Over It Quotes - Page 16

• [Calling you a] star is just a trick. It's like a straw man thing. They [people] set you up just to knock you over. It's bull. You avoid it, I avoid it.

  David Crosby

  Stars, Men, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.

  Quentin Crisp

  Boys, Class, Faces

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• News flash, Fern Taylor!" Ambrose barked, slamming his hand against the dashboard, making Fern jump. "Everything has changed! You are beautiful, I am hideous, you don't need me anymore, but I sure as hell need you!""You act like beauty is the only thing that makes us worthy of love," Fern snapped. "I didn't just l-love you because you were beautiful!" She'd said the L word, right out loud, though she'd tripped over it.

  Amy Harmon

  Beautiful, Love You, Hands

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• We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it’s good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary. When we gloss over these truths we unintentionally promote the very stigma we’re trying to combat.

  Katha Pollitt

  Sex, Moving, Motherhood

  "How to Really Defend Planned Parenthood". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2015.

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• When I thought my professional career was over, it hadn't even started yet.

  Ina Garten

  Careers, Professional Career

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• Get a grip, get a life, and get over it.

  Justin Johnson

  Get Over

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• I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I’m not in the mood to, I don’t make myself feel badly over it.

  Samaire Armstrong

  Mood, Feels, Knows

  "10 Fun Fitness Facts With Samaire Armstrong". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2012.

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• Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher traces of wheels and hooves, that once the meaning and even the very idea of a long journey was lost, sleep had not descended over it in one fell swoop: it had continued to steal a march here and there, in a discontinuous way, and over short distances, like a laborer who feels his cart jolt on a section of Roman road that crosses his field.

  Julien Gracq

  Distance, Sleep, Journey

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• The lion's share of the bear market is over, ... It's a two-part issue. Yes, the marketplace could be nasty. But there's a great deal of nastiness that's already happened in the bond market.

  Paul McCulley

  Two, Issues, Nastiness

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• If, you know, all your life you're making films or whatever, and somehow along the way you lose meaning in whatever you're doing when you're making the films, they're just not the same as they used to be to you. That doesn't mean your life is over; it just means maybe go try to live a different life.

  Angel Olsen

  Mean, Trying, Different

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• I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall leave any distinctness at all.

  William James

  Running, Eye, Order

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• If my comrades are not destined to rule the world, then away with it! A shower of atom bombs upon it and in place of its meaningsless chatter about 'love' and 'peace' the voice of the howling wind over its ruins.

  Savitri Devi

  Wind, Voice, Atoms

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• I used to sit in the studio with a copy of the (Saturday Evening) Post laid across my knees ... And then I'd conjure up a picture of myself as a famous illustrator and gloat over it, putting myself in various happy situations, surrounded by admiring females, deferred to by office flunkies at the magazines, wined and dined by the editor.

  Norman Rockwell

  Editors, Office, Magazines

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• Some people are gay. Get over it!

  John Barrowman

  Gay, People, Get Over

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• When any civil government steps outside the mandate authorized by God Almighty, then that government does not have any further claim over its citizens.

  Pat Robertson

  Government, Doe, Citizens

  Pat Robertson (1984). “Answers to 200 of life's most probing questions”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Purpose, Gains, Planning

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• When an engineer has built a bridge, the fact that a cat can pass over the bridge is no proof that the bridge is good. A train must pass over it to prove its strength.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Cat, Bridges, Facts

  Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, David C Cook

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• I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

  Odette Annable

  Girl, Apology, Thinking

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• If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them up and finding different ways of saying the same thing... I get into a spell, and it all comes easy. I don't labor over it. I go inside the song, I think you make yourself an antenna for songs, and songs want to be around you. And then they bring other songs along, and then they're all sitting around, and they're drinkin' your beer, and they're sleeping on the floor. And they are using the phone, they're rude, thankless little f---ers.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Drinking, Sleep

  "Waits In Wonderland". Image Magazine Interview with Rip Rense, December 13, 1992.

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• To will the obligatory in relation to death is to fall in line with the major immutable cycles of Nature, especially human nature, and to understand that (whether or not there is a purpose or meaning to life or a life of the spirit beyond the life of the body) no one, absolutely no one, escapes being finite and mortal. And knowing this, and then to accept it, to will it, and not to be in an unnecessary state of angst or rebellion or terror over it.

  Edwin S. Shneidman

  Fall, Knowing, Purpose

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• Oh yeah - you have to write every day. Or every weekday. Because writing is a job. It's not eureka moments over and over. It's grueling work, panning for gold. You just keep at it and eventually you get a few grains. Or flakes. Or whatever gold looks like in rivers. Or maybe it's like fishing. Who cares? You just have to do it every day because you never know which day is going to be your productive day.

  Tim Schafer

  Jobs, Writing, Fishing

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• Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

  Terence McKenna

  Literature, Grids, Form

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• What happened to me in the Sixties was so major and so worldwide and so huge, there's no way I can repeat it. But in a way, I had nothing to do with it, it just took me over. It was bizarre, it was weird, and I had no control over it. I don't think anyone could have planned what happened to me.

  Twiggy

  Thinking, Way, Bizarre

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• When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.

  Clark Gable

  Farewell, Kissing, Tears

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. But there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... Shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity.

  Terence McKenna

  Running, Technique, Example

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