Drag Quotes - Page 28

• I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.

  Fiona Apple

  Writing, Dinner, Stories

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I admire actors for their infinite patience. That's why they need all those trailers and all their crowd of people who pamper them. But it is a drag to get up sometimes at 4:30 in the morning and get into makeup, and wait forever until they call you onto the set.

  Roman Polanski

  Morning, Makeup, People

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• Jamie Oliver's lunch is soup, half a papaya with lime, ciabatta with mozzarella and prosciutto. The dear boy is not sharing the same planet as the rest of us. Is this lunacy supposed to be a practical suggestion for a harassed housewife trying to drag her children off to school?

  Terry Wogan

  Children, School, Boys

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• We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.

  Vladimir Putin

  Moving, Past, Down And

  Interview with German television channel ARD and ZDF, May 2005.

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• I'm a huge fan of the people and things that are considered the epitomes of tastelessness - things like drag and raunchy comedy.

  Margaret Cho

  People, Fans, Comedy

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.

  Abby May Alcott

  Pride, Silence, Yoke

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• My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence.

  Elvis Costello

  Thinking, Quality, Life Is

  Interview with Nick Kent, 1978.

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• In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or by keeping up with modern trends anything that will drag in a few more people.

  Robertson Davies

  People, Church, Trends

  "Conversations with Robertson Davies". Book by Robertson Davies, "Author Says Messiah Could Be a Woman", 1989.

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• Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Soul, Balls, Chains

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen

  Dolly Parton

  Music, Queens, Explanation

  "Ye Olde Papere: Dolly Parton's boobs have served her well". Interview with Sophie de Rakoff, www.papermag.com. September 1, 2011.

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• The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the salmon and you'll never be asked again.

  Clement Freud

  Depressing, Animal, Years

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• When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and over again. There's nothing unique or marvelous. It's not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It's just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you're not a good sportswriter.

  Rick Bragg

  Unique, Light, Games

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• Does the weight of consequence drag you down until it pulls you under?

  Ashlee Simpson

  Doe, Unanswered Questions, Weight

  Song: I Am Me, Album: I Am Me, 2005

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• There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

  Booker T. Washington

  Men, Brotherhood, Lifts

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.96, University of Illinois Press

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• There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.

  RuPaul

  Years, Careers, Long

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Marching onward, marching onward
  Marching to that lovely tune
  Marching onward, marching onward
  Happy as a bird in June
  
  Sliding onward, sliding onward
  Listen to that rag
  Hop and skip now do that slow, oh
  Do that slow drag
  
  Dance slowly, prance slowly
  Now you hear that pretty rag
  Dance slowly, prance slowly
  Now you do the real slow drag
  
  Waltz slowly, waltz slowly
  Listen to the ragtime
  Hop and skip
  Now do the slow, oh, do the slow drag

  Scott Joplin

  Real, June, Bird

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• The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it difficult to keep America society cohesive. Asia can see it is not working.. In America itself, there is widespread crime and violence, old people feel forgotten, families are falling apart. And the media attacks the integrity and character of your leaders with impunity, drags down all those in authority and blames everyone but itself.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Integrity, Fall, Character

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• As far as the gambling debts on there, not one cent was any type of sports betting. It's just something obviously I'm not proud of because it drags a lot of other people into this than I'd want. It's something I'm continuing to deal with.

  Darren McCarty

  Sports, Gambling, People

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• It will scramble your head and drag your brain about, sometimes you gotta do like Elvis did and shoot the damn thing out.

  Bob Dylan

  Brain, Sometimes, Damn

  Song: T.V. Talkin' Song, Album: Under The Red Sky, 1990

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• Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around, I'd rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.

  Ben Harper

  Relationship, Fall, Temptation

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• If you want to have great sex, find a partner who really turns you on. Pills are merely props, and props can turn out to be a big drag.

  Jackie Collins

  Sex, Pills, Want

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• The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.

  John of the Cross

  Journey, Soul, Saint

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• Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.

  Nick Hornby

  Awkward, Flesh, Threatening

  "High Fidelity". Book by Nick Hornby, 1995.

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• Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There's just too much at stake.

  Bill Hybels

  Christian, Life Is Too Short, Compassion

  Bill Hybels, Mark Mittelberg (2008). “Becoming a Contagious Christian”, p.58, Zondervan

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• Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but ... to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your anchors must hold fast where other men's drag.

  Margot Asquith

  Men, Anchors, Leader

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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