Hundred Quotes - Page 37

• Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical comedians of the silent-era. What we were able to do together is to show all these major influences but make it into our own comedy. We've seen the stereotypical boy-meets-girl story a hundred thousand times…

  J. Robert Spencer

  Girl, Growing Up, Boys

  "J. Robert Spencer: Jersey Boy & Movie Man". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. November 13, 2007.

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• Flint is a city of a hundred thousand that was having a rough go of it even before its water was poisoned by lead. And when the water crisis finally grabbed national headlines this winter, the Democratic presidential candidates noticed. Hillary Clinton sent senior staff to investigate and asked her supporters to donate to a fund for Flint's kids. Bernie Sanders called on Michigan's Republican governor, Rick Snyder, to resign.

  Tamara Keith

  Senior, Kids, Winter

  "Democratic Candidates In Michigan Focus On Flint's Water Crisis". "All things considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 7, 2016.

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• I don't know that it makes any difference whether it's at this time or a hundred years before or a hundred years later. I think always it's a matter of simply listen[ing] to what is going on around you and in your own experience. Try to understand what's happening, or if not to understand it, at least to appreciate the reality of it.

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Reality, Differences

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.

  John Gimlette

  Talking, People, Four

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Jay-Z is a dude that can give you a hundred 'Simpsons' quotes, like, 'What you know about the monorail?'

  Questlove

  Giving, Knows

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• But in the US, when you have two separate cultures, each with its right, each of which has come to exist in this political entity in the last couple hundred years, each feeling like, "I have the right to hold onto my culture," and that's what makes it difficult.

  Michael Emerson

  Couple, Two, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?

  Kelly Reichardt

  Moving, Suvs, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.

  Glenn Branca

  Want, Noise, Guitarist

  Interview with Simon Dasher, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2006.

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• Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this secret that has been going on for more than two hundred years. The intermarriage of the Indian and the African in America, for example, has been constant and thorough. Colin Powell tells us in his autobiography that he is Scotch, Irish, African, Indian, and British, but all we hear is that he is African.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Years, Two, America

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that's going on and they've got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They're a hundred thousand times faster.

  Peter Diamandis

  Gps, Car, World

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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• Music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up.

  Damian Marley

  Sports, Music Is, Gym

  "Nas, Damian Marley Dig For Rap's African Roots". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 13, 2009.

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• Five-hundred years ago people were saying in manuscripts, "Can you believe these kids today?" They were saying that same phrase everyone says now. No one can believe the youth and what they're doing and how culture is going and how it might fall apart.

  Joel McHale

  Believe, Fall, Kids

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a hundred questions about things, and really get in there and examine it.

  Clive Owen

  Actors, Scripts, Notes

  Source: collider.com

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• We also don't always know what we want. And in those cases it can actually make us worse off because it's actually easier to figure out what you want and to figure out how the options differ if you have about a handful of them than if you have a hundred of them.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Want, Easier, Figures

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I was never a hundred percent comfortable with the women I was hanging with because I was afraid they'd find out that I'm still the same person I was in junior high. With Idina, I didn't have to be ashamed of the nerd inside that came out.

  Taye Diggs

  Nerd, Juniors, Junior High

  Source: www.elle.com

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• SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

  Carl Andre

  Fire, Acres, Soho

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As long as you're worrying about losing what you got, you'll never be able to see that what's out there waiting for you is a hundred times better.

  Don Ward

  Positive Thinking, Long, Worry

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• A moment of kindness can produce a mood of harmony between heaven and earth. Purity of heart can leave a fine example for a hundred generations.

  Zicheng Hong

  Kindness, Heart, Heaven

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• Polish what you polish until it is like gold that has been refined a hundred times; anything that is done in a hurry is not deeply developed. Do what you do like a thousand-pound catapult; one who pops off too easily does not accomplish much.

  Zicheng Hong

  Taoism, Gold, Doe

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• At dusk the sunset is beautifully bright; at year's end the tangerines are even more fragrant. Therefore, at the end of their road, in their later years, enlightened people should be a hundred times more vital in spirit.

  Zicheng Hong

  Sunset, Years, People

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• Mr. Hillaire Belloc has pointed out that science has changed greatly, and for the worse, since it became popular. Some hundred years ago, or more, only very unusual, highly original spirits were attracted to science at all; scientific work was therefore carried out by men of exceptional intelligence. Now, scientists are turned out by mass production in our universities.

  Anthony Standen

  Change, Science, Men

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• One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Opportunity, Bridges, Missing

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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• There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier. We just didn't know about them. And then when they were discovered in the atmosphere, the idea that this is a material that would breathe in and exhale and becomes part of us for a while made it even more intriguing. The names, the Greek names, are interesting, too - if you translate neon, xenon and so forth are kind of interesting.

  Robert Barry

  Xenon, Years, Names

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. If my brother gets hit by a car tomorrow, my sister-in-law will go on living materially in the same way that she does now. If the same thing happens to me, a great deal of what I have will go off to the taxman. That's because of one of, as you doubtless know, eleven hundred federal laws that favor marriage.

  Andrew Solomon

  Brother, Gay, Sister In Law

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Mother, Children, Yesterday

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

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