Guts Quotes - Page 33

• I gut check my show. I say, I say, "Gut, gut, does that feel true to you?" And Gut says, "Yes it does, Stephen. Let's get a grilled cheese sandwich."

  Stephen Colbert

  Cheese Sandwiches, Doe, Grilled Cheese

  "Stephen Colbert tells Jake Tapper: "I Gut Check My Show". "The Colbert Report" with Stephen Colbert, www.poynter.org. April 15, 2010.

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• GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply work harder than the next guy or gal.

  Linda Kaplan Thaler

  Hard Work, Optimistic, Focus

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• That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.

  Cassandra Clare

  Funny, Daughter, Hate

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• Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.

  John Updike

  Wickedness, Hard

  John Updike (1984). “The witches of Eastwick”, Fawcett

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• I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack

  Tana French

  People, Knack, Talent

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• I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.

  Banksy

  Believe, Thinking, Justice

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• On Valentine's Day, the Spirit Club plastered the school with red streamersand pink balloons and red and pink hearts. It looked like Clifford the Big Red Dog ate a flock of flamigoes and then barfed his guts up.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Dog, Valentine, School

  Carolyn Mackler (2011). “Vegan Virgin Valentine”, p.82, Candlewick Press

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• There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dream, People, Acting

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• I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

  Haruki Murakami

  Might, Talent, Instinct

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.77, Random House

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• If your skin is crawling, pay attention. If something doesn’t feel right, pay attention. If the hairs on the back of your neck prickle, if your gut clenches up, if a wave of wrongness washes over you, if your heart starts beating faster, pay, pay, pay attention. Do not second-guess yourself or rationalize anything that impedes your safety. Our instincts are the animal inside of our humanness, warning us of danger.

  Inga Muscio

  Heart, Animal, Hair

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• Something in my gut twisted so hard that it felt like I was being tickled by an invisible hand, and it took me a moment to realize what it was. Hope. It had been so long since I'd felt it that the sensation was like something living inside me, something wonderful waiting to break free, just like I was.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Long

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• When you write from your gut and let the stuff stay flawed and don't let anybody tell you to make it better, it can end up looking like nothing else.

  Louis C. K.

  Writing, Thinking, Laughing

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. June 20, 2011.

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• People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.

  Susan Jaffe

  Dance, Cutting, Blood

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• If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth.

  Erin Brockovich

  Inspirational, Truth, Heart

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• A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he quietly endures the insult or responds with great humility, he weakens the serpent and lessens its hold. But if he replies acrimoniously or brazenly, he gives it strength to pour its venom into his heart and to feed mercilessly on his guts. In this way the serpent becomes increasingly powerful; it destroys his soul's strength and his attempts to set himself right, compelling him to live for sin and to be completely dead to righteousness.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Powerful, Freedom, Heart

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• Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place in which you can listen to the voice of the One who calls you the beloved. To pray is to listen to the One who calls you 'my beloved daughter,' 'my beloved son,' 'my beloved child.' To pray is to let that voice speak to the center of your being, to your guts, and let that voice resound in your whole being.

  Henri Nouwen

  Daughter, Prayer, Children

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• I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Hope, Integrity

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• Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't.

  Mike Ditka

  Motivation, Wrestling, Pride

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• Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Society, Politics, Gravel

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• I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.

  William S. Burroughs

  Positive, Hate, People

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• I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. So I've always said 'yes' to the thing I'm most scared about. The fear of letting myself down - of saying 'no' to something that I was afraid of and then sitting in my room later going, 'I wish I'd had the guts to say this or that' - that galvanizes me more than anything.

  Hugh Jackman

  People, Wish, Sitting

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

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• A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Artist, Bravery, Mind

  "Alexander Skarsgård: Interview with a vampire". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Now is the time for guts and guile.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Guile

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• Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion

  Burt Lancaster

  Sports, Champion, Feelings

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