doors to people who do not pay attention.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  People, Attention, Pay

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from May 10, 2015

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• I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Children, Real, Educational

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam

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• Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.

  Alice Walker

  Dream, Inspirational Love, I Love Him

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• Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.

  Diane Setterfield

  Past, Destiny, Sometimes

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.426, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house.

  Art Buchwald

  Son, House, Modern Life

  Art Buchwald (1986). “"You can fool all of the people all the time"”, Fawcett Books

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• Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Baptism, Gateways

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part III, Question 73, Article 3), 1485.

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• Every day I watched how a bare metal frame, rolling down the line would come off the other end, a spanking brand new car. What a great idea! Maybe, I could do the same thing with my music. Create a place where a kid off the street could walk in one door, an unknown, go through a process, and come out another door, a star.

  Berry Gordy

  Stars, Kids, Ideas

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• She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

  Jane Austen

  Broken, Promise, Arches

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