Props Quotes - Page 3

• I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Voice, Comedy, Comic

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

  Deborah Tall

  Nature, Vacation, Play

  Deborah Tall (1993). “From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”

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• I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio got the prop department to make a little pie wagon and they filled it with tarts. I wheeled it around the set and sold them to the crew. I was about eight years old. I always sold out and I didn't have to pay for them. It was a great deal.

  Shirley Temple

  Eight, Years, Pie

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• Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.

  William Wordsworth

  Glory, Infirmity, Boast

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 2, l. 211

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• American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

  Zach Galifianakis

  People, American Society

  "Megan Fox". Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.

  Lou Reed

  People, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: The Power of Positive Drinking, Album: Growing Up in Public

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• I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

  Adam Garcia

  Clothes, Memento, Chairs

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• When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Topics, Debate, Hypothesis

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• Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.

  David O. Selznick

  Blow, Wind, Pyramids

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• I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.

  Mark Cuban

  Jobs, Cutting, Government

  "MARK CUBAN: The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do". www.businessinsider.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.

  Will Gluck

  Character, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a big prop actor.

  Nathan Fillion

  Actors, Bigs

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Tradition is a prop for social security.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Tradition, Social, Security

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• Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But no matter how controlled the mobilization of instinctual energy may be (it sometimes amounts to a scientific management of libido), no matter how much it may serve as a prop for the status quo - it is also gratifying to the managed individuals, just as racing the outboard motor, pushing the power lawn mower, and speeding the automobile are fun.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Fun, Racing, Progress

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 75), 1964.

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• The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.

  George H. Smith

  Negative, Utterance, Way

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• Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing there trembling? Whatever they call it, it leaps over anything, takes the biggest chair, the largest slice, rules the ground wherever it walks, from a mansion to a swamp, and its selfishness is its beauty.... People with no imagination feed it with sex -- the clown of love. They don't know the real kinds, the better kinds, where losses are cut and everybody benefits. It takes a certain intelligence to love like that -- softly, without props.

  Toni Morrison

  Love, Sex, Couple

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• There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame enthusiasm, to suppress curiosity, and, in short, to whittle immortal souls into serviceable props of the established order.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Order, Imagination, Soul

  Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The Progress of a Biographer”

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• Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props.

  Timothy Leary

  Wise, Religious, Expression

  "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out". Book by Timothy Leary, 1999.

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• June Cleaver didn't keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it.

  Barbara Billingsley

  Men, June, Order

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

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• We had an electronic head and arm for Threepio, and I manipulated the mechanism with a joystick. But it wasn't working. The propman said, 'Give me fifteen minutes.' We all went to get coffee, and when we came back, Threepio's head turned perfectly and his arm moved naturally. I looked up and realized that the prop man had a fishing pole with a fine nylon string attached to Threepio's arm. He had rigged another string around the head, which Chewbacca was holding. As Chewie moved his hands, Threepio's head turned!

  Irvin Kershner

  Coffee, Men, Hands

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• God is Godless. God is an idea that we have, another construct, a prop, which doesn't suggest that God doesn't exist. God is existence. But your idea of God and existence are two different things at the moment.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Ideas, Two

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• "It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Impossible, Given

  "Ludwig Wittgenstein : The Duty of Genius". Book by Ray Monk, 1990.

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• Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Independence, Mediocrity, Intolerance

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• The early 20th Century was probably the high tide of global white supremacy - I'm going to call it that because that's how people thought of it - and to be specific, Anglo-Saxon supremacy: The idea that white Anglo-Saxon Protestants were at the top of the world, representing the highest achievement possible for all of humanity, with Darwin's theories being used to prop up this belief.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Ideas, White, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A lot of share-buying, not bargain-seeking, is designed to prop stock prices up. Thirty to 40 years ago, it was very profitable to look at companies that were aggressively buying their own shares. They were motivated simply to buy below what it was worth.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Looks, Buying

  "Berkshire Behind the Scenes: Part 3". Interview with Rick Casterline, www.fool.com. May 30, 2006.

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