Thirty Quotes - Page 23

• The dividing line [between friends and acquaintances] is communication, I think. A friend is someone to whom you can say any jackass thing that enters your mind. With acquaintances, you are forever aware of their slightly unreal image of you, and to keep them content, you edit yourself to fit. Many marriages are between acquaintances. You can be with a person for three hours of your life and have a friend. Another will remain an acquaintance for thirty years.

  John D. MacDonald

  Communication, Thinking, Years

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• Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Years, Choices, Once Upon A Time

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2006). “Moving on: Creating Your House of Belonging with Simple Abundance”, p.99, Meredith Books

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• None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a profit. We don't deal in big budgets. We know what we want and we shoot it and we don't waste anything. I never understand these films that cost twenty, thirty million dollars when they could be made for half that. Maybe it's because no one cares. We care.

  Clint Eastwood

  Risk, Twenties, Dollars

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• My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a man alive in Dublin who wasn't in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Twenty brave men marched into that post office, he said, and thirty thousand marched out.

  Lawrence Block

  Mother, Easter, Father

  Lawrence Block (2011). “Out On The Cutting Edge”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• I've said it would have to be our Empire Strikes Back for me to come back and for me to pull the whole team back together. I think we do have that idea. We do have the idea that feels big and really blows the doors off this franchise. It's hinted at promises of something for two movies now, for thirty years, so it's time to deliver on that.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Team, Blow, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.

  Muhammad Ali

  Years, White, America

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• To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from New York. You can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. I don't care how close they tell you it is. "Oh, it's only thirty miles." Thirty miles? At 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside New York, you might as well be starting out in Omaha.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Morning, New York, Cities

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• Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

  Bill Vaughan

  Years, Long, Age

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• There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Heart, Pleasure

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.248, Univ of California Press

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• Rush Limbaugh, who has made a career preaching that anybody who does drugs has got to go right to jail - do not pass go, no questions asked, right to jail - gets caught doing thirty oxycontin a day. Thirty oxycontin?! Do you have any idea how high that is?! I don't, and I've been pretty high!

  Bill Maher

  Ideas, Oxycontin, Jail

  "Bill Maher: I'm Swiss". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• You know what I never get with the limo? The tinted windows. Is that so people don't see you? Yeah, what a better way not to have people notice you than taking a thirty foot Cadillac with a TV antenna and a uniformed driver. How discreet. Nobody cares who's in the limo. You see a limo go by, you know it's either some rich jerk or fifty prom kids with $1.75 each.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Kids, Feet, People

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• Planet Hollywood has shrunk from seventy-five locations around the world to just over thirty-five over the past two years. No new Planet Hollywoods are opening, which in turn has caused a 100 percent decline in opportunities for Bruce Willis to play the harmonica.

  Jon Stewart

  Past, Opportunity, Years

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• In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs.

  Lewis Black

  Snow, Drug, Together

  "The White Album". Comedy album, 2000.

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• George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?

  Johnny Carson

  Guy, Age, Twenties

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• You break into my house, I will shoot you. My wife will shoot you and then spend thirty minutes telling you why she shot you.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Wife, House, Break

  Audio CD "Totally Committed", 1998.

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• Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day.

  Doug Stanhope

  Mothers Day, Wall, Fists

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• Being a teenager is the worst thirty years of your life. But it all changes after that. You get a great car, a great job. You got a wife, kids, you got your health. But then your company is sold out from under you, your stocks tank, your wife's sleeping with the gardener and your teenage daughter is pregnant. And you notice that you have a prostate so hard, you can actually take a hammer to it. But hey, not one zit.

  Christopher Titus

  Daughter, Jobs, Teenage

  "Titus / Errrr". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Being a teenager is the worst thirty years of your life. Peer pressure, acne, final exams, seven little tiny hairs on your upper lip. Luckily, the girls never noticed your infantile moustache, 'cos they were hyptonised by the fire engine sized zit on your forehead.

  Christopher Titus

  Girl, Teenager, Years

  "Titus / Errrr". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• My father, never chooses me for anything. Unless he needs a human shield. Thirty years and all I am to him is a hunk of meat to block buck shot. Told you dad needed me. Who's the best man now?

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Father, Block

  "Titus / Episode 27". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I do not need help destroying my relationship. I was raised by my father. I've completed a thirty-year seminar on the power of destroying relationships.

  Christopher Titus

  Father, Years, Needs

  "Titus / The Break-Up". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• The Los Angeles Times reported that sixty-three percent of American families are now considered dysfunctional. Good. 'Cause that means when Armageddon really happens, thirty-seven percent of this population is going to lose their minds. Oh my God, the world is over! Us sixty-three percent? We're going to go, Hey... there's no one watching the Lexus dealership! We're going to the Apocalypse with leather and a CD changer! You guys have been great. Thank you.

  Christopher Titus

  Mean, Cds, Guy

  "Christopher Titus: Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding". Comedy, One-man Show, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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• The most optimistic thing that's happened is that as a society we're beginning to recognize that there are many voices. When I began, thirty years ago, the idea of one author or the artist as being a solitary creature was really the only idea that there was.

  Wendy Ewald

  Optimistic, Artist, Years

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• It's always been Apple's goal to ship something we were proud of and something people would be proud to own, and I think that's still true from thirty years ago.

  Michael Scott

  Thinking, Years, Apples

  "EXCLUSIVE: Interview With Apple's First CEO Michael Scott". Interview with Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com.au. May 25, 2011.

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• I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Years, Debt

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• There's ten of us, we've been best friends for thirty years. Ten guys. And their wives, and their kids, are all family now. I'm not big on keeping up on the phone, none of us are. Some guys I won't talk to for two months and then you pick up the phone and hear, "So, anyway." There's no guilt or where have you been? or what's been going on? or why haven't we talked? There's an ease to it.

  George Clooney

  Kids, Phones, Years

  "George Clooney: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 13, 2011.

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