Fixers Quotes

• I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.

  Stephan Jenkins

  People, Trying, Misfits

  "He can see clearly now / Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins looks at success, love, creativity" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2003.

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• Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Helping Others, Suffering, Way

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• I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

  Tom Scholz

  Remember, Inventor, Builder

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• There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

  Bernard Malamud

  Book

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I was an empty shell. Like a vacant house―condemned―for months I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front room was in better repair. But that was all―just the one small piece. He deserved better than that―better than a one-room, falling-down fixer-upper. No amount of investment on his part could put me back in working order.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fall, Order, House

  "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.

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• My mom gave me a good piece of advice. She said never marry a man thinking you can change him, and I think that starts from your first date when you're in the seventh grade onwards. Women are fixers so we have to just not fix. Don't fix.

  Jennifer Garner

  Relationship, Mom, Men

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• The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The vitality of the faith is being jeopardized. The lying slogans of the fixers who carry religion like a sword of judgment pile up with impunity. Let ragamuffins everywhere gather as a confessing Church to cry out in protest. Revoke the licenses of religious leaders who falsify the idea of God. Sentence them to three years in solitude with the Bible as their only companion.

  Brennan Manning

  Religious, Confused, Lying

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• I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down house a 'great fixer-upper'. Just once, I'd like them to show me a house and declare, 'This one's a piece of crap'.

  Stephan Pastis

  Running, Real, House

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• All you have to do is take a man at face value. Don't go into it thinking you can change them. Men aren't fixer-uppers, not like a house or a car. You buy them as is.

  Jill Shalvis

  Men, Thinking, Car

  Jill Shalvis, Elle Kennedy (2015). “Time Out & Body Check”, p.9, Harlequin

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• Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

  Paul Keating

  Men, Three, Politician

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• Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself ("se fixer", Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous.

  African Spir

  Men, Soul, Sticks

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 58), 1937.

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• Donald Trump didn't know the [Democratic] vice presidential candidate he was running against: Tim Kaine [Senator] of Virginia, Donald! Not Thomas Kean, Republican [former Governor] of New Jersey, you moron! And his answer to absolutely every question is so simplistic and grand: "Oh, I'll fix it. Trust me. I'm the best fixer. I love to fix!!! Look at everything I've fixed before!!!!".

  Chrissy Teigen

  Running, Virginia, Presidential

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did a brisk business and people were routinely killed for their shoes. But, the constant aspiration of the city never changes.

  Molly Crabapple

  New York, Eye, Cities

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To me a translator is very, very important. If the fixer is also the translator, so much the better. I have known photographers who didn't speak the language and would work in a place for weeks without one, getting by on common sense and smiles. But how many situations did they miss because they couldn't talk to someone and get the back story on details, small daily life things, etc.

  Peter Menzel

  Common Sense, Missing, Important

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• It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.

  Elon Musk

  Space, Mars, Planets

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• If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Too Much, Temples

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• There are so many responsible, nice, kind guys out there. Why marry a fixer-upper?

  Laura Schlessinger

  Nice, Women, Guy

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• Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.

  Jonathan Alter

  Character, Fundraising, Presidential

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• I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind's eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver.

  Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Eye, Mind

  Paul Caponigro (2002). “New England Days”, p.9, David R. Godine Publisher

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• You need to live in a dome initially but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on. ... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

  Elon Musk

  Needs, Looks, Mars

  "Elon Musk on Mars: 'It's a fixer-upper of a planet'". www.cbsnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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