Quoting Quotes

• quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking.

  Gregory Maguire

  Thinking, People, World

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• Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.

  Roger Ebert

  Two, Grace, Vision

  "Pearl Harbor" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. May 25, 2001.

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• Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Real, People

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• Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Grateful, Thinking, Care

  Jennifer Weiner (2013). “Good Men: An eShort Story”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Disappointment, Expectations, Plant

  Interview with Cathi Hanauer, www.elle.com. March 23, 2009.

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• [quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

  Joseph J. Ellis

  Genius, Constitution, Idiot

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• Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Nuclear, Gita, World

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• Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that.

  Johnny Depp

  Kids, Two, Alcohol

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• Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Smart, People

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• It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

  Robert Plant

  Past, Pointing, Your Past

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• Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Men, Inevitability Of Death

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• Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dragons, Evil, Dungeons

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

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• Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

  James Mangold

  Dvds, Trouble, Filmmaker

  Source: collider.com

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• I had this perverse gravitation towards using a terrible cliché sandwiched in between absurd non-clichés because I thought it gave the cliché a new resonance. It kills me when my lyrics are misquoted, but as long as people are quoting them right, I don't care what anybody has to say about them.

  Paul Banks

  Long, People, Care

  "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I find it truly appalling that there are people in the world like you. You are a disgusting, vile, repulsive, repugnant, foul creature. Because of you, I don't believe in God anymore. No just God would allow someone like you to exist. (Quoting feedback from a reader)

  Tucker Max

  Believe, People, World

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• I don't know Beyoncé, but I have the impression that she's sincere, that she really is a feminist and wanted to put the word out there to make it a good word in a big way by putting it in big letters on the stage, and especially because she was quoting the African novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who said, "We should all be feminists." She's a very accomplished and important novelist.

  Gloria Steinem

  Feminist, Important, Sincere

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm kind of quoting Thurston [Moore] and Kim [Gordon] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the ones who said it to me.

  Michael Stipe

  Kim, Kind, Said

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.

  Neil Gaiman

  Details, Speech, Patterns

  "Ask the Author Live:Dana Goodyear with Neil Gaiman". www.newyorker.com. January 15, 2010.

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• I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.

  Michael Reagan

  Tired, Littles

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• People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Please Me, People, Shows

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

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• But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.

  Yossi Klein Halevi

  Religious, Essentials, Doe

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• It's just, people recognize you for your work, you know? They love you for your work, and they judge you for your work. It's awesome to have people quoting you. I love it.

  Tracy Morgan

  Love You, People, Judging

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 17, 2008.

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• Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context.

  Bill Maher

  Media, Mouths, Littles

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• Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.

  Peter Behrens

  Wise, Witty, Thinking

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• Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

  Bill Vaughan

  House, Gentleman, President

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