Flashy Quotes

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

Dennis Conner

Inspirational, Funny, Running

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Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.

Chad Smith

Hands, Feet, Important

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The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Fred Hoyle

Journey, Men, Air

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I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring.

Katie Holmes

Kind, Boring

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I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

Jack Kevorkian

Clothes, Car, Months

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I`ve always liked Dennis Chambers, he`s real flashy.

Travis Barker

Real, Chamber

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Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

Richard Widmark

Attention, Use, Stones

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We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

Freddie Mercury

Noise, Bigs, Bits

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Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

Ingvar Kamprad

Stay Strong, Luxury, Ikea

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

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The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

Morley Safer

Stars, Interesting, People

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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

Kate Bosworth

Deals, I Can

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Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.

Tony Hsieh

Inspirational, Business, Cocky

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When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.

Jerry Saltz

Art, Moving, Space

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James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so over the top. The cape was probably the biggest part of his persona. He looked like Superman.

Mayer Hawthorne

Mean, Perfect, Example

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Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment.

Ron White

Baseball, Commitment, Simple

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So much depends upon our willingness to make up our minds, collectively and individually, that present levels of performance are not acceptable, either to ourselves or to the Lord. In saying that, I am not calling for flashy, temporary differences in our performance levels, but a quiet resolve to do a better job, to lengthen our stride.

Spencer W. Kimball

Jobs, Differences, Mind

Edward L. Kimball, Spencer W. Kimball (2005). “Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball”, Deseret Book Company

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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

Sam Palladio

Running, Art, Interesting

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In public, I like real conservative clothes, something that's not too flashy. But onstage, I like 'em as flashy as you can get 'em.

Elvis Presley

Real, Clothes, Ems

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If you're wearing a pair of shoes that's a little flashy, then it's important not to be flashy up top and vice versa.

Megyn Kelly

Shoes, Important, Littles

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It's very hard to find men's clothes that do what you want, especially when you go through them as quickly as I do. I need them to be flashy, but I never like to be overdressed. I need to make a statement, but I hate wearing too many clothes.

Mika

Hate, Men, Clothes

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I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I'm not going to do anything that's extra flashy or freakishly athletic.

Jeremy Lin

Thinking, Order, Games

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The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it's sold without warranty. It's flashy, but it's basically junk.

Michael Crichton

Poor Quality, Doors, Media

"Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

Holland Taylor

Strong, Real, Mean

"Holland Taylor stirs things up on 'Two and a Half Men'". Associated Press, www.today.com. August 10, 2004.

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Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students.

James W. Loewen

Eye, Fishing, Adoption

James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.347, The New Press

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I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because I’m not flashy, just flossssy.

Justin Bieber

Black, Diamond, Black Diamonds

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