Ducks Quotes - Page 16

• You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Rivers, Long, Mouths

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• When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.

  Penn Jillette

  Kids, Race, Talking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?

  Cassandra Clare

  Hands, Brave, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.543, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it could get passed in a lame duck? Probably tough. But impossible? No, or I wouldn't be wasting my time. It's going to take some leadership, and it takes a time where leadership is more important than people's political career at times.

  John Kasich

  Thinking, Careers, People

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I'm doing a lot of boogie-boarding now. It's actually better exercise, I get a lot more waves, and if I'm out in big surf, I can duck under the waves much easier.

  Robert Englund

  Exercise, Surf, Wave

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As for meat, I'm not going to become vegetarian. I'm telling you that right now. I want me a steak. I want me a pork chop. I want me a lamb chop, even a piece of duck every once in awhile. We used to have ham and salami, all that crazy stuff.

  Sharon Jones

  Crazy, Meat, Pork

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I came to the United States in 1975 I was eleven, and within a few months my voice broke. I recited commercials like a parrot and I got yelled at quite often. My older brother one night said, "You speak so much English when you're not supposed to, that's why your vocal chords shattered. Now you sound like a duck." I thought it was true. I went from this sweet-voiced Vietnamese kid who spoke Vietnamese and French to this craggy-voiced teenager.

  Andrew Lam

  Sweet, Brother, Teenager

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• When you mentioned something about self improvement, the implication is that the negro is something distinct or different, and, therefore, needs to learn how to improve himself. Negro leaders resent this being said, not because they don't know that it's true, but they're thinking, they're looking at it personally. They think that the implication is directed even at them, and that they, and they duck this responsibility.

  Malcolm X

  Responsibility, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• The greatest blunder I have seen that almost everyone makes is to just speak their mind. It doesn't make any sense. They sound like the squawking ducks in a pond. The mind is not meant to be spoken. The mind is mostly waves of thoughts and sensations from many sources. The mind is meant to know the truth. Know your own mind and use it to speak the truth.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Communication, Mind, Sound

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• You know I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters?

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Groucho Marx (2000). “The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx”, Vintage

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• I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then, because my grandfather, Senator Gore, was blind, I was required early on to read grown-up books to him, mostly constitutional law and, of course, the Congressional Record. The later continence of my style is a miracle, considering those years of piping the additional remarks of Mr. Borah of Idaho.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Book, Grandmother

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• I shall never eat duck again. I cannot believe I used to like duck. The duck betrayed me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Betrayed, Used

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Memories, Sleep, First Love

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• Then I lost him for a brief period of time, and by the time I caught up with him, he had wandered into Hyde Park, waded into the Serpetine, spread his arms wide, and was shouting, 'Ducks, embrace me as your king!

  Cassandra Clare

  Kings, Arms, Hyde

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.588, Simon and Schuster

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• Even nowadays some people see me as a "vreemde eend in de bijt" [translated literally as the strange duck in the pond. In other words, an outsider].

  Eddy de Clercq

  People, Ponds, Outsiders

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was just thinking of bunding up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks in Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Hair, Pushing

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• Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Light, Diversity, Groups

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• I am stronger when Tessa is here, you see. I told it to you," said Jem, still in the same soft voice. At that, Will did duck his head so that Tessa could not see his eyes. "I see it," he said.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Voice, Stronger

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• Hey, did somebody step on a duck?

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Hey, Steps

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• What if I accidentally hit somebody? Because my dad took one of his friends golfing, and it was, like, one of his first times and he knocked out a duck. Like, I'm scared that's going to happen.

  Jessica Simpson

  Dad, What If, Firsts

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• Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. To me, he's a great actor.

  Nicolas Cage

  Brother, Hero, Pigs

  "Not much rattling Nicolas Cage these days". Interview with Andrea Mineo, www.cnn.com. July 24, 2009.

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• I am the lucky duck because I have family . My wonderful aunt and uncle are letting me crash on their couch, which isn't really a couch...I have a room! It's been kind of a blessing for the cast because all of us have gotten so close, not knowing anyone in Atlanta. All the guys on the show have become kind of like brothers, and all of us girls are pretty inseparable.

  Candice Accola

  Girl, Brother, Uncles

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That's like standing.

  Mos Def

  Berries, Kind, Chuck

  "Mos Def: From Hip-Hop Star To Chuck Berry". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. December 9, 2008.

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• Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

  Bobby Fischer

  Knowing, Judgement, Chess

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• Somebody told me when Abe Lincoln was a young man, studying by firelight, he said, "I will work hard. I will prepare myself. And my time will come." And you know, that's exactly what I said about myself and football - What do you think? Were Abe and I both just lucky ducks?

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Hard Work, Men

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