Shoulders Quotes - Page 25

• I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

  Jamie Foxx

  Real, Hands, Racism

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

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• I've talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical toll it puts on one's knees and shoulders - no one wants to do it again. I'm 57 and I don't think I'm going to take on any job or go on vacation again and see to it that I can gain 30 pounds.

  Tom Hanks

  Jobs, Thinking, Vacation

  "Tom Hanks: type 2 diabetes diagnosis means end of weightier roles" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2013.

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• We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Should Have, Allies

  "Canadian Press Newswire", April 11, 2003.

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• Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Writing, Hunting

  Ernest Hemingway, Nick Lyons, Jack Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.

  Neil Innes

  Eric, Parrots, Wanted

  "Bonzo Dog Band". Interview with Richie Unterberger, www.furious.com. January 2001.

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• I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It's so clear to me what their aesthetic is, what they're projecting. And I look at my own work and I think, Who could ever decipher what the hell is going on?

  Marc Jacobs

  Thinking, People, Looks

  Interview with Calvin Klein, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 10, 2010.

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• When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are a little further back; your style is a little more dynamic. It's about the reestablishment of the gentleman.

  Dhani Jones

  Doors, Ties, Gentleman

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• I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.

  Michael Jordan

  Talent, Built

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• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  Garrison Keillor

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Running

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• Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dog, Voice, Water

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.192, Faber & Faber

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• If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.

  Heath Ledger

  Horse, Fall, Legs

  "Kissing cowboy". Interview with Howard Feinstein, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2006.

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• Obama's an angry guy. He's got a chip on his shoulder.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Guy, Chips, Angry

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• I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.

  Diego Maradona

  Mistake, Fighting, Goal

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• I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

  Bruno Mars

  Stars, California, Age

  "Bruno Mars heads for the stars with new album". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2010.

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• I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that, I certainly believe in equal rights. I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so, in a lot of different dimensions. But I don't, I think, have sort of the militant drive and the sort of the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.

  Marissa Mayer

  Believe, Thinking, Rights

  "Makers: Women Who Make America". PBS/AOL documentary, www.businessinsider.com. February 26, 2013.

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• He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Wind, Wings, Literature

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• Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.

  Ian Mcewan

  Art, Discovery, Ideas

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• We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Hard Work, Fighting, Squares

  "Mikulski: We’ll fight with ‘shoulders square, lipstick on’" by Mary C. Curtis, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I was hospitalized five times in 2011 because of my skiing. Fracturing my left shoulder twice, snapping my anterior cruciate ligament once and smashing my scapula into five pieces.

  Heather Mills

  Pieces, Skiing, Smashing

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• If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.

  Art Modell

  Team, Years, Becoming

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• I've always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn't just about doing cardio, it's also when I can get my 'me time' to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.

  Mandy Moore

  Hiking, Training, Needs

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• Maybe I over-do the 'not-80s' thing. It should be a part of my life that I've got some sort of pride in, but I've got this huge chip on my shoulder about '80s nostalgia - and it annoys fans sometimes.

  Gary Numan

  Pride, Fans, Nostalgia

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• I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.

  Robert Orben

  Mean, Stuff, Arms

  "What's So Funny? Humor Comes Under Harsh Glare of Political Correctness". Press-Telegram, October 23, 1993.

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• Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.

  Susan Orlean

  Country, Winter, White

  "Drifting" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2011.

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