Like You Quotes - Page 37

• Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Teaching, Airplane

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

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• And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

  Michelle Obama

  Hard Work, People, Want

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 25 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.

  Susan Orlean

  Ordinary Days, Feels, Lottery

  "Snow Day" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

  Susan Orlean

  Friendly, Beginnings And Ends, Use

  "Dear Reader" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2010.

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• This sounds like a brag, but I know how to make good fried rice. I learned in college. There are two secrets - take the rice after you cook it and let it get cold in the fridge. Then cook the egg like you're making a fried egg and just before it's done, dump the rice and veg on it and swirl it around.

  Patton Oswalt

  College, Eggs, Two

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• I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.

  Tony Parsons

  Swimming, Thinking, Guy

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• Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Wise, People

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.

  Amanda Peet

  Couple, Airplane, Thinking

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• It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.

  Harvey Pekar

  People, Feel Good, Feels

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• I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

  Liz Phair

  Trying, Living My Life, I Can

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• Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

  Alexander Pope

  Doctors, Doubt, Disagree

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Bathurst' (1733) l. 1

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• I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

  Natalie Portman

  Scared, Seems

  Interview with Jake Gyllenhaal, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2009.

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• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  Natalie Portman

  Want, Actresses, Days Off

  "Natalie Portman says mums "work more than anyone" and admits raising her son is more intense than any role" by Georgina Littlejohn, www.mirror.co.uk. September 30, 2013.

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• I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.

  Lou Reed

  Beautiful, Hip Hop, Important

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• Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Cocky, Georgia, Domes

  Mary Lou Retton, David Bender (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, WaterBrook Press

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• I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.

  Christina Ricci

  Character, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. September 23, 2011.

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• It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.

  Julia Roberts

  Funny, Birthday, Thinking

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• Seeing Shakespeare in the Park, for me, it's just this side of feeling like you've witnessed some kind of magic. It's this spell that you're under, to be part of that!

  Julia Roberts

  Feelings, Magic, Parks

  "Waiting for the Smile". Interview with Sam Kashner and Jessica Diehl, www.vanityfair.com. April, 2012.

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• 'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it.

  Eli Roth

  Forever, Stuff, Nightmare

  "24 Hours Of Horror With Eli Roth". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 24, 2007.

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• It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Long, People

  "Marriage can be right for us all, says Dan Savage. But let's not get carried away with monogamy" by Wyatt Buchanan, www.sfgate.com. October 21, 2005.

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• I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, you're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something. And I eventually went and got a, you know, somewhat of a name for myself and a little bit of a following.

  Jill Scott

  Girlfriend, Reading, Names

  "Jill Scott: Act The Part". "All Things Considered" with Laura Sullivan, www.npr.org. June 18, 2011.

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• I'd been told that when you first put your feet on African ground, you'll be hit by a feeling of overwhelming understanding, like you've returned home and suddenly belong. Quite frankly, I didn't feel that.

  Jill Scott

  Home, Feet, Understanding

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• I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

  Amy Sedaris

  Stupid, Firsts, Problem

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• I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you.

  David Sedaris

  Thinking, People, Policy

  "A life in writing: David Sedaris" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.

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• It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Outsiders, Faces, Phony

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

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