Green Quotes - Page 23

• I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Home, Wine, Mean

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• Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Color, Los Angeles, Said

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• When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

  Sam Mendes

  Black And White, Want, Fields

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• I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate.

  Kristin Davis

  Yoga, Eye, Men

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

  Jack Antonoff

  Growing Up, Father, Thinking

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• I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants.

  Bo Bice

  Song, Writing, Kids

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• After winning the Oscar, I was committed to do 'Fried Green Tomatoes,' but I didn't know what the next thing would be after that. It was a scary time. But the advantage of TV is the regular work. All you need is a hit series, I guess.

  Kathy Bates

  Winning, Scary, Next

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• A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

  Peter Bart

  Light, Decision, Made

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• You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.

  Amy Alcott

  Golf, Average, Practice

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• I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.

  Patrick Carney

  Blue, Six, Shirts

  "The GQA: The Black Keys". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched.

  Gina Carano

  Growing Up, School, Stuff

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• I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

  Hayden Christensen

  Class, Wish, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it?

  Howie Carr

  Blood, Oil, Long

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• Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

  Robert Cailliau

  Character, Color, Perceive

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• Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!

  Casper Van Dien

  Mother, Eye, Color

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• I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.

  Eric Dickerson

  Golf, Talking, Years

  "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

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• What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  People, Thumbs, Shrubs

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• Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant.

  Jonathan Demme

  Athlete, People, Challenges

  "Conversation: Director Jonathan Demme on His New Film and Hero, Carolyn Parker". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

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• All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It's great, I guess. They're just in my face, and one is green and one is blue. It's different, and I'm definitely a proponent of being different in any way you can in life, so I guess if you're born a bit different that's a good thing.

  Alice Eve

  Eye, Blue, Being Different

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• The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

  Idris Elba

  Light, Long, England

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• Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?

  Cee Lo Green

  Speech, Form, Maverick

  "Cee Lo Green Is Fking Outrageous". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 5, 2012.

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• My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.

  Kina Grannis

  Dream, Artist, Musical Genius

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• We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Country, Jobs, Opportunity

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• You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Running, Party, Taken

  "Matt Gonzalez taking his run for mayor in stride / He wants to apply ethics to politics" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. October 22, 2003.

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• A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.

  Ashley Benson

  Cute, New Year, White

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

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