Stuck Quotes - Page 34

• I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

  Larry King

  Worst Person, Jam, Stuck In Traffic

  Larry King, Greg King, Peter Occhiogrosso (1989). “Tell It to the King”, Jove

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• I've had friends whose boyfriends I meet, then they break up and I end up staying buddies with the boyfriend. In this day and age with social media and Facebook, Twitter, it's really impossible to escape people that you've been involved with. In a weird way, it makes it easier for everyone to stay friends because you're just sort of stuck there.

  Zachary Knighton

  Media, People, Age

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• I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in '88, it was not like that anymore.

  Guy Lafleur

  Guy, Together, Big Families

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• Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.

  Jeremy Lin

  Basketball, Sports, Brother

  "Jeremy Lin: The “Linsanity” interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.insightnews.com.

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• I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

  Shirley Manson

  Sick, Labels, Records

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• As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

  Hilary Mantel

  World, Way, Ruts

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• If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.

  Hilary Mantel

  Party, Sleep, Exercise

  FaceBook post by Hilary Mantel from Nov 03, 2012

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• My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Im Sorry, Moving

  "'Comedy Central Presents' ('Demetri Martin')". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. March 19, 2004.

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• I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

  Rachel McAdams

  Woods, Sides, Sticks

  "Rachel McAdams Is an Open Book". Marie Claire Interview, www.marieclaire.com. April 8, 2009.

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• The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

  Josh McDowell

  Easter, Clothes, Mind

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• The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.

  A. J. McLean

  Tattoo, Boys, Hair

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• The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

  Arthur Miller

  Apples, Tree, Doomed

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.206, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Because I could throw so hard when I got to college, they made me a pitcher. If I had to it all over again, I would have stuck to playing in the outfield. I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

  Shemar Moore

  Running, College, People

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

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• My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Soccer, Father

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• When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

  Bob Newhart

  Done, Cymbals, Nowhere To Go

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

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• I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Ems, Done, Twisted

  Television interview with David Frost, 19 May 1977, in David Frost I Gave Them a Sword (1978) ch. 10

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• What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, New Normal, People

  "CBS 'Early Show' Touted Softest Part of Obama '60 Minutes' Interview, Ignored Tough Questions". Interview with Steve Kroft, www.mrc.org. November 7, 2010.

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• You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.

  Joel Osteen

  Today, Causes, Where You Are

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• You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'

  Rand Paul

  Country, People, Envy

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• What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.

  Rick Perry

  Growing Up, Hard Work, Way

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.

  Rick Perry

  Responsibility, Government, Sight

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• Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

  Colin Powell

  School, Army, College

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• At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

  Charles Rangel

  Quagmire, Fields, Killing

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• I always believed it would happen and stuck to my guns.

  Kid Rock

  Gun, Happens

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2013

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