Over It Quotes - Page 24

• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  J. G. Ballard

  Running, Dream, America

  Metaphors, No. 7, 1983.

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• I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating.

  Drew Barrymore

  Vegas, Air, Towers

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• If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Fall, Knowing, Dancer

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• Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kiwi, Fruit, Brown

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• The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.

  Chris Brown

  Worst Moments, Care, Crowds

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• I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to get over it. I should have allowed myself to be a little more human and not worry about trying to be a superwoman.

  Sandra Bullock

  Should Have, Worry, Trying

  "Sandra Bullock: My mother raised me not to depend on a man for anything". Interview with Garth Pearce, www.express.co.uk. October 12, 2013.

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• I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Gay, People, Bigs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Ducks, White

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• One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

  Margaret Cho

  Mastery, World, Shows

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• Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mean, Enemy, Threat

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• It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Thinking, Trying, Heartbreaking

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

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• I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

  Cameron Diaz

  Kids, Hair, Jeans

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• I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.

  Mike Ditka

  Winning, Past, Goal

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• After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Dance, Horse

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Football, Knowing

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Ign Sports Interview, www.espn.com. 24 November 2004.

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• I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

  Judy Garland

  Believe, Taken, Ideas

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• Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

  Bill Gates

  Reading, Digital, Fantastic

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• 'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, People, Way

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 22, 2007.

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• I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Want, Praying, Eat Love Pray

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• To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

  William Glasser

  Victim, Passive, Neurotic

  "Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom". Book by William Glasser (p. 75), 1997.

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• In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.

  Jane Goodall

  Struggle, Years, People

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• Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hero, Men, Looks

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

  Cullen Hightower

  Block, Stones, Stumbling

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• I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Insecurity, Doe, Insecurity And Fear

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman: 'I was moody, mercurial... it was all or nothing'". Interview With Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

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• There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  House, Records, Platinum

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