Sleeves Quotes - Page 11

• At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and intriguing and moving, versus really carrying some kind of heavy political agenda on my sleeve. That's not who I am.

  Charlize Theron

  Moving, Who I Am, People

  "Charlize Theron and Paul Haggis on In the Valley of Elah". Press conference, movieweb.com. September 11, 2007.

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• If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fighting, Thinking, Chinese

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• He walked into a room and everything stopped. Elvis was just so physically beautiful that even if he didn't have any talent... just his face, just his presence. And he was funny, charming, and complicated, but he didn't wear it on his sleeve. You didn't see that he was complicated. You saw great needs.

  Tuesday Weld

  Beautiful, Saws, Needs

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

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• I fully realize that every promise I make, the Republicans will double and the Democrats will redouble. They think this will make me vulnerable, but they don't know I have some tricks up my sleeve, along with a box of raisins to munch on while I'm waiting for the returns to come in.

  Gracie Allen

  Thinking, Waiting, Promise

  "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.

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• I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

  Tony Blair

  Politician, I Can

  Tony Blair (1997). “New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Long, History, Tricks

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don’t run away when things are tough. It means you don’t turn away from a friend when he or she is in trouble. It means standing up against the majority opinion... There’s a lot of people who won’t wear it on their sleeve, or display it through some heroic act. But courage is having the strength to do what’s honorable and decent.

  George H. W. Bush

  Running, Courage, Mean

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Wise, Evil

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• I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch.

  Emily Dickinson

  Food, Grace, Mixing

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.116, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

  Steven Pressfield

  Self, Miracle, Revision

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.125, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

  N. T. Wright

  Art, Creating, Justice

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• She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Thinking, Lunch

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• Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves that burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything - because that's what growing older is.

  Dennis Lehane

  Real, Hate, Winning

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• Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

  James Rollins

  Hands

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• To get the respect of people, I think you've got to roll up your sleeves and lead with your people. The absolute key is treating your people well. Looking for the best in your people. Lots and lots of praise, no criticism.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Keys, People

  "Richard Branson: Interview With ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts.

  Steve Miller

  Heart, Pride, May

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• I am two different people. What you see on the court is just natural for me. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have always said 'C'mon' purely to fire myself up. Off the court, I am a lot shyer. I stick to my team and my family and people I trust.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Team, Heart, Fire

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

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• When I die, I want to be buried in a long long-sleeve black Ralph Lauren dress and brown chunky boots. I want my hair styled like his models, long hair that flows. I also want natural makeup with a light pink lip.

  Nadine Velazquez

  Makeup, Light, Hair

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

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• When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

  Francois Cavanna

  Trying, Ceilings, Painting

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• I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.

  Carolina Herrera

  People, Mind, Shy

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• Be spectacularly great at what you do. Wear your passion on your sleeve and hold your heart in the palm of your hand. And work hard. Really hard.

  Robin Sharma

  Hard Work, Passion, Heart

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.15, Jaico Publishing House

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• If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.

  George P. Shultz

  Giving, Vests, Made

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• In our hedonistic age, the Slow movement has a marketing ace up its sleeve: it peddles pleasure. The central tenet of the Slow philosophy is taking the time to do things properly, and thereby enjoy them more.

  Carl Honore

  Philosophy, Marketing, Age

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Book, Writing, Scott Fitzgerald

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.68, U of Minnesota Press

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• History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Spring, Cutting, Thinking

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