Guts Quotes - Page 38

• Putin needs to understand and feel in his gut that if the Chechens get a nuclear bomb, they're going to Moscow first, they're not coming to New York.

  Graham T. Allison

  Nuclear Bomb

  "The Ultimate (Preventable) Catastrophe". Interview With Nonna Gorilovskaya, www.motherjones.com. October 18, 2004.

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• You're not really going to know what a place is like 'til you've lived there a few years - you sort of just have to go with your gut.

  John Darnielle

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I tell young people: If you make a job choice on the basis of something other than your nose or your gut, it's unlikely to work out.... It's perilous to look ahead and be like, "I'd like to be ambassador." I would never have gone to Bosnia or spent years writing about genocide. Do it on the basis of what you can learn.... It's like falling in love. Your whole dating life, you're thinking, On the one hand, on the other hand. Then you meet the right guy, and you're not in list-making mode; you're just with the person you're supposed to be with. Jobs are like that too.

  Samantha Power

  Falling In Love, Love You, Writing

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• In business, you take a swing and you hope that you hit a home run, but sometimes you strike out. Strikeouts and failures are important. Being down, getting punched in the gut every once in a while by life and coming back up, that's accomplishment.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Running, Home, Accomplishment

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• This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

  Alexander Payne

  Good Movie, Instinct

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• There are fewer media writers in traditional settings. That is a beat that many legacy brands cannot afford. On the other hand technology writers are writing about media in ways they didn't before. As a consequence of the shift, there is less interest in many ways in the activities at some media. If you look at coverage of media as whole, the decision-making at the three broadcast networks and the cable channels, for instance, is much less of a focus than it once was. The guts of what goes on at Fox or CNN or MSNBC probably has less impact than it once did. It certainly gets less attention.

  Tom Rosenstiel

  Writing, Technology, Focus

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• In the last three years of racing I've met as many women fans as men fans, and in NASCAR it's the same thing. My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.

  Tim Allen

  Men, Years, Differences

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• I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, law school will always be there. I was in no hurry to get right into that.

  Alec Baldwin

  Senior, School, College

  "Baldwin on the Brink". Interview with Charles Kaiser, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1989.

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• I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I still struggle with it. But I really... I can't be moved. You can't move me, and that all comes with loving myself, and I'm like my best buddy.

  Mary J. Blige

  Struggle, Moving, Who I Am

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• The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Sadness, Views, World

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• I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

  Graydon Carter

  Editing, Research

  "Graydon Carter: Literati? Glitterati? I'd rather have a quiet night in with the missus". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2009.

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• I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I've got to consider how it's going to affect people. How it's going to affect me, as well. Because it's like a cycle.

  Eric Clapton

  Real, People, Needs

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• The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.

  Eric Clapton

  Guitar, Grandparent, Buying

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• I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, People, Leader

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• I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know?

  Louis C. K.

  Feelings, Cracks, Enabling

  "Louis C.K. on eating pressure and providing an alternative to The Man". Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. July 5, 2012.

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• I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Magic, Records

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• They have no idea that it can be done by a bus driver, a field hand, or a fry cook. They have no idea where it comes from. It comes from pain, damnation and impossibility. The blow to the soul of the gut. It comes from getting burned and seared and slugged. It comes from...new and awful places and the same old places.

  Charles Bukowski

  Pain, Blow, Hands

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• That was the goth stage, where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention my hairstyle. (pause) But then she slammed a door handle into my gut. And when a girl does that to a boy, it means she likes him.

  Lisa McMann

  Girl, Dream, Mean

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his skin with razors and broken glass. Oskan wanted to scream, but his vocal cords had burned away. He was desperate for water and he could hear it dripping all around him, but his charred tongue found nothing in his mouth but blisters and scorched flesh. For hours he lay on the ropes of the low bed, unable to move, the pressure of the hemp on his destroyed skin sending new agonies deep into his body.

  Stuart Hill

  Pain, Moving, Glasses

  Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark”, p.352, Scholastic Inc.

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• Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own - with whatever guts you can muster

  Haruki Murakami

  Fun, Long, Curiosity

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, books.google.ru. October 10, 2011.

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• The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.

  Keith Ablow

  Holes, Irrational

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• Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.

  Shannon Hale

  Mind, Truth Is, Agree

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• But lately, when I’m drunk, I feel a hostility that I’ve never known before. It is a tension deep in my gut that makes me want to yell until my face is red, knock over glasses with the back of my hand, and kick people I don’t know in the shins.

  Koren Zailckas

  Glasses, Hands, People

  Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.156, Penguin

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• The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Impact, Doe

  Lawrence Durrell (1952). “Key to modern poetry”

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• If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

  Jojo Moyes

  Writing, Emotional, Keys

  FaceBook post by Jojo Moyes from Aug 07, 2014

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