Streaks Quotes - Page 6

• I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.

  Brad Katsuyama

  Rebellious, Circumstances, Products

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• For me, Paul Scholes has been the best midfield player in the Premier League. By a mile. He has the lot. He scores and creates goals, he can pass the ball, he can head it, and rounds all this off with a competitive streak.

  Alan Shearer

  Player, Goal, League

  "Paul Scholes – the Greatest Premier League Midfielder of All Time?" by Nirmalya 'Nemo' Dutta, www.india.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Beware the person who is on a hot streak.

  James Cook

  Hot, Persons

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• Indeed one streak in our economy, we're missing the big oil companies. We're missing other big energy companies. We're missing the big picture, and I have a record of trying to go at the problems that actually exist, and I will continue to do that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Oil, Missing, Trying

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks and I would like to continue that streak.

  Mackenzie Davis

  People, Lovely, Lucky

  "Mackenzie Davis Talks WHAT IF, Doing Anything for Her Job, Making Out with Adam Driver, Her Monster-Making Hobby, HALT AND CATCH FIRE and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

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• As for the work ethic, I'm just the kind of guy who takes what he does seriously. I never missed a day of school, I've rarely missed work and I played all those straight games; my streak only ended when I broke my cheekbone.

  Dolph Schayes

  School, Games, Work Ethic

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• I think probably when I was little, after my brother turned on me, I just had to play by myself or with myself. I've always done that. I think either it's some kind of weirdly competitive streak or it takes my mind off whatever's bothering me.

  John Malkovich

  Brother, Thinking, Play

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I think I definitely want to blame my parents on this one. One of the things about having a minister for a father, you do tend to develop an irreverent streak. Kinda goes with the territory. And Dad was as bad as I am, really . .

  Matt Ruff

  Dad, Father, Thinking

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• I have a streak in myself, like, I'm an exhibi- tionist. There's a side of me that really wants to show off and share parts of myself with others. I mean, that's why I live in New York, and that's why I'm an artist who shows 10 times a year.

  Josh Smith

  New York, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled apple women, or the front edge of barges, and I whirl out of their way, thus going into ditches and fields and up on front lawns, endangering the life of authentic admirals and apple women who may be out on the roads for a breath of air before retiring.

  James Thurber

  Night, Apples, Air

  James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber (2002). “The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber”, Simon and Schuster

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• Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Children, Smart, People

  Shirley MacLaine (1975). “You Can Get There From here”

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• Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  Melvin Konner

  Mother, Flower, Sleep

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• I think Alice [Cooper] probably, on some level, recognized that good old self-destructive streak that does happen in some people's lives. So, though I wasn't there with Alice and the Vampires, but I'd give anything in the world to have been, I had my own version, I suppose, a little later.

  Johnny Depp

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp And Friends Write A Musical Toast To Decadence". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

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• There's a part of me that wants to go streak and run outside and jump around and go swim in the ocean and do everything. The other part of me wants to bear down and repeat this kind of performance next year and in the years to come.

  Barry Zito

  Running, Ocean, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think he turned [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] into a sort of drama, there's too much dark material underneath it for it to be a comedy; it wasn't designed to be a comedy. I think it's a comedy... I think it's a drama that's funny; which is different.

  Sam Neill

  Drama, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Want, Affliction, Terrible

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• If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Baby

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• I don't particularly like the word average because when it comes down to it there is no average in people. Everybody has their own streak of uniqueness within them.

  Matthew Carter

  Average, People, Uniqueness

  Source: darkagefiction.wordpress.com

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• I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs. There are few sights that appeal to me more than the streaks of lean and fat in a good side of bacon, or the lovely round of pinkish meat framed in delicate white fat that is Canadian bacon. Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.

  James Beard

  Morning, Coffee, Food

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• I like stirring things up. Im on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I dont get in too much trouble.

  William Joyce

  Kids, Adults, Too Much

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  To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  People, Giving, Leader

  Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.77, Bantam

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• Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they're just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up.

  Suzanne Vega

  Powerful, Kindness, Simple

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• It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Night, Profound, Imagination

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.145, Lulu.com

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• The darkness is not so dense as it was; there are faint streaks on the horizon's verge; mist is in the valleys, but there is a radiance on the distant hill. It comes nearer--that promise of the day. The clouds roll rapidly away, and they are fringed with amber and gold. It is, it is the blest sunlight that I feel around me--Morning! It is morning!

  William Morley Punshon

  Morning, Clouds, Darkness

  William Morley Punshon (1857). “John Bunyan, a lecture”, p.50

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• You win a while, and then it’s done - Your little winning streak.

  Leonard Cohen

  Winning, Done, Littles

  Song: A Thousand Kisses Deep, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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