Shoulders Quotes - Page 24

• In trading with each other cities can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another. Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is one of the terrible things about empires. Empires want them only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Want, Empires

  Source: aqi.quebec

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• Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is one of the terrible things about empires.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Empires, Terrible

  Source: aqi.quebec

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• A lot of musicians have said things to me like, "Music saved my life". And "I'm standing on the shoulders of dozens of people that you've never heard of that were like angels for me that came out of the woodwork." And that's really the case for me. I had so many people that did those kinds of things for me.

  Jon Gordon

  Angel, People, Musician

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• I do for myself exactly what I would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath, or go buy myself a fabulous pair of socks. I believe that you take the action, and THEN the insight follows - I do loving things for me, stroke my own shoulder, put myself down for a short nap, and the insight follows: that I am a wild precious woman, a human merely being, as e e cummings put it, deserving of respect, tenderness, protection, delight, and solidarity. And that is what Home looks like for me now.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Home, Naps

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The success of any development project is based on encouraging people to shoulder their own responsibilities and become aware of their own capacities, their rights too, rather than providing them with ready-made solutions.

  Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

  Responsibility, Rights, People

  Source: simerg.com

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• It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there was a little phantom version of you sitting on your shoulder with a notebook going, I can use this. OK, look at the way that the light is glinting off the broken plastic on the road next to the blood. You can use this. And it was always a very strange feeling.

  Neil Gaiman

  Notebook, Light, Blood

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In terms of our democracy, we are sort of shrugging our shoulders and saying, oh dear, Guantánamo, that's so awful, that's so awful, but it's here. The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it's never going to swing back.

  Dar Williams

  Taken, Swings, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• In acting, you're only responsible for your part. When you're directing, the load is on your shoulders, so you have to feel a strong connection to the material. It's a higher bar to get over.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Strong, Acting, Connections

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In 1951 I took my first art course. And one day I looked over my shoulder and there was this tall gentleman standing, very well-dressed and groomed, and he asked, "What is your name? I don't know you. What is your major?" I said history. And he looked at my drawing and looked at me and said, "You don't belong over there; you belong here." He was James A. Porter.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Names, Drawing

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking for those who have fallen asleep at the Seder, and takes them away in his bag.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Sleep, Night, Remember You

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• The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.

  Maya Angelou

  Hair, Important, Want

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• Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

  Francesca Annis

  Fame, Sat, Stardom

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• I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

  Francesca Annis

  Thinking, People, Sitting

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• If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Nfl, Decision

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

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• A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

  Harry Browne

  Inspirational, Burden, I Realized

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• I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Softball

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• I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.

  Jackie Chan

  Pops, Plates, Metals

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2010.

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• You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody.

  Hillary Clinton

  Opportunity, Thinking, Order

  "Interview With Senator Hillary Clinton; President Bush Set to Launch Ad Campaign". "Lou Dobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. March 3, 2004.

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• In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.

  Billy Corgan

  Want, Sides, Chips

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• I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

  Kevin Costner

  Drama, Thinking, Standing

  "‘Hatfields And McCoys’ Interviews: Kevin Costner And Bill Paxton Preview History Miniseries". Interview with Alex Moaba, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2012.

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• One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.

  Kevin Costner

  Responsibility, Doe, Film

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• I count on chiropractic sessions to keep my body aligned. Standing for hours can impact my posture, and that can throw the rest of my body out of whack. Acupuncture helps me relax and release stress. I'm also very into massage to help release tension in my back, neck, and shoulders.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Stress, Impact, Relax

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• What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

  Roger Ebert

  Fall, Responsibility, Age

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.657, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.

  Joshua Foer

  Islands, Brooklyn, Back When

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• Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.

  Ron Fournier

  Country, Kings, Office

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