Forget It Quotes - Page 14

• No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

  Red Skelton

  Happiness, Laughter, Heartache

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• Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We all complain about stuff. But... how do I put this poetically? Once it's the roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint, forget it. Once the adrenaline kicks in and your chest expands, you forget about all that.

  Gene Simmons

  Pain, Rainy Day, Smell

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• Gay guys know how to craft, and they craft really well. Straight guys, forget it.

  Amy Sedaris

  Gay, Guy, Crafts

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2010.

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• I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.

  Dan Savage

  Valentines Day, Exercise, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 08, 2006.

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• I love finding new talent, to be completely honest, and my opportunity that I got to do 'X Factor U.K.' was just incredible. I will never forget it.

  Kelly Rowland

  Opportunity, Honest, Talent

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• People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Dad, Oklahoma, Games

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• There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Creating, Hey

  "Yoko Ono On Lennon, Love, Feminism, And Japan". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 22, 2011.

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• If you're an unattractive girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you're angry all the time.

  Stevie Nicks

  Beautiful, Girl, Trying

  "Nick of Time: Q&A With Stevie Nicks". Interview with Jacob Bernstein, wwd.com. March 31, 2009.

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• Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

  Stan Musial

  Swimming, Hitting, Never Forget

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• We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Rubbish, Forget, Drink

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• I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because...we are just getting started.

  Walt Disney

  Mean, Dresses, Rehearsal

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• A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb.

  Betty Smith

  Heart, Compassion, Two

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.

  E. M. Forster

  Blessed, Past, Long

  "Maurice". Book by E. M. Forster, part two, 1971.

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• When people felt pain time and time again, they came to fear that pain above all other things. So they tried to ignore it, to forget it was happening, as a way of bearing it. And pretty soon, they would come to feel like they'd accomplished something just by doing that -- even though nothing had changed.

  Fuyumi Ono

  Pain, People, Way

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• Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Apologizing, Forget

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.

  David Baldacci

  Running, Appreciation, Writing

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• I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sleep, Forever, Forget

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.179, Penguin

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• I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Tired, Tonight

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Moving, Blow, People

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• You're special. I'm special. The whole world's special, so don't you forget it. The universe wants us All to be happy, Full of smiles and all that stuff, All that stuff That's happy and smiley. So get happy, happy, happy right now! Get happy, happy, happy right now! Get happy, happy, happy right now!

  Libba Bray

  Special, World, Want

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• Do you forget that I am your sister?” “No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.

  Georgette Heyer

  Opportunity, Forget, Granted

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Frederica”, p.8, Random House

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• They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves. Most vampire never realize how pointless and savage war truly is. You were smart enough to see through the truth. Don't ever forget it.

  Darren Shan

  Brother, War, Smart

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• It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments.

  Susan Sontag

  Loneliness, Violence, Sides

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• Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.

  Mary Oliver

  Love Yourself, World, Special Education

  Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves. Because they have no memory . . . because they are not human.

  Herman Melville

  Memories, Son, Past

  Herman Melville (1856). “The Piazza Tales”, p.267

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