Machetes Quotes

• The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

  Dave Barry

  Running, Religious, Writing

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.201, Ballantine Books

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• For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Germany, Able, Realizing

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• We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Realizing, Genocide, Can Do

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• I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort.

  Armie Hammer

  Home, School, Islands

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

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• Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, There's a naked person outside!

  Mike Nichols

  Phones, Civilization, Clothes

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• I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.

  Mark Burnett

  Cutting, Guy, Decision

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• If you're doing something new there is always a sense of fear or foreboding, but you're in new ground and you have to get out your machete and cut a new path.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Cutting, Path, Something New

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

  Susan Orlean

  Hiking, Convicts

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• ...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Men, Oil

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• Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.

  Laini Taylor

  Dream, Powerful, Drinking

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• My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Sobriety, Dawn, Vices

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• Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.

  Warsan Shire

  War, Cancer, Apathy

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• Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete.

  Matthew Parris

  Christian, Nike, Doctors

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• Really, while gas is an awful thing to watch - the death is painful - to even watch these deaths - it's also bad to die from a bullet, a hand grenade, or a machete.

  Rand Paul

  Hands, Bullets, Awful

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

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• I’m a bit of a feminist and I carry a machete! I try to be a strong female. I think it’s important. My mum is my idol in life. She’s a very strong woman. I think it’s important for women to be strong and intelligent and hold their own.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Strong Women, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Kaya Scodelario Talks Bonding with the Cast, Fan Reaction to the Film, the End of SKINS, and More on the Set of THE MAZE RUNNER". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 31, 2014.

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• I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then the melody. Playing in the Rock*A*Teens was the first time I ever heard music from the bottom up. I was hearing songs I'd heard a million times on oldies radio, and I'd be like, "Wow, listen to what the bass is doing!" When I was first singing in bands, I'd just get out there with my machete, wildly whacking away at the foliage. But you learn how to listen. When I feel I'm doing it right, it's 90% listening and 10% output. It's not "look what I can do!"

  Kelly Hogan

  Song, Rocks, Nerd

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind.

  Michael Savage

  America, Mind, Reason

  "Media Matters Takes Action on Radical Right Media" by Matthew C.Nisbet, bigthink.com.

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• You've been holding a machete waiting to cut your way through and into the place called Future. You have waited and waited and now this knife has grown dull. But now I am sending angelic hosts to sharpen your weapon and assist in cutting you through. Your tongue has even grown powerless in this last season because your faith and hope have been deferred. But this is NOW! I will put MY Word in your mouth. You will speak with a new vigor. I AM sharpening your tongue. Get ready, for all things are being sharpened. Get ready, for you will now cut and your way will open up.

  Chuck Pierce

  Cutting, Knives, Waiting

  "Chuck Pierce and Keith Miller: 'All Things are Being Sharpened!' AND 'Blaze Miracle Paths Everywhere You Go!'". www.elijahlist.com. May 8, 2010.

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• Some field days can be tough. I've worked inside fuel tanks with 3 foot ceilings, in -42 to +42 Celsius temperatures, in snow and smoke and hail, and I've dug through snow and ice and pavement to find legal evidence. I've worked clear through the night by headlamp, and I've flown in a rickety long-islander with propane tanks strapped into the other seats. I've jury-rigged missing equipment, broken into my own truck, and cut out an emergency helicopter pad with a machete. I've been hungry, cold, tired, lost, injured, and downright hopeless!

  Mark Mason

  Tired, Cutting, Night

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• There is a hollow, holey cylinder running from hilt to point in my machete. When I blow across the mouthpiece in the handle, I make music with my blade. When all the holes are covered, the sound is sad, as rough as rough can be and be called smooth. When all the holes are open, the sound pipes about, bringing to the eye flakes of sun on water, crushed metal. There are twenty holes. And since I've been playing music, I've been called all different kinds of fool - more times than Lobey, which is my name.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Running, Eye, Blow

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• As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.

  Jo Brand

  Nurse, Important, Looks

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• Your mother sounds like a formidable woman," Valek said into the silence. "You have no idea," Leif replied with a sigh. "Well, if she's anything like Yelena, my deepest sympathies," Valek teased. "Hey!" Leif laughed and the tense moment dissipated. Valek handed Leif his machete. "Do you know how to use it?" "Of course. I chopped Yelena's bow into firewood," Leif joked.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Mother, Ideas, Silence

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, MIRA

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• If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... but I guess that's a little too obvious and not villain-y enough. Because that's actually being a superhero. I would break down poverty with my machete; I would end world hunger.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Racism, Superhero, World

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2015.

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• ...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit.

  Mira Grant

  Blood, Survival, Barbie

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• Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Baby, Teacher, Heart

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.186, Ultramarine Publishing

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