Lays Quotes - Page 8

• I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

  Dale Evans

  Blessing, Thinking, Bed

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• 'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once.

  Paul Feig

  Fun, Real, Ice Cream

  "Test Marketing a New Term ..." by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2005.

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• When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

  Julian Fellowes

  Siege, Desperate, Hard

  "Jolly good Fellowes". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2004.

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• If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time.

  Michael J. Fox

  Couple, Hard Times, People

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• I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested.

  Michael J. Fox

  People, Vision, Want

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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• With Django Unchained, when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

  Jamie Foxx

  Gymnastics, Django Unchained, Routine

  "Jamie Foxx Talks PROJECT IMAGINAT10N, Playing the President in WHITE HOUSE DOWN, Tarantino’s DJANGO UNCHAINED and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'

  Thomas Frank

  Successful, Simple, Cities

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.110, MIT Press

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• I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

  Morgan Freeman

  Success, Perseverance, Determination

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• Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

  Robert Frost

  Fighting, Hands, Stones

  Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer (1963). “The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. (1. Ed.)”

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• When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.

  Noel Gallagher

  Cheer, Eggs, People

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• There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

  William E. Gladstone

  Loyalty, Freedom, Order

  1879 Speech, West Calder, 27 Nov.

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• If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Stress, Giving

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.184, University of Illinois Press

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• That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Gratitude

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• The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

  Samuel Gompers

  Men, Hands, Voice

  Samuel Gompers (1990). “The Samuel Gompers Papers: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90”, p.313, University of Illinois Press

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• Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Cousin, Brother, Eight

  "'As long as we study life, it will be read': the Selfish Gene turns 40" by Adam Rutherford, May 29, 2016.

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• We promise you that we will not cede a single part of Palestine, we will not cede Jerusalem, we will continue to fight and we will not lay down our arms.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Fighting, Promise, Jerusalem

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• No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.

  Jean Harlow

  Pay, Bills

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

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• Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

  William Hazlitt

  Happiness, Teacher, Attitude

  William Hazlitt (1889). “William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical”

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• A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Life, Philosophical, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.151, eKitap Projesi

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• If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Country, Eggs

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  Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

  Lee Iacocca

  Leadership, Funny Inspirational, Communication

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• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Country, Japan, People

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• Some of the stage outfits I've got are ridiculous. I'll lay out clothes to pack, and it'll look like Polly Pocket clothing - because it's all stretchy, it's tiny. I don't need a case when I tour; I can fit it all in my handbag.

  Jessie J

  Clothes, Pockets, Needs

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

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• My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Dream, Hero

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• Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

  Barbara Jordan

  Food, Anger, Thinking

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