Stuck Quotes - Page 35

• I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

  Norman Rockwell

  Stars, Artist, Hard Times

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• It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.

  Mitt Romney

  Religious, Blessed, Exercise

  Mitt Romney's commencement address on gay marriage and religion at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2012.

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• When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

  Paul Ryan

  Journey, Thinking, Waiting

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Opportunity, Class

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  School, Self, Boots

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• I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged... But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Girl, Children, Character

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

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• I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy.

  Jill Scott

  Diversity, Creative, Unhappy

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• We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Jobs, Important, Littles

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• When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Dream, Lonely

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• When I first started wearing wigs, I didn't know you had to anchor them down with bobby pins. I walked out during a windy day and my wig blew off and got stuck to a branch. I was walking while my wig was hanging! If that's not the most embarrassing thing... but you have to use bobby pins.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Anchors, Wigs, Use

  "Behind the Brush: Wiggin’ Out with Sherri Shepherd". "Ebony" Interview, www.ebony.com. December 13, 2012.

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• If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

  Sargent Shriver

  Education, Caste System, Doe

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• I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

  Thomas Sowell

  Imagination, World, Facts

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• When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

  Layne Staley

  Home

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• I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Attitude, Mean

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• I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Shooting, Sticks, Film

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• You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

  Harry S. Truman

  Two, Evil, Immature

  Harry S. Truman (1999). “Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed”, p.134, University of Missouri Press

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• I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

  Steve Vai

  Thinking, Artist, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You're so much freer to mess about and try things.

  Johnny Vegas

  Drama, School, Kids

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• Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn't abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mom, Gay, Gun

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• Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.

  Christopher Walken

  Distance, Party, Home

  "Christopher Walken: 'No matter who I play, it's me" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2012.

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• I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.

  Emma Watson

  Writing, School, Names

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• If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Reputation, Bigs

  "JACK WELCH: 'If You Have A Reputation As A Big, Stiff Bureaucracy, You're Stuck'"by Kim Bhasin, www.businessinsider.com. February 27, 2012.

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• We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Color, Islands

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• If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

  Betty White

  Long, Sound, Doe

  Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.91, Penguin

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• I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era.

  Carnie Wilson

  Eras, Get Away, Seems

  PARADE Readers Chat With Wilson Phillips, parade.com. April 23, 2012.

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