Shakes Quotes - Page 21

• There was no way I was ever going to get a fair shake. How good could I be? I was Canadian. I wasn't from New York. I wasn't from Vegas. I was born in 1975, not 1917. My last name wasn't Sinatra or Darin or Martin. Early on and often, there was always the comparison. "He's good, but he's no '[fill in the] blank.'

  Michael Buble

  New York, Vegas, Names

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused me to lose my fundamental faith in the values of our parliamentary institutions.

  Jason Kenney

  House, Fundamentals, Dismay

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Getting enough protein is important when I train, to help build muscle and recover, so I'll supplement with protein shakes.

  Conor McGregor

  Important, Helping, Enough

  "Conor McGregor On The Truth In Trash Talk, Custom Suits And His Knitting Circle". Interview with Joel Balsam, www.askmen.com.

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• People already think the entire system is rigged against Donald Trump, and they're right, meaning, the corrupt, rigged system. The elections every four years are just part of that to them. They feel like they can't get a fair shake. It is the essence of the Donald Trump candidacy.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Thinking, Years, Essence

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There was one tour where I thought, "If I can't get this feeling back of being excited to be on the stage, then I will quit." Because I have friends who have dialed it in and I watch their concerts and shake my head. I'm sure the audience can tell, too.

  Dar Williams

  Feelings, Watches, Quitting

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• [Queen Elizabeth] is just the granny queen! She's our granny queen who shakes people's hands!

  Vanessa Kirby

  Queens, Hands, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I believe that people want to be free. And that we face an enemy that murders innocent people to try to shake our psychology to get us to leave.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, People, Psychology

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I'm a big fan of Shake Shack.

  Ansel Elgort

  Fans, Shack, Bigs

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• People weren't meaning to be racist, but they didn't know. Action signals change, not intent. So when someone feels like they're not getting a fair shake, you gotta speak on it.

  Bethann Hardison

  People, Racist, Action

  Source: time.com

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• Why can't it be a curriculum? Why can't it be a life skill that they learn just to look after themselves in terms of a healthy way of eating? I think we need to shake up that whole curriculum and give them a little bit more of a lifestyle early on, before they leave school at 18.

  Gordon Ramsay

  School, Thinking, Skills

  Source: variety.com

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• In Turkey also, for a long time, the military was the decisive force but in the past 10 years they have backed off somewhat and the civilian government has gained more independence and autonomy even to shake up the military command. In fact, it even arrested several high-ranking officers [for interfering in governmental affairs]. Maybe Pakistan can move in a similar direction.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Moving, Past

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• I put out my hand to shake hands with Zero Mostel, and he took my hand [and] he pulled me up to his face, and he gave me a kiss on the lips. And all my nervousness went out the window.

  Gene Wilder

  Zero, Kissing, Hands

  Source: keranews.org

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• Science and religion will meet and shake hands.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hands, Science And Religion

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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• Comfort is everything. You start doing something and you want it to be perfect right away, but most babies are born ugly and then they shake it out and you get beautiful toddlers.

  John Mulaney

  Beautiful, Baby, Perfect

  Source: uproxx.com

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• If I did see a white man who was willing to go to jail or throw himself in front of a car in behalf of the so-called "negro cause," the test that I'd put to him, I'd ask him, "Do you think negro, when Negroes are being attacked they should defend themselves even at the risk of having to kill the one who's attacking them?" If that white man told me, "Yes," I'd shake his hand.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, White Man

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I'd extend an invitation to Lisbeth Salander. She would definitely shake the party up and get it started. I think she is hands down one of the most original, innovative, kickass female fictional characters ever.

  Megan Chance

  Party, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Sometimes people just feel as if we want to try something to see if we can shake things up.

  Barack Obama

  People, Trying, Want

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, Maximos Mansion, Athens, Greece, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

  Annie Besant

  Butterfly, Men, Snakes

  Annie Besant (2016). “Death and After?”, p.15, BookRix

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• Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Fatherhood, Natural, Natural Things

  "'My hands are frozen and my heart races': Andrea Bocelli says crippling stage fright is like an incurable disease" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. February 8, 2013.

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• I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I'm like, 'C'mon, Tiger!'

  Tom Brady

  Guy, Athletic, Woods

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

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• I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.

  Tom Brady

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  "Tom Brady offers style advice to men". www.mirror.co.uk. November 19, 2009.

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• We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Results, Attacking

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• To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

  David Byrne

  Dance, Dancing

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• There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Life, Religion

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• I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

  Mary Cassatt

  Positive, Peace, Fall

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