Heavy Quotes - Page 25

• We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Hands, Political

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• A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Baby, Three, Showing Up

  "Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges Talk R.I.P.D., Childhood Memories, On-Set Injuries, Creating Roy the Cowboy, and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.

  Emma Roberts

  Trying, Patterns, Feels

  "Emma Roberts Reveals Her Style Secrets!" by Kelli Acciardo, www.seventeen.com. October 21, 2011.

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• It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Boys, Years

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• I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

  Adam Savage

  Thinking, Suffering, Realization

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• Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.

  Martin Scorsese

  Editing, Shooting, Sometimes

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• I don't do heavy weights at all.

  Maria Sharapova

  Weight, Heavy Weights

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• The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.

  Ariel Sharon

  Reality, Land, Suffering

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• My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'

  Zack Snyder

  Mom, Looks, Heavy Metal

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• Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Time, Blow, Dust

  "Expulsion". Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's letter to the Secretariat of the Soviet Writers' Union (November 12, 1969) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1970.

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• I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.

  Peter Steele

  Inspirational, Softball, Hate

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• I had a trainer during 'Spiderman,' and I discovered I have deep-seated rage when I'm holding heavy weights over my head. Whatever dormant anger I have in me, that's where it comes out. That's not the kind of working out I want to do.

  Emma Stone

  Work Out, Weight, Want

  "Emma Stone:‘I Feel So Fat,” And Other Body-Shaming Comments" by Hanna Brooks Olsen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.

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• We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Impact, People, Fiction

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• Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

  John Sununu

  Growth, Enough Time, Cost

  First Speech by Anne Ruston as representative of South Australia, www.anneruston.com.au. October 10, 2012.

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• I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Weight, Injury, Sprint

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• I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.

  Eddie Vedder

  Water, Salt, Peppers

  Interview with Josh Brolin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2008.

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• There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

  Eddie Vedder

  Beautiful, Trying, Lines

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• I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Running, Thinking, People

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• Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

  Tom Waits

  Awkward, Certain, Involved

  "Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2011.

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• Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, Speak English, People

  "Readers recommend: songs sung with accents" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2015.

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• I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

  Vera Wang

  Want, Way, Bits

  "The Vera Wang Interview: Made of Honor" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

  Kip Winger

  Fun, Guitar, Hands

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• A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom.

  Naomi Wolf

  Organization, Internet Freedom, Grassroots

  "Organising against the enemies of internet freedom" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.

  Zakk Wylde

  Eagles, House, Young

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

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• Before a game, I avoid having a heavy meal so that I don't feel sleepy at the board. You eat to be healthy, and that generally takes care of everything. Also, you can't be too finicky, since at tournaments you tend to eat at restaurants here and there. But, as long as you're eating sensibly, it's all good.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Games, Long, Healthy

  "Q&A: Inside the Mind of the World's Top Chess Player". Interview with Aditi Malhotra, blogs.wsj.com. April 3, 2013.

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