Fighting Quotes - Page 15

• I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.

  Tim Robbins

  New York, Honesty, Attitude

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• There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Doors, Two, Feelings

  "This much I know" by Malcolm Mclaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.

  Rutger Hauer

  Running, Heart, Smell

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• From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

  Susie Orbach

  Children, Views, Parent

  "In messy divorces, somebody has to be grown up and it's not the children" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

  Greil Marcus

  Music, Song, Mean

  Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.93, Penguin

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• I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

  Richard Cobden

  Military, Fall, Home

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• The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.

  Anne Perry

  War, Believe, Loss

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• What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.

  Charles A. Murray

  Differences, Parent, Black

  Charles A. Murray (1984). “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980”, p.188, Basic Books

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• The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  People, Wiser You, Figures

  "Vanessa Williams reflects on motherhood, struggle and stardom". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 9, 2012.

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• I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.

  Jim Courier

  Team, People, Tennis

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• Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

  Agnes Smedley

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.

  Jay Baruchel

  Dad, Hockey, Boys

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

  Alastair Campbell

  Country, Book, Writing

  "How I got happy and stayed grumpy" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

  Ben Okri

  People, Share

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• I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

  Vincent Cassel

  Father, Acting, Identity

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2010.

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• I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.

  Ellen Page

  Thinking, People, Fake

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• If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.

  Gerry Cooney

  Kings, Years, Careers

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

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• The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.

  Gerry Cooney

  Kings, Mistake, Guy

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

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• To be quite frank and honest with you, it drives me absolutely crazy when my kids fight, the sound of them fighting and not getting along.

  Josie Bissett

  Crazy, Kids, Sound

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• I am comfortable with myself, and this is how I am. I am not really interested in having an acrimonious fight with somebody.

  Joy Behar

  Comfortable

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• I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

  Adam Brody

  Dream, Phones, Smoking

  Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.

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• With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Country, Government, Overcoming

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

  Ben Bernanke

  Bankers, Benefits, Credibility

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• Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Real, Talking, Matter

  "Interview:Benjamin Bratt" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 20, 2004.

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• I don't go out and pick fights.

  Chester Bennington

  Picks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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