Sick Quotes - Page 3

• I find myself getting so upset because I was never able to be a good mother for my daughter or a good grandmother for my granddaughter because I was always so sick. I only hope that I can live long enough to see my granddaughter graduate.

  Dorothy Moore

  Daughter, Mother, Long

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• People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed.

  Charles Bukowski

  People, Needs, Desperate

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• Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

  Alex Kapranos

  Blessing, Boredom, Band

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

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• We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Loneliness, Often Is

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• So use all that is called fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all and lose all, as her wheel rolls... A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

  Pat Tillman

  Believe, Recovery, Good Day

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• Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick.

  Emily Mortimer

  Vanity, Mcdonalds, Eating

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• I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Doubt, Paper, Want

  "Rupert Murdoch: News Corporation Magnate". Book by Sue Vander Hook, p. 32, 2011.

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• You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

  Mehmet Oz

  America, People, Principles

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• Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Joy, Relief

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

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• Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

  Sarah Palin

  Care, Young, Obligation

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• Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dog, Pregnancy, Years

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• Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

  Gilbert Parker

  Morning, Heart, Men

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.

  Michael Phelps

  Mom, School, Golf

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• I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

  Martha Plimpton

  Strong Women, Character, Long

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• All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

  Katie Price

  Gentleman, Want, Bloody

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• Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

  Harold Prince

  Heart, Self, Temptation

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• That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.

  Kid Rock

  Rap, Kids, Boys

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• I'd sit on a horse and forget I was even sick.

  Ann Romney

  Horse, Forget

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• I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.

  Tim Roth

  Brother, Father, Real

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• Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Elderly, Organization, Volunteer

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• Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

  Jerry Saltz

  Epic, Perfection, Artistic

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• My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, Kids, Cities

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• If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.

  David Schwimmer

  Dark, Two, Choices

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• I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.

  Robert Smith

  Fashion, Thinking, Hair

  "The talking Cure". Interview with Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2004.

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• All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more than in health, susceptible to the influence of particular states of the mind.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Mind, Influence

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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