Shots Quotes - Page 34

• Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.

  Billy Joel

  Children, Men, Flags

  Song: Allentown, Album: The Nylon Curtain, 1982

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• Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Powerful, Broken, Stronger

  Eugene J. McCarthy (2004). “Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life”, p.15, Fulcrum Publishing

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• I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Pain, Order, Suffering

  "Testimony" by Dmitri Shostakovich, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, New York: Limelight, (p. 155), 2004.

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• In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

  Lennart Meri

  Past, Hunters, Film

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• This "knowing what to do"... is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand... The one who "knows what to do" is the one on whom you can rely to make the best shot at success, whenever success is possible.

  Roger Scruton

  Hands, Knowing, Purpose

  Roger Scruton (2007). “Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged”, p.35, Encounter Books

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• [I'll be the first one of the Smith to die.] I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths.

  Steven Morrissey

  Firsts, Dies, Exes

  "GQ" Magazine, (p. 278), October 2005.

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• All I knew about shot putting was that my [older] brother could do 44 feet. I decided I wanted to beat him. . . . So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.

  Bruce Bennett

  Brother, Feet, Mind

  "Film Star and Olympian Herman Brix" by Adam Bernstein, www.washingtonpost.com. February 28, 2007.

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• In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda... coulda... shoulda.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Mean, Meals, Bullets

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• They use those monitors now, and sometimes you'll be doing a shot and then suddenly you see yourself on one of those monitors, and I always say turn the monitor round, I don't want to see myself on the monitor. I never see myself 'til the movie's finished.

  Michael Caine

  Use, Want, Sometimes

  Interview with Barry Norman, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 1998.

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• I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.

  Benjamin Walker

  Teacher, Art, Odds

  Source: collider.com

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• I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known. I believe in self-reliance and individual initiative and risk-takers being rewarded. But I also believe that everybody should have a fair shot and everybody should do their fair share and everybody should play by the same rules, because that's how our economy's grown. That's how we built the world's greatest middle class.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Self, Should Have

  "Exclusive: Expanding the Debate with Third-Party Candidates Jill Stein, Virgil Goode, Rocky Anderson". www.democracynow.org. October 17, 2012.

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• Everybody knows - but no one wants to say - that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots and racial dividers. It runs the one-party state that controls public services in every major inner city, including the corrupt and failing school systems in which half the students - mainly African American and Hispanic - are denied a shot at the American dream.

  David Horowitz

  Running, Dream, Party

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• These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Hair, Wind Blowing, Insane

  "Job Title: The 'Gilmore' Noodge". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. January 23, 2005.

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• How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?

  Irvine Welsh

  Choices, Doe, Obsolete

  "Trainspotting". Book by Irvine Welsh, 1993.

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• A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.

  Roger Zelazny

  Song, Book, Fire

  Roger Zelazny (1989). “Frost and Fire”, William Morrow

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• I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped - as it is when you've been shot across the chest.

  Anthony Head

  Couches, Brows, Bits

  Toronto Trek, July 12, 2003.

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• We just couldn't hit shots. We had good looks but they weren't falling and we kept turning the ball over.

  Luol Deng

  Fall, Balls, Looks

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• The TV and the public pay our wages and they like to see professional golfers mess it up. Missing a green with a chip shot - when do you see that? It's great to see exciting golf like we had last week.

  Paul McGinley

  Golf, Missing, Pay

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• For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at a piece of work, they know something has gone into it, even if they can't lay their finger on what it is.

  Catherine Yass

  People, Finals, Looks

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• When something drastic happens in our life, one person goes and hides and doesn't want to be seen. That's what I did. [Others] want to stand up and fight and think they're tough. Like if someone gets shot, you're either scared of guns or you think you're Superman. In my situation, I wanted to hide. I didn't want to be seen anymore.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Fighting, Gun, Thinking

  "Arenas opens up after lengthy hiatus from league, media". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. February 20, 2012.

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• The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to this slander. Charge!

  Winfield Scott

  Lying, Iron, Long

  Timothy D. Johnson, Winfield Scott (2015). “Memoirs of Lieut.-General Winfield Scott”, p.71, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Repetition acts as an enforcement mechanism: It makes cooperation achievable when it is not achievable in the one-shot game, even when one replaces strategic equilibrium as the criterion for achievability by the more stringent requirement of perfect equilibrium.

  Robert Aumann

  Games, Perfect, Requirements

  "War and peace". Robert J. Aumann's Nobel Prize Lecture, December 8, 2005.

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• The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.

  Hideki Tojo

  War, Feet, Soldier

  Note signed by Tojo, left at a camp during the Bataan Death March, June 1945.

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• Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.

  Linus Torvalds

  Keys, Eight, Keyboards

  Google+ blog, plus.google.com. June 23, 2013.

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• Of all the things in sports, getting a sack is one of the hardest things to do. It's like a last-second, game-winning shot in the NBA. A guy hits the last-second shot, and the fans scream. For us (defensive ends), the sack is everything. It's hard to get there. But once you do, there's nothing like it.

  Dwight Freeney

  Sports, Winning, Nba

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