Finals Quotes - Page 22

• The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

  Andy Rooney

  Confidence, Blessed, Doors

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• After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.

  Jerry Saltz

  Years, Land, Gnarly

  New York Volume 43, Issues 14-21, New York Magazine Company, p. 1, 2010.

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• For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.

  Stacy Schiff

  Years, Voice, Calling

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• The economic recession in America wasn’t caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Jobs, Loss, Class

  "New Hampshire Debate: News & Updates From GOP Presidential Forum". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The Office' dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we're talking about Michael Scott, 'normal' might be stretching it, obviously.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stars, Talking, Office

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• At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.

  Sylvester Stallone

  The End Of The Day, Stories, Bells

  "Sylvester Stallone, Klitschko Brothers to Produce 'Rocky' Musical" by Scott Roxborough, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes Rocky work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fighting, Journey, Profound

  "JMS Gives New BEFORE WATCHMEN Details, Defends Project". Interview with Vaneta Rogers, www.newsarama.com. March 17, 2012.

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• March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Basketball, Good Friend, Sheep

  "Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness".

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• As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.

  John Thorn

  Team, Fall, Heart

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• I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.

  Camilo Villegas

  Decision, Special, Mindset

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• It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

  Peter De Vries

  God, Fear, Order

  Mackerel Plaza ch. 1 (1958)

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• Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Men, Hype, Political

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• The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Character, Pieces, Lasts

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 8, 2011.

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• Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

  Roger Waters

  Stars, Wall, Pain

  Song: Each Small Candle

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• When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

  Len Wein

  Writing, Differences, Editors

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.

  Prince William

  Team, Thinking, Balance

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• Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

  Ahmed Yassin

  War, Land, Liberty

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• In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

  Viswanathan Anand

  May, Firsts, Strategy

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• Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.

  Martin Filler

  Jobs, Artist, Winning

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• For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.'

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Google, Add, Pages

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, Military

  Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

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• I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

  Michel Foucault

  Book, Writing, Final Words

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• The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, World, Lasts

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• Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Men, Suffering, Way

  Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Evarts Perkins, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Park Bucker (2000). “To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe--Maxwell Perkins Correspondence”, p.21, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

  Ray Bradbury

  School, Library, Use

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