Heavy Quotes - Page 40

• The Montefiores have taken Australia for their own, and there is not a gold field or a sheep run from Tasmania to New South Wales that does not pay them a heavy tribute. They are the real owners of the antipodean continent. What is the good of our being a wealthy nation, if the wealth is all in the hands of German Jews?

  Will Hughes

  Running, Real, Taken

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• I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush me completely. I wasn't Atlas, and the black felt as heavy as a planet; I couldn't shoulder it. All I could do was not be entirely obliterated.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Depression, Crush, Black

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.219, Hachette UK

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• Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Sports, Fun, Husband

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.48, BookBaby

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• Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.

  Karl Marx

  War, Hero, Debt

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• I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.

  Albert Einstein

  Mother, Agony, Bears

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• I am taking a risk with my claycourt schedule. It is pretty heavy from now up until Roland Garros. I am scheduled to have one week off before Paris. Playing here is not as tiring as competing abroad. I wanted to see this tournament happen and now that we have the event, I want to see it grow.

  Juan Carlos Ferrero

  Paris, Risk, Events

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• I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.

  Charles Barkley

  Reading, Drinking, Decided

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• Basically I listen to just about everything except heavy metal.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Heavy Metal, Metals

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

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• When you're depressed, there's no calendar. There are no dates, there's no day, there's no night, there's no seconds, there's no minutes, there's nothing. You're just existing in this cold, murky, ever-heavy atmosphere, like they put you inside a vial of mercury.

  Rod Steiger

  Night, Atmosphere, Calendars

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• They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too heavy or if her nose was too big. I felt like saying to her, 'Just relax and it will all be OK.

  Meryl Streep

  Beautiful, Relax, Noses

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• My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.

  Pauly Shore

  Mom, Careers, Two

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• Granted, not really a joke, but how often do you get a mic in your hand? You know? So. I am sorry but don't anybody trip on my soap box on the way out. Don't anybody trip over that. And the chip on my shoulder's a little heavy. I have back problems now.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Sorry, Hands, Littles

  "Janeane Garofalo". TV Special, August 23, 1997.

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• I've had my ups and downs. My fair share of bumpy roads and heavy winds. That's what made me what I am today.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Wind, Bumpy Roads, Today

  FaceBook post by Jean-Claude Van Damme from Aug 29, 2015

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• Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

  David McCallum

  Creative, Energy, Conformity

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• The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.

  Cary Grant

  Acting, Good Things, Lifting

  Nancy Lynn Nelson, Cary Grant (1991). “Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best”, William Morrow & Company

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• From 18 to 29 I was a heavy smoker, heavy drinker, drug addict, terrible eater and philanderer. The past eight years, since I got sober, have honestly been about trying to peel back each of those habits, to get back to the 12-year-old kid inside who was tremendously excited about life.

  Dax Shepard

  Kids, Past, Eight

  "20 Questions: Dax Shepard". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. September 19, 2012.

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• It's with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can't relocate. I have two babies under 4. Being a mother and wife comes first, and I just cannot uproot my children and separate the family by moving away. I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best.

  Alyssa Milano

  Mother, Baby, Jobs

  "‘Mistresses’ Season 3 Spoilers: 7 Things To Know About Alyssa Milano's Exit Before Premiere". www.ibtimes.com. June 17, 2015.

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• We are always making more and more stuff in the world. You know; big buildings, big planes, big boats and that. Will we ever get to a point where all this is too heavy for the world to handle?

  Karl Pilkington

  World, Stuff, Boat

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• I dont live with people, thats why my relationships last. Im not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand Id say, - no, its not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you.

  Paul O'Grady

  Thank You, Teenager, Hands

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• I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Mean, Responsibility, Men

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 12, 2002.

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• I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area. I think it was from my years of swimming in school when I was a kid and it just overdeveloped my upper body. In fact, when I started modeling, my back was so developed, I could not fit into any dresses.

  Rebecca Romijn

  School, Kids, Swimming

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• It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or as Charlie Sheen calls it: Breakfast.

  Ricky Gervais

  Party, Drinking, Night

  "Emmy Award Winners 2011: Ricky Gervais 'Banned' From Attending" by Luiza Oleszczuk, www.christianpost.com. September 19, 2011.

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• Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

  "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy Album, 2003.

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• My dad was in a fraternity back in the 1950s, and they sound really fun back then. Nowadays they sound like they can get a little heavy-duty in terms of the hazing and the drinking. Im not so much into the idea of being made to do a bunch of insane stuff just so I can have the privilege of hanging around certain people... Thats probably why I was never in a fraternity.

  Luke Wilson

  Fun, Dad, Drinking

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• I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with.

  David Carradine

  Real, Shoulders, Hairstyles

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