Stars Quotes - Page 17

• I would just like to say that Ritchie Blackmore did a bunch of great stuff guitar - wise. I'm happy to play the solo from 'Highway Star'. I always thought it was one of the most exciting guitar solos I'd ever played.

  Steve Morse

  Music, Wise, Guitar

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• Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south.

  Greg Walden

  Opportunity, Training, Progress

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• If you don't know the kind of person I am
  and I don't know the kind of person you are
  a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
  and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

  William Stafford

  Home, Missing, World

  William Stafford, Kim Robert Stafford (2003). “Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War”, p.89, Milkweed Editions

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• Always reach for the moon cuz if u slip up u will still be a star!! #Jeah

  Ryan Lochte

  Moon, Cuz, Stills

  Twitter post from Jul 31, 2012

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• Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

  Jeb Bush

  Night, Space, Heaven

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• My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Two, Wish, Wake Up

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 25, 2010

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• I don't want to be a rock star all my life.
  I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.

  Mick Jagger

  Vegas, Rocks, Handbags

  "Leader of the brand" by Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2005.

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• Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

  Michael Hutchence

  Actors, Want, Pops

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

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• Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks.

  Michael Hutchence

  People, Sides, Embarrassing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.

  Oskar Schindler

  Ghetto, Pigs, Years

  Interview at Am Hauptbahn No. 4 in Frankfurt Am Main, West Germany, 1964.

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• The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Morning, Children, Dark

  Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

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• Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth!  I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him.  Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning.  But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes - ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself.

  Jim Elliot

  Children, Eye, Voice

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place

  Michael Medved

  Running, Campaigns, Want

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• A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith; a music which may touch upon all subjects without ceasing to touch upon God; an original music, in short, whose language may open a few doors, take down some yet distant stars.

  Olivier Messiaen

  Spiritual, Doors, May

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• I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Actors, Want, Driven

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• The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport

  Walt Frazier

  Sports, Teamwork, Communication

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• Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

  Shigeru Ban

  Want, Architecture, Used

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• Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

  Melissa Bean

  Home, Agency, Average

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• That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.

  Martin Luther

  Sleep, Caring, Thinking

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• Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Dollars, Debt, Ten

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• The Death Star is just full of British actors opening doors and going,Oh... I... oh... What is it Lieutenant Sebastian? It's just the Rebels, sir... they're here. My God, man! Do they want tea? No, I think they're after something a bit more than that, sir. I don't know what it is, but they've brought a flag. Damn, that's dash cunning of them.

  Eddie Izzard

  Men, Thinking, Doors

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

  Simone Weil

  Lying, Moon, Sky

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.121, Psychology Press

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• With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

  Bertrand Russell

  Passion, Heart, Knowledge

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.

  John Milton

  Cells, Heaven, Peaceful

  c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.167-74.

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• The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Fire, Blood, Sea

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