Might Quotes - Page 17

• We must each prepare ourselves for every good work that might come to us and then accept the principle that revelation, not aspiration, is the basis for our respective callings.

  Monte J. Brough

  Principles, Calling, Good Work

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• My theory on Manchester and why it produces the bands it
  does is that because the world is willing to listen to
  them, it gives the kids a confidence and and a belief that
  ...what has happened before might happen again. It's something
  to aim for.

  Jimi Goodwin

  Kids, Giving, Doe

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• I was a high school student like Picasso. I was a little eccentric, but I had high ideals. I wanted to get along well with girl, but when I met them face-to-face, I acted cold toward them. I was always in the art room drawing, I wanted to attract someone's interest. I thought that if I got good at drawing I might be able to establish a connection with the world.

  Usamaru Furuya

  Girl, Art, School

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• I still use the pronoun she for my publicity materials, and for mainstream media stuff, for two reasons: the first is that I do a lot of work in public schools, and I want those young women and girls to see every kind of she there can be. I want them to see my biceps and my shorn hair and shirt and tie and for some of them to see me as a possibilityI want them to see me living outside of the boxes, because they might be asphyxiating in their own box and need to see there is air out here for them to breathe, that all they have to do is lift the lid a little.

  Rae Spoon

  Girl, School, Hair

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• The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.

  Monica Crowley

  Information, Week, Paychecks

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• Let the disappointments pass
  Let the laughter fill your glass
  Let the illusions last until they shatter
  Whatever you might hope to find
  among the thoughts that crowd your mind
  There won't be many that ever really matter.

  Jackson Browne

  Laughter, Disappointment, Glasses

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• The early bird might catch the worm, but I bet it also needs a ton of under eye concealer

  Nicole Richie

  Eye, Bird, Needs

  Twitter post from Jul 08, 2011

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• You can’t take everything on. That’s why when people ask how does this film fit into my oeuvre. I say 'I don’t know. I don’t think in those terms’. If I did, I might become incapacitated by fear . . . How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

  David Fincher

  Thinking, Whales, People

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• They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing we know getting along the birth canal, out in the world. It's pretty basic. Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you'd go in this dusty old place and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that's gone.

  Tom Waits

  Struggle, Book, Discovery

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• I think it's sad when people stop dreaming, or start losing hope. Because holding onto the bonkers dream might just turn out to be the most marvellous thing you ever did.

  Miranda Hart

  Dream, Thinking, People

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• I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Ambition, Careers, People

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

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• I had a long talk with Bruce Springsteen on a rooftop during the Vote for Change tour (in 2004). And it boiled down to this: That guy you used to be, he’s still in the car. He’ll always be in the car. Just don’t let him drive. He might be shouting out directions. But whatever you do, don’t let him get behind the wheel.

  Eddie Vedder

  Long, Car, Guy

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• I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.

  David James

  Beautiful, Remember, Tolerable

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• You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Army, Iraq

  Remarks at town hall meeting, Kuwait, 8 Dec. 2004

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• Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.

  Harold Bloom

  Art, Reading, Sublime

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things about the British Mod movement was that being macho was no longer the only measure of manhood.

  Pete Townshend

  Gay, Men, Rivers

  Pete Townshend (2012). “Pete Townshend: Who I Am”, HarperCollins UK

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• If I ever found a church that didn't believe in knocking all the other churches, I might consider joining it.

  W. C. Fields

  Believe, Church, Joining

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• Roast something for the children that they might eat.

  Ashanti

  Children

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• Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Goal, Getting High, Oneself

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?

  Aldo Leopold

  Realizing, Poor, Masters

  Aldo Leopold, David Earl Brown, Neil B. Carmony (1995). “Aldo Leopold's Southwest”, p.160, UNM Press

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• For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.

  Wendell Berry

  Christian, Want, Accepting

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• Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Today, Dirt, Firsts

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• I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day if I were busy and happy the rest of the time. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.

  Jane Addams

  Sweet, Morning, Believe

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• No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.

  Olive Schreiner

  Character, Men, Trying

  Olive Schreiner (2003). “Dreams”, p.95, A&C Black

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• There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be caused harm. It's called a 'public nuisance.' I wouldn't mind being called that for my life's work.

  Vito Acconci

  Space, People, Track

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