Moved Quotes - Page 5

• My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

  Sylvia Earle

  Florida, Parent, Backyards

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• It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.

  Sylvia Earle

  Oil, Long, Size

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• Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid putting some of the noxious materials into the sea. I think people are more aware than they once were, the air is cleaner, water generally is, in spite of the fact that there are more people.

  Sylvia Earle

  Taken, Thinking, Air

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• I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

  Clint Eastwood

  Taken, Break, Advantage

  "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. February 25, 2005.

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• We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

  Roger Ebert

  Wealth, Economic, Chains

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.577, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Past, Trying

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• I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

  Abel Ferrara

  Country, Father, Age

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

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• After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you.

  Tina Fey

  College, Cities, Firsts

  "Funny girl". www.seventeen.com. January 24, 2008.

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• I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

  Jane Fonda

  Empty, Feels, Felt

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• I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

  Lady Gaga

  Nyu, House, Parent

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

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• As a kid I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays and I would walk home at night. For several years I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Summer, Children, Home

  "Neil Gaiman on libraries, Dr Who, fanatical fans and his dreams". Neil Gaiman remarks at the interational book festival in Edinburgh, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer.

  Noel Gallagher

  Crazy, Oasis, Shoes

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• All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Kings, Queens, Native American

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• My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Husband, Israel, Years

  "Leadership Begins With Character". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2012.

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• I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

  Ellie Goulding

  Brother, Guitar, Passionate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.

  Amy Grant

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

  Spalding Gray

  Travel, New York, Moving

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• I grew up in Chicago and was a huge fan of 'The Second City', so when I moved to L.A., I was looking for anything that resembled that... then I started 'The Groundlings', so I went to a show and it was very much like 'Second City'. I was so impressed that that same night I went backstage and I went up to the funniest person there.

  Kathy Griffin

  Night, Cities, Chicago

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• A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.

  Matt Groening

  Moved On, Bedtime, Conan

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• If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

  Thomas Hardy

  Poetry, World, Might

  Thomas Hardy (1998). “Hardy: Selected Poems”, p.200, Penguin

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• All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

  Hunter Hayes

  Nashville, Shapes, Form

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• There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.

  Faith Hill

  Couple, Nashville, Years

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• That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.

  Martina Hingis

  Jealousy, Sports, Athlete

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• True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.

  Homer

  True Friend, Literature, Counterfeit

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• When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

  Bob Hope

  Parent, Actors, Comedy

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