Lists Quotes - Page 25

• If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.

  Jeff Bridges

  Okay, Like Me, Hooked

  Interview with Jen Chaney, voices.washingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

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• I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.

  Sandra Bullock

  Mind, Needs, Levels

  "Sandra Bullock: 'I'm Aware That I Can Be Annoying'". Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. October 29, 2009.

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• I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.

  Sandra Bullock

  Order, Levels, Difficult

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• My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

  Julie Burchill

  Friday, Husband, Attitude

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• I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

  David Byrne

  Categories, Breaking Things

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• I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

  John Cleese

  People, Meetings, Seems

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• Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

  Stephen Colbert

  Presidential, Winner, Selling

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• Certainly there are dozens of over-50 actresses who look great: Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Ursula Andress, Stefanie Powers, Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, Joanna Lumley, Linda Gray - the list is endless, and these are just the actresses! I have many friends in their 60s, 70s and 80s, not in the limelight, but who all look absolutely stunning.

  Joan Collins

  Eden, Actresses, Looks

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• I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don't work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment. I like to have information about where I'm going, what might be happening in that particular region as well. I like for people to feel like the show is for them.

  Dane Cook

  People, Trying, Might

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• When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant, and you sort of get a list from her every day, and you do, you know, you run down the list, and it feels very much like a chore.

  Louis C. K.

  Mother, Running, Dad

  "Comedian Louis C.K.: Finding Laughs Post-Divorce". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 7, 2010.

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• Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

  Stockwell Day

  Knights, Groups, Use

  House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.

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• I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Party, Sleep, People

  "The Booming Business of Ellen DeGeneres: From Broke and Banished to Daytime's Top Earner". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 22, 2012.

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• People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Stars, People, Proud

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• To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.

  Junot Diaz

  Accomplishment, Outsiders, Failing

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• No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

  Patty Duke

  Good Luck, Requirements, Matter

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• It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

  Dick Durbin

  Veterans Day, Illinois, Speech

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• Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

  Robert Duvall

  Reading, Army, Names

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• 'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.

  Roger Ebert

  Games, Film, Illusion

  Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.78, University of Chicago Press

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• High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.

  Dave Eggers

  Teacher, Reading, School

  Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Years, Careers

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Cancer, Panic, Firsts

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• Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It's less about trying to prove something or get on somebody's list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That's not the case for me anymore.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Home, Creating, Mad

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• If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality.

  Michael J. Fox

  Kids, Thinking, Parkinson's

  "Michael J Fox: 'Nobody pities me and that's great. I couldn't stand it'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2013.

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• For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Family, Law, Sitting

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• We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.

  Thomas Frank

  Self, Age, Add

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