Stuck Quotes - Page 29

• When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, "Give me this day my daily bread." It was always, "Give us this day our daily bread." That stuck. We're all in this together.

  Bill Moyers

  Growing Up, Giving, Together

  Source: progressive.org

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• Know what you want to do, because if you don't know what you want to do, you'll get stuck.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Want, Ifs, Knows

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I know people's problems: the problems of those who work hard, who must slave away. The couples who have two incomes but who can nevertheless barely cover their rent. The people who get stuck in traffic on their way to work. The people who have to wait in vain for a train to come just as they are supposed to be picking up their children from daycare. I can say with a clear conscience to those people: I understand your problems. And I will do all I can to decrease them.

  Martin Schulz

  Children, Couple, Hard Work

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People who have stuck to their vision and mission no matter what. They inspire me. The people who wake up to non-glamorous lives to continue pushing to do what God has called them to do.

  LeCrae

  People, Inspire, Vision

  Source: thelightnc.hellobeautiful.com

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• The good news for somebody who is struggling with same-gender attraction is this: It is that 'I'm not stuck with it forever.' It's just now. Admittedly, for each one of us, it's hard to look beyond the 'now' sometimes. But nonetheless, if you see mortality as now, it's only during this season.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Struggle, Forever, Looks

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• If anybody ever tries to do an investigative report on a journalist, much like the kind and the way a journalist would do on a public figure, have you ever seen a stuck pig? Because that's what the journalist looks like.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Pigs, Trying, Looks

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I have a writing space in my apartment, but I prefer to write at coffee shops. When I'm stuck, I take a walk and spend time outside to clear my mind. I get inspired on these walks, often getting new ideas for stories and finding solutions to the problems that need to be fixed in the draft I am working on.

  Renee Watson

  Coffee, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We have to help African American people that, for the most part, are stuck there, Hispanic American people. We have Hispanic-American people that are in the inner cities and they are living in hell.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, People, African American

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the "tyranny of custom." People stuck in that rut might say "why?" and the first thing an exploratory person would say is "why not?"

  John Medina

  People, Why Not, Might

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Responsibility, Modesty

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Parameters, Ifs

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview With Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

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• What's great is my parents aren't stuck in the '60s. My dad is so into the culture of today.

  Winona Ryder

  Dad, Parent, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Study your thoughts and question them. What am I telling myself that is keeping me stuck or holding me back? What is this pattern of thinking that says I'm less than I am, which is absolute magnificence? It's our thoughts that hold us back.

  Suzanne Giesemann

  Thinking, Patterns, Magnificence

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• You do not have to remain stuck in your grief forever when you realize that your loved ones who have passed continue on with you, side-by-side with you, in your lives, even though they have their own life going on across the veil.

  Suzanne Giesemann

  Grief, Forever, Life Going On

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• It was not that long ago a bunch of researchers got on a boat and started chugging for the South Pole to find evidence of the melting glaciers and global warming, and they got stuck in the ice and it took three ice breakers and a helicopter to rescue them. Yet they still carry the day in the pop culture that global warming is happening.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ice, Long Ago, Melting

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• As an actor, I think you can get really bad habits, if you do the same thing, every day. You can get stuck in a rut. So, I like jumping between genres, and then taking a break and learning something new. I like feeling like I'm still learning.

  Brie Larson

  Thinking, Learning Something New, Jumping

  Source: collider.com

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• I took "Forever" [by Judy Blume] to the bathroom to read [when I was eight] and then I heard my mom coming so I stuck it under the toilet and went running out. And I went back later to check for it. And it was gone.

  Lena Dunham

  Mom, Running, Eight

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I've always been someone in [childhood] period of my life sort of the pains and anxieties of being young are the things that have really stuck with me.

  Lena Dunham

  Pain, Childhood, Anxiety

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• My dad died when I was young. He was a good and decent man. There are a few things he would say that have just always stuck with me. He'd say, "Son, you're either part of the problem or part of the solution." Well, regrettably, President Obama has become part of the problem, and Mitt Romney is the solution.

  Paul Ryan

  Dad, Son, Men

  "'An Extreme Choice' -- What Two of Wisconsin's Leading Progressive Journalists Think About Mitt Romney's Pick of Paul Ryan" by Amy Goodman, Matthew Rothschild, John Nichols, www.alternet.org. August 13, 2012.

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• Young people are more likely to be idealistic and think that radical change is both necessary and possible. They may not yet be stuck in the routinized and sterile life that work and age often bring, nor stuck in any kind of rigid way of thinking. They have great energy and can get things done.

  Michael Yates

  Thinking, People, Age

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We can't create a shift in normalised attitudes and behaviours without everybody on board, so not being sexist isn't enough - get stuck in and start tackling sexism too.

  Laura Bates

  Attitude, Boards, Behaviour

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• I think that is one of the first things that I got clear in my mind when I began to play around with fiction, that I had to find a language and it was not in existance at the time. You have put it very well - it wasn't to be taken for granted. You had to go on and search until you found a way through the conversation of English and Igbo. The two languages stuck into each other and tried to find a way to express through one, the medium of the thoughts. That's a very exciting thing to do, a very difficult thing to do.

  Chinua Achebe

  Taken, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• Once you play something, then you get 20 more of those. So I've tried to avoid getting stuck. I try to take roles that are the opposite of the last thing I did as much as I can.

  Terry Kinney

  Opposites, Play, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a false illusion that we wake up thinking of who we are in terms of identity and that we are stuck in the boundaries of who we are nationalistically.

  Elia Suleiman

  Thinking, Identity, Wake Up

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Capitalism is the only engine credible enough to generate mass wealth. I think it's imperfect, but we're stuck with it. And thank God we have that in the toolbox. But if you don't manage it in some way that incorporates all of society, if everybody's not benefiting on some level and you don't have a sense of shared purpose, national purpose, then it's just a pyramid scheme.

  David Simon

  Thinking, Pyramids, Pyramid Schemes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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