Parades Quotes - Page 12

• War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

  Amy Goodman

  War, Government, Posing

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• LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Gun, Sick, Intellectual

  "Charles Bukowski : Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life". Book by Howard Sounes, 1998.

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• People will try to rain on your parade because they have no parade of their own.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Rain, People, Trying

  Nikita Koloff, Jeffrey Gitomer (2004). “Wrestling with Success: Developing a Championship Mentality”, p.182, John Wiley & Sons

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• The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.

  Ray Bradbury

  Cat, Cutting, Night

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• Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Wise, Addiction, Demand

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• Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

  Christopher Morley

  Order, Literature, Realism

  Christopher Morley “Kitty Foyle”

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• You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”

  Frida Kahlo

  Strong, Heart, Men

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• I'd basically described myself: a quiet, studious bookworm who would go to bed at a decent hour. A non-partier who wouldn't bring a parade of boys through our room, or make it the floor headquarters for beer pong.

  Tammara Webber

  Beer, Boys, Bed

  Tammara Webber (2012). “Easy”, p.33, Penguin UK

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• I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

  Chris Kattan

  Morning, Moving, Cities

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever.

  Orlando Figes

  Nice, Military, War

  Orlando Figes (1997). “A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution”, Viking Pr

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• What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?

  Joe Abercrombie

  Dream, Military, Congratulations

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• In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade.

  Irving Berlin

  Easter, Bonnets, Frills

  Song: Easter Parade 1933

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• I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

  Star Jones

  Wedding, Drama, Want

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• Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Prayer, Greatness

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain, Real, Cutting

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• If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Strong, Cheer

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• While law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming of abusive treatment at factory farms, right-wing hate groups are free to organize, parade, arm themselves to the hilt and murder with chilling regularity. It’s time for our society to confront this very real threat.

  Amy Goodman

  Hate, Real, Home

  FaceBook post by Amy Goodman from Apr 17, 2014

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