Handful Quotes - Page 15

• I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

  Hugh Howey

  Imagination, Fans, Pennies

  "Hugh Howey Interview Part 1: Science Fiction, Indie Writing, and Success". Interview with Erik Wecks, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I'm sure a handful of people can relate to that experience of having some kind of romantic encounter - the event of love - which they just can't shake. They take it with them, despite their own desire, and it continually haunts them, and there's nothing to be done about it. That's a true rarity.

  John Maus

  People, Desire, Encounters

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a handful of commentators who admit to their own set of biases.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Night, Men, News

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.

  Jessie J

  Hurt, Pain, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.

  Coventry Patmore

  Promise, Barns, Wheat

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand and later, with time, by all men.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Heaven, Earth

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.60, Vintage

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• You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world.

  Nas

  Artist, Guy, Change Is Good

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2006.

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• So we keep asking, over and over,Until a handful of earthStops our mouths -But is that an answer?

  Heinrich Heine

  Asking, Answers, Mouths

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• Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation.

  Michael Ayrton

  Art, Metaphor, Depiction

  Michael Ayrton (1971). “The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts”

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• Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Bread, Earth

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”, Library of America

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• I would still like to go up in the space shuttle. It's appalling that the accident happened, but it was an accident and obviously if I knew there was any risk, I'd be foolish to do it. I'd love to stand outside the Earth and look at it. Extraordinary feeling that, something that we've been tied to for millions of years, and a handful of people have looked at it, to be able to do that would be stunning.

  Colin Baker

  Years, Space, People

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

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• Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Powerful, Numbers, Oligarchy

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• Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

  Barack Obama

  Hero, Men, Shapes

  "Hundreds remember Ebony founder Johnson". www.today.com. August 15, 2005.

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• Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.

  Steve Jobs

  Simple, Thinking, Worry

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• I had been on another procedural show, 'Cold Case,' for seven years, and I certainly respected the legacy of 'Law & Order,' even though I had only seen a handful of episodes. Being a dad meant the reality was that I probably knew more about Dora and Diego. But I saw the show with fresh eyes, and I wasn't coming in with a bunch of baggage.

  Danny Pino

  Dad, Eye, Reality

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• I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on.

  Zayn Malik

  Kids, House, Used

  "One Direction's Zayn Malik: 'I was a handful as a child'" by Rebecca Davies, www.digitalspy.com. September 18, 2011.

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• I have a handful of tattoos that I really want to put on people that I can't find anyone to let me give them to.

  Jemima Kirke

  Tattoo, People, Giving

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

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• I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.

  Jimmie Johnson

  President, Bills, Clinton

  "Jimmie Johnson Interview: Respect Is The Thing I Want The Most". Interview with Jeff Gluck, www.sbnation.com. September 14, 2011.

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• Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everybody sort of got a piece. Well now there's a handful now.

  Sharon Gless

  Running, People, Pieces

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• But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.

  Jonah Goldberg

  School, Unique, College

  "Do Liberals Live Under A 'Tyranny Of Cliches'?". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2012.

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  There ain't no troubles that we can't rise above, with a handful of faith and a heartful of love.

  Tim McGraw

  Inspirational, Trouble, Rise Above

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• Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom sizes in the government schools. Republican politicians want to solve the crisis by taking more of your money to provide vouchers to a handful of the poorest students in each area, paying for a part of the tuition expense at private schools. But before long this 'reform' would make those private schools indistinguishable from the government schools ... Vouchers are an excellent way for the government to increase control over private schools.

  Harry Browne

  School, Poor Education, Government

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• I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee.

  Edward Dmytryk

  Party, Long, People

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• In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.

  Cat Cora

  Boys, Night, Goes On

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• Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right'.

  Max Greenfield

  Nice, Ideas, Sometimes

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

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