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• A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Garbage Cans, Guy, Punk

  "Green Day: Keeping Their Edge". Book by Matt Doeden (p. 23), 2006.

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• To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

  J. B. Priestley

  Soccer, Men, Two

  Good Companions (1929) bk. 1, ch. 1

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• That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

  Evelyn Waugh

  School, May, Kick Ass

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Decline and Fall”, p.62, Penguin UK

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• As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate a healthy growth and a normal functioning of the academic mind.

  William Allen White

  College, Order, Healthy

  "Student Riots", editorial in "The Emporia (Kansas) Gazette" (April 8, 1932); reported in "Forty Years on Main Street" compiled by Russell H. Fitzgibbon, (p. 331), 1937.

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• I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.

  William Allen White

  Two, People, Giving

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• A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sports, Teamwork, Business

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• If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

  Herbie Mann

  Music, Jazz, Sand

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• Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

  Edward Steichen

  Birthday, Men, Years

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• I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right Stan Musialby his glove and I laugh.

  Rod Carew

  Baseball, Team, Moving

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

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• Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Life, Adversity, Faces

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.184

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• I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that.

  Kurt Russell

  Energy, Take Me

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• When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Games, Bases

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

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• I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

  Larry Hagman

  Years, Age, Tobacco

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• I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

  Jim Harrison

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Surfing, Guilt, Answers

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• I got a kick out of having a big bankroll in my pocket. Even if I only made a couple hundred dollars, I'd always keep it in fives and tens so it'd look big.

  Mickey Cohen

  Couple, Pockets, Dollars

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• But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game

  Richard Krajicek

  Years, Games, Elbows

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• When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

  Margery Allingham

  Thinking, Tea, Sugar

  Margery Allingham (2015). “Dancers In Mourning”, p.285, Random House

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• I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of me doesn't, but once the adrenaline kicks in, I'll probably really enjoy it.

  Martin Gore

  Play, Ideas, Long

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• You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

  Edmund Muskie

  Government, Given

  Speech in South Bend, Indiana, September 11, 1968, as reported by the Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal. p. A3, September 12, 1968.

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• You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do.

  Joan Severance

  Character, Blow, People

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

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• Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.

  Joshua Homme

  Smile, Queens, Dark

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• I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Book, Writing, Done

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• More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

  James Levine

  Mom, Couple, Dad

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• On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

  Will Smith

  Feet, Swim, Holding On

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