Like Something Quotes - Page 12

• If you don't like something don't do it, and if you're doing something then you better like it. It is as simple as that.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Simple, Ifs

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• Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

  Samantha Morton

  Dream, Looks, Want

  "Young, gifted and gabby" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2000.

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• Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch of spice. She said no one cared about boring people, and when they died, they were forgotten, like something that slips behind the dresser.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Grateful, People, Spices

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.33, Penguin

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• Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

  Carrie Fisher

  Waiting, Looks, Done

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• Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.

  Tom Bodett

  Sarcasm, Insulting, Sound

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• If I like something, I get it and I put it on.

  Liam Gallagher

  Ifs

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• The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

  Helen Dunmore

  Powerful, Stories, Longing

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• It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Moving, Writing

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, October 13, 2011.

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• What's that?" "It looks like something from Linus... It is! He sent me a little birch-bark canoe from camp! He said he made it himself... Sometimes I think I don't deserve a nice brother like Linus..." "I have often thought the same thing." "Dear Linus, please send me another canoe. The first one broke when I threw it at Charlie Brown.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Brother, Nice, Thinking

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• People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.

  Conor Oberst

  Artist, Thinking, People

  "Conor Oberst and his Bright Eyes". Interview with Karl Smith, www.dazeddigital.com. February 25, 2011.

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• What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. ... Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Hangover, Looks

  Berenice Abbott (1944). “A guide to better photography”

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• There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Riding, Equestrian

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

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• I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you're not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms.

  David Letterman

  Football, Halloween, Miami Dolphins

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• Broke my femur on a cruise with my wife in Italy. I'd walked back to my cabin after dinner with half a plate of spaghetti when I leaned in to open the door. Turns out it was already open, so I fell flat on my face like something from the Keystone Kops.

  Art Donovan

  Doors, Wife, Half

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• The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.

  Margaret Whiting

  Believe, People, Sound

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• When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don't like something. And it's not going to be something that's really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; it's going to be something small.

  Peg Bracken

  Funny Things, People, Able

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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• Id never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.

  Nicky Whelan

  School, America, Sound

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• I don't mind opinions, because you like something or you don't like something, but to say things about your personal life? I'm like, "Man, let me quit reading this. 'Cause I'll stab everybody."

  Andre Benjamin

  Reading, Men, Mind

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• There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Television, Theater, Critics

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I always loved comedy, but it never seemed like something that I could do professionally.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Comedy

  Interview with David Dean, www.serialoptimist.com. July 11, 2013.

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• Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

  Larry Niven

  Treats

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.363, Macmillan

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• One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

  Norton Juster

  Kids, Want, Problem

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• In this busy modernized age, it's easy to be blind to the light all around us. You see, there truly are real angels living among us that look just like you and I. If you pay attention, you can spot one because they're quite easy to find. They're the souls with the eternally deep eyes that always act like something is broken inside, but fail to realize it's just their wings.

  Suzy Kassem

  Real, Eye, Angel

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• When you like something, you should do it all night long.

  Chavela Vargas

  Night, Long, Should

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• When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Character, People, Photographer

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