Four Quotes - Page 9

• Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock.

  Ron Fournier

  Lying, Years, Negativity

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• I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

  Matthew Fox

  Space, Islands, Littles

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• Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes on.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Movie, Summer, Daughter

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

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• And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

  John Frusciante

  Player, Guitar, Years

  Interview with Evan C Chase, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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• I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Sleep, Night, Bed

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• You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

  Judy Garland

  People, Feelings, World

  LIFE magazine, June 2, 1961.

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• The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Crazy, Men, Ideas

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• Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Years, Three, Moments

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• Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Children, Eye, Boys

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• A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

  Jean Genet

  Ghetto, Wind, People

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Taken, Thinking, Years

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• I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Thinking, Years, Europe

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• Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Jobs, Artist, Phones

  "Laurieann Gibson: 'We've Created a New Jerusalem' With Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2011.

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• That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Character, Years, Perspective

  "Leadership Begins With Character" by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2012.

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  Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Inspiring, Photography, Twenties

  "Fictional character: Bruno Forestier". "Le petit soldat", www.imdb.com. 1963.

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• I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Track, Cameras, Video

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• I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for president, two for vice president. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.

  Al Gore

  Race, Years, Two

  "I've no plans to stand for US presidency again, says Gore" by Rob Sharp, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

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• The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.

  Al Gore

  House, Perception, Climate

  "Al Gore: 'The message still has to be about the reality we're facing'". Interview with Brad Plumer, www.washingtonpost.com. September 12, 2011.

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• My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.

  Ellie Goulding

  Thoughtful, Busy, Curious

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

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• I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children.

  Jane Green

  Children, Husband, Grateful

  "Christie Brinkley: Not My American Sweetheart" by Jane Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2008.

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• I did four independent films during the break between 'Twilight' and 'New Moon.' I haven't even really had time to sit back and process it all. But when you do finally sit back and think about it, it's incredible.

  Ashley Greene

  Twilight, Independent, Moon

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• My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.

  Grimes

  Block, Artist, People

  Interview With Durga Chew-bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.

  Matt Groening

  Skin Color, Yellow, Skin Tone

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• I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like 'The Nine Types of Boyfriends,' 'Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,' 'Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,' and other arbitrarily numbered lists.

  Matt Groening

  Love Is, Bed, Twenties

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