Sticks Quotes - Page 10

• Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.

  Breaux Greer

  Salary, Paid

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• Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out.

  Breaux Greer

  Men, Hey, Spices

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• I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.

  Laura Osnes

  Hair, Iron, Giving

  "Face Time | Laura Osnes". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

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• I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.

  Donny Robinson

  Feet, Littles, Wheels

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• Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

  Michael Baden

  Thinking, Drug, Arsenic

  "Sunday Morning" with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2003.

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• Reduce risk, lower your required capital, and focus on what you’re really good at—and hire others for what you are not.) This is something you should think about in any business: don’t try to do everything. You aren’t the best at everything. Find out where you have an advantage and stick to that.

  Marc Ecko

  Thinking, Focus, Risk

  Marc Ecko (2015). “Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• You have these relationships with people that you care about, but I also try to stick to my job as filmmaker and be fair and truthful about what I saw and my experience of the people, hopefully informed by a deep understanding of them.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Jobs, Deep Understanding, People

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• That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

  Mick Ralphs

  Song, Writing, Twenties

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• Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.

  Bert Jansch

  Guitar, Guitar Playing, Showing Off

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• We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Civilization, Done, World

  George Bernard Shaw (1987). “Back to Methuselah”, p.443, Penguin UK

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• The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

  B. C. Forbes

  Friendship, Loyalty, True Friend

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• Many Christians are so spiritually frail, sickly, and lacking in spiritual vitality that they cannot stick to prayer for more than a few minutes at a time.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the tallest and fattest golf watcher on the course will take up station directly in front.

  Peter Dobereiner

  Golf, Shooting, Vantage Point

  Peter Dobereiner (1981). “The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner”

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• People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Numbers, People

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• The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein's bicycle cement, stretched with muslin they'd sewn on their sister's sewing machine in their own backyard on Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio, soar into the air above the dunes and the wide beach at Kitty Hawk.

  John Dos Passos

  Sister, Beach, Air

  John Dos Passos (2013). “The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over time, and incrementally through no specific session, your body changes. Your mind becomes calloused to effort. You stop thinking of running as difficult or interesting or magical. It just becomes what you do. It becomes a habit.

  Jack Edmonds

  Running, Thinking, Interesting

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• Modern technology has conveniently provided a measuring stick by which you can determine whether or not you are conducting your business in an acceptable, ethical way. . . . You can ask yourself: How will I feel if my business dealings today are secretly recorded on a hidden video camera, and appear on this evening's television newscast for all to see?

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Technology, Video, Television

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• I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind of man. It is not a property of the universe. Rationality may be a useful tool when it suits our purposes, however, it is merely a measuring stick, calibrated against what we know of the nature of the universe - all of which may or may not be completely inaccurate.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Men, Mind

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• If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

  Harry Shearer

  Lasts, Figures, Minutes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes in life, we have to continue to learn the same lesson until it sticks.

  Jeremy Piven

  Lessons, Sometimes, Sometimes In Life

  "Jeremy Piven Talks MR. SELFRDIGE, Similarities Between His Characters Harry Selfridge and Ari Gold, Plus Fans’ Desire to See an ENTOURAGE Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 14, 2013.

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• It's hard to shake a stick at success.

  Nathan Fillion

  Shakes, Hard

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Devil, Culture, World

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1875). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.258

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• To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Reform, Way, Crooked

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.190, Courier Corporation

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• The doctor says to the patient, "Take your clothes off and stick your tongue out the window". "What will that do" asks the patient. The doctor says "I'm mad at my neighbor!".

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Clothes

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• Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

  Ouida

  Fall, Arrows, Scandal

  Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.60

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