Thanks Quotes - Page 29

• The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.

  Bill Gates

  People, Around The World, Poverty

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• Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.

  Horace

  Heart, Wine, Thinking

  Horace, Persius (2005). “The Satires of Horace and Persius”, p.143, Penguin UK

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• A little man is running a jewelry store. A man runs in saying, Okay, take my watch, put on a new band, install a new battery, clean the case, install a new crystal, and tune it up. I will be back in a half hour for it. Thanks! and runs out the door. The little jeweler says, C-C-C-Come in?

  Henny Youngman

  Running, Men, Doors

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• Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.

  Paul Valery

  Photography, Eye, Should

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• People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that's an image I really didn't need.

  Billy Connolly

  People, Needs, Toilets

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• By shrewdly linking procreation to an act likely to make you stupid with excitement, God has seen to it that Life does indeed go on. It's possible, by the way, that this is why God's name comes up so often in the middle of the act; it's a salute to the author: Hey, whoever made this up - thanks.

  Paul Reiser

  Stupid, Names, Doe

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• I got some good news earlier today before the show. Thanks to Alex Rodriguez, I am no longer the most overpaid disappointment in New York City.

  David Letterman

  New York, Disappointment, Cities

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• If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Photography, Art, Stupidity

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• My mind says one thing, but my body says another. Thanks a lot, Indian food and beer.

  Demetri Martin

  Beer, Mind, Body

  Twitter post from Aug 01, 2012

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• Once I opened up a fortune cookie and inside was the guy's cheque next to me I said hey buddy I got your cheque he said thanks.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Guy, Fortune Cookie, Cookies

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• The TV season is a year-long thing now, and the networks are starting to look at it that way, thanks to cable, satellites, and competition.

  Drew Carey

  Years, Long, Competition

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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• I'm not as good a swimmer as I used to be - thanks to evolution.

  Emo Philips

  Swimmer, Evolution, Used

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• I grew up in an era when strange adults would grab me on the street and say: 'Don't do that.' You never see that these days. 'Hi, we took the liberty of spanking your son.' Oh thanks, my hand was getting worn.

  Emo Philips

  Son, Hands, Liberty

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'

  Minnie Driver

  People, Looks, Lasts

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

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• 1962 to 1965, where suddenly the guitar became this icon of youth culture all over the world, thanks mostly to the Beatles. Add to that, that I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times, and that the guitar was the one instrument that my parents absolutely refused to let in the house. So you add it up and see that irresistible forces led me to the guitar.

  Pat Metheny

  Night, Guitar, Icons

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• The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.

  Joseph Goebbels

  People, Cameras, Individual

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• Photography today is accomplishing a lofty mission in which every German should collaborate by buying a camera. The German people is ahead of every other in the technical domain and, thanks to its exceptional qualities, the small camera has conquered the whole world... Much is at stake here from the point of view of popular consumer goods and, furthermore, photography has a particularly important political role to play. (Addressing the Berlin Photography Fair, 1933)

  Joseph Goebbels

  Photography, Views, Play

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• One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy.

  Jane Birkin

  Thinking, Used, Should

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• When we said that no more areas of power should go to the EU we were right. And now thanks to the European Union Act 2011, by law that cannot happen without a referendum. And we are just as right that the EU has more power in our national life than it should, and I believe as strongly as I ever have that when the right moment comes this party should set out to reduce it.

  William Hague

  Party, Believe, Law

  Conservative party conference, Manchester, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Marketing has taken such a complete shift, thanks to the internet.

  James Wan

  Taken, Marketing, Internet

  Source: collider.com

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• All has changed, thanks to Joe Eszterhas' life-threatening battle with throat cancer. He announced in "The New York Times" that he and Hollywood had blood on their hands and now Eszterhas is crusading to stop Hollywood's glamorization of smoking.

  Joe Eszterhas

  New York, Cancer, Blood

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for me. If I have a carapace of academic presentability, it is thanks to the wonderful teachers I had.

  James Alison

  Teacher, Academic Life, Survival

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• What FC Bayern has become is thanks to Gerd Mueller.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Germany

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• The hard part about living in the present is it forces you to abandon hope for the future. Thanks for nothing, now.

  Dana Gould

  Live In The Present, Force, Hope For The Future

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jun 05, 2012

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• I have to hear this all the time in England: Well, all Americans are fat and stupid, mm-hm-hm-hm-hm. Really? Well, thanks for sending over the best and brightest to start the party. Maybe we can send a few freaky, Texas, militia, hate-group, gun-toting weirdoes back to your country.

  Greg Proops

  Country, Hate, Stupid

  "Comedy Central Presents/ Greg Proops". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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