Faces Quotes - Page 19

• I’m supposed to be all re-injected with yes-we-can fever after the big health care speech, and it was a great speech - when Black Elvis gets jiggy with his teleprompter, there is none better. But here’s the thing: Muhammad Ali also had a way with words, but it helped enormously that he could also punch guys in the face.

  Bill Maher

  Yes We Can, Guy, Black

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.162, Penguin

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• Face the fact that there's only one sure-fire way to erase credit card debt. By picking up a big, shiny pair of scissors and cutting your wife in half.

  Bill Maher

  Cutting, Fire, Wife

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.189, Rodale

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• My generation didn`t face the kind of urgent, pressing issues that my parents did, who fought through a war and a Depression and know what suffering is. That`s why Bob Dole had a tough time with this electorate. He was an old-fashioned curmudgeon who knew about sacrifice, and we didn`t know if we could live up to his standards. But we knew we could live up to Bill Clinton`s. He`s more like one of us.

  Bill Maher

  War, Sacrifice, Issues

  "Lite Night with Bill Maher". Interview with Ana Marie Cox, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1998.

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• I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing... When homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Kissing, Boys

  "Bill Maher: I'm Swiss". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same.

  Italo Calvino

  Distance, Stress, Differences

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• A rested face is a beautiful face. However you can, find your place of rest and peace.

  Goldie Hawn

  Beautiful, Beautiful Face, Rest And Peace

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

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• I'll have a lot of wrinkles on my face, but I feel like my heart will be fat and full.

  Goldie Hawn

  Heart, Wrinkles, Fats

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• I had seen faces in photographs I might have found beautiful had I known even vaguely in what beauty was supposed to consist. And my father's face, on his death-bolster, had seemed to hint at some form of aesthetics relevant to man. But the faces of the living, all grimace and flush, can they be described as objects?

  Samuel Beckett

  Beautiful, Father, Men

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989”, p.55, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I enjoy fame except when I'm with my daughter. Kids stop me all the time and I don't want her to be jealous of the attention. Also, sometimes I just want to be left alone and I refuse to make rubber faces. That's when they start asking, What's the matter, man, don't you like your job? I say, Yeah, I like my job. But I also like having sex, and I'm not going to do that in front of you either.

  Jim Carrey

  Daughter, Jobs, Sex

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• Having a beard is a good way to make your face more susceptible to velcro.

  Demetri Martin

  Velcro, Way, Beard

  Twitter post from Apr 24, 2012

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• Whenever I throw caution to the wind I make sure I'm facing the right way so that it doesn't blow back and hit me in my face.

  Demetri Martin

  Blow, Wind, Way

  Twitter post from Apr 05, 2012

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• Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

  Demetri Martin

  Reality, Your Face, Depends

  Demetri Martin (2013). “Point Your Face at This: Drawings”, p.3, Hachette UK

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• Bill Paley is not only the greatest boss I ever had, but he's the most brilliant, honest and warm human being I've ever met. And I'll say that to his face - even if it costs me my job.

  Jack Benny

  Jobs, Boss, Cost

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• With my doctor, I don't get no respect. I told him I want a vasectomy. He said with a face like mine, I don't need one.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Respect, Doctors, Needs

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• No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend. I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

  Groucho Marx

  Real, Book, Play

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• I would think black people think everything is about race. They are the ones who are on the outside of the game. They are the ones who face it every day.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Race, Games

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• When in doubt, I can stare blankly. The rubber face. There's only so many ways you can stare incredulously at the camera and tilt an eyebrow, but that's your old standby: What would Buster Keaton do?

  Jon Stewart

  Eyebrows, Doubt, Cameras

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

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• As an actor, you generally want to see the other actor's face.

  Bob Newhart

  Actors, Want

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• There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.

  Tony Blair

  Baby, Morning, Reality

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• Computer enhancement has spread to still photography in advertisements, fashion pictorials, and magazine covers, where the human figure and face are subtly elongated or remodeled at will. Caricature is our ruling mode.

  Camille Paglia

  Photography, Fashion, Enhancement

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• My face is my passport.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Passports

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• Bush is the face on the can. But who canned that soup?

  Mort Sahl

  Soup

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• Part of growing up is learning your strengths and weaknesses. What better way to figure out that hand-eye coordination ain't your thing than by getting drilled in the mouth by a red, rubber ball? You only gotta get beaned in the face so many times before you figure out, 'I better hit the books because this is not working out.

  Greg Giraldo

  Growing Up, Book, Eye

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• People ask what those women saw in me. Let's face it, I wasn't a bad-looking stud. But that's not it. It's the music; it's standing up there under the lights. A lot of women just flip; looks have nothing to do with it. You call Mick Jagger good-looking?

  Artie Shaw

  Funny, Light, People

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• Tom Cruise shouldn't try to win Oscars. He should just smile and kick people in the face and leave the acting to Hugh Jackman. Why Hugh Jackman? I dunno; come up with your own example, smart-ass.

  Doug Benson

  Smart, Winning, People

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