Joints Quotes

• The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Knows, Observers, Products

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• I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.

  Cilla Black

  Enjoy, Joint Efforts, Smoke

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• I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money.

  Mickey Cohen

  Guy, Style, World

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• I want to keep fighting because it's the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.

  George Foreman

  Fighting, Boxing, Hamburgers

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• The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Friendship, Doe, Amnesty

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• You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Kids, Years, Two

  "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2003.

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• Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Benefits, Sides

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1974). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kids, White Privilege, Racism

  "Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama". Interview with Mike Stivers, www.truth-out.org. April 24, 2013.

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• You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Stars, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

  Douglas Sirk

  Meaningful, Promise, Rotten

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• I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

  Lee Majors

  Believe, Thinking, Aggravation

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• I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up.

  Ron Perlman

  Thinking, Humanity, Roles

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

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• Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

  Sue Townsend

  Love Is, Fighting On, Boxing

  Sue Townsend (2013). “Townsend Plays: 1: Secret Diary of Adrian Mole; Womberang; Bazaar and Rummage; Groping for Words; Great Celestial Cow”, p.321, A&C Black

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• Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

  Walter Benjamin

  Oil, Doe, Machines

  Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings, Edmund Jephcott (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.21, Harvard University Press

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• And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadnt taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.

  David Blunkett

  Taken, Thinking, Would Be

  "Interview with British Home Secretary David Blunkett". "CNN Live on Location" with Judy Wiidruff, www.cnn.com. April 3, 2003.

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• The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.

  John Bruton

  Europe, Creating, Common

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• I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week.

  Claudio Reyna

  Sports, Hurt, Next Week

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• A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.

  Johannes Rau

  Rights, Years, People

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• After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

  Lawrence Klein

  Country, Japan, East

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• As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

  Warwick Davis

  Average, People, Suffering

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• The time is out of joint.

  William Shakespeare

  Time

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 188

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• The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.

  William Shakespeare

  Elephants, Legs, Courtesy

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

  Lance Armstrong

  Pain, Marathon, Muscles

  Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2008.

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• There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

  Mark Twain

  Queens, Hands, Gone

  Following the Equator ch. 24, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.

  Hari Kunzru

  Phones, Two, People

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